Dynamic Link Previews for Linking Things

When I decided to create a custom theme for my blog I decided I wanted to take over the share preview images that micro.blog generates by default. I didn’t find any of the options really appealing to me so I decided to build my own cards service that is a lightweight Lambda function that serves preview images exactly how I want them. I quickly realized I could use this for more than just my blog and I could embed custom logic for different sites I wanted to use it for. Today I moved Linking Things to a 3D spatial galaxy view of my 16,500+ links I’ve collected. I love it. If you want, load the site and hit the “full screen” button and you just fly around from site to site in my bookmarks. I decided to create a custom share preview for the site that actually uses the graph data that the site is built off of and shows real data about how the link is connected. I just had to share these examples. You can link from each to the actual link on the site. The whole sky. This is the base every…