What's New
July 2024
Added recipe search
It’s been two years since the last major update to Osomatsu, and with a break between jobs I’ve finally had a bit of time to introduce a feature that my wife and others have been suggesting for ages – recipe search!
Hopefully it’s all very self-explanatory, just go to the search page and type in what you’re after.
For now I’ve kept the search simple. It is first doing a lookup against recipe titles, ranked by popularity, and then doing a lookup against ingredient lists and again ranking them by popularity. This does introduce some quirks for certain ingredients like "chicken" which will also capture (perhaps unexpectedly) recipes that use chicken stock, but it does the job!
Other bits...
To accommodate an easy to find search link, I’ve made some changes to the site navigation. The site menu is now at the bottom of the page, and when you click the "menu" link at the top of the page (if logged in), it should scroll you down to the menu nicely. Once there, you can use the ⤒ top link to go back up to the top of the page quickly.
That’s all for now. Hope I can introduce some new features before 2026!
— Tom
June 2022
Join Osomatsu today
I’ve been chipping away over the last few months to create a registration flow for good folk like you to be able to join Osomatsu and share your recipes with friends and family.
I’m super excited to announce that you can now do
exactly that!
(also super excited that someone other than me
might use this)
The registration flow starts when you click this button
Once you’ve entered some basic details for your requested account, an email will be sent straight to my inbox for me to onboard you as quick as a I can. As I said above, I'm very excited that someone else might use Osomatsu so you won’t be waiting long!
Once onboarded, an email will be sent to you with a link to secure your account with your chosen password and then you will be logged in. After that, the world is your oyster recipe.
I can’t wait to see what you share. Thank you for considering to use Osomatsu.
— Tom
April 2022
Publishing recipes
New recipes will now begin in an unpublished mode.
Unpublished recipes are only viewable by you, no other user will be able to see them. You can consider an unpublished recipe as private or perhaps a draft to be crafted until you’re ready to share the recipe with the world.
Ready to share your recipe with the world?
You probably noticed the button at the top of the edit recipe page. Click that and your recipe will be open for all to see.
You could even use the new button on the recipe’s page to easily send it to a friend.
Published the recipe too soon?
No problem. That publish button on the edit recipe page has since become an button. Go for it.
Other changes
- A new button for the recipe page
- This very what’s new page
— Tom