Title: Blog update 2021 | |
Author: Solène | |
Date: 15 September 2021 | |
Tags: blog life | |
Description: | |
Hello, | |
This is a simple announce to gather some changes I made to my blog | |
recently. | |
* The web version of the blog now display the articles list grouped by | |
year when viewing a tag page, previously it was displaying the whole | |
article contents and I think tags were unusable this way, although it | |
was so because initially I had two articles when I wrote the blog | |
generator and it made sense. | |
* The RSS file was embedding the whole HTML content of each article, I | |
switched to use the article original plain text format, HTML should | |
only be used in a Web browser and RSS is not meant to be dedicated for | |
web browsers. I know this is a step back for some users but many users | |
also appreciated this move and I'm happy to not contribute at putting | |
HTML everywhere. | |
* Most texts are now written using the gemtext format, served raw on | |
gemini and gopher and converted into HTML for the http version using | |
gmi2html python tool slightly modified (I forgot where I got it | |
initially). I use gemtext because I like this format and often forced | |
me to rethink the way I present an idea because I had to separate links | |
and code from the content and I'm convinced it's a good thing. No more | |
links named "here" or inlined code hard to spot. | |
If you think changes could be done on my blog, on the web / gopher or | |
gemini version please share your ideas with me, it's also the | |
opportunity for me to play with the code of the blog generator cl-yag | |
that I absolutely love. | |
I have been publishing a lot more this year, I enjoy much more sharing | |
my ideas or knowledge this way than I used to and writing is also the | |
opportunity for me to improve my English and when I compare to the | |
first publications I'm proud to see I improved the quality over time (I | |
hope so at least). I got more feedback for strangers reading this | |
blog, by mail or IRC and I'm thankful to them, they just drop by to | |
tell me they like what I write or that I made a mistake so I can fix | |
it, it's invaluable and allows me to make new connections to people I | |
would never have reached otherwise. | |
I should try to find some time and motivation to get back at my Podcast | |
publications now but I find it a lot harder to speak than to write some | |
text, maybe it would be an habit to take. We will see soon. |