About This Site
I wrote up the process and theory behind this website, but basically it’s an export and reformatting of my highlights and notes of my online (and some offline) reading (script here).
I use it to jostle loose ideas when I’m researching a particular problem in software design or writing topic. I usually either ask it for a random note or search by keyword.
Features
Posts and pages and notes can link to each other, and backlinks are shown when present. This allows for two-way linking of ideas.
Search (on the homepage and on a dedicated page) allows you to find anything without having to use an external search engine.
Pages and posts support table-of-contents rendering, metadata about citation/sourcing, Readwise integration, h-card markup (for webmention support), and more.
Infrastructure
The site theme was originally forked from Simply Jekyll and has slowly been rewritten and refactored over time.
This site’s source code lives on Github and is served using GitHub Pages.
This website is statically generated using Jekyll from a set of Markdown files.
Search is powered by lunrjs. Photo galleries and zoom are powered by PhotoSwipe. The site fonts are IBM Plex. Network graph views are powered by vis-network. Popularity is tracked by Goatcounter - public stats are available at /analytics. Comments are powered by Cusdis. Serverless scripts (e.g. for generating insights) are hosted/run by Val Town.
You can read about everything else I use to build things at /uses.
Changelog
Unreleased
- better h-card markup for posts
/projectspage/nowpage (ref)- Random image on homepage
- podcast rendering
- move content markup into liquid filters instead of liquid logic
2024-09-07
- Add conversation support to insight page
2024-09-06
- Add insight generation for posts and tags
2024-07-16
- Add lazy-loading support for images in post lists
2024-07-13
2024-07-04
2024-06-22
- Switching off Tinylitics and over to Goatcounter for analytics
2024-06-16
- Post to mastodon via GitHub action build pipeline (POSSE)
- Add comments via Cusdis
- Add a guestbook page
2024-06-01
- Added Tinylitics as an experiment
2024-05-27
- Render search results statically
2024-05-26
- Add “post via GitHub issue” feature
2024-03-02
- Display “recently read” and “reading inbox” articles from Reader API
2024-02-28
/usespage (ref)- podroll and blogroll posts/tags
2024-02-19
- Network/map display of all posts (to find edges of the garden needing weeding)
- Network display on each post (to walk the garden path)
- Walking path display on the network (based on session)
2024-02-17
- Print and PDF styling of posts
2024-02-03
- Enabled PWA offline capabilities
2024-02-01
- Add “Feeling Lucky” mode to the search page.
2024-01-24
- optimize images for web sizes/rendering
2024-01-15
- Redesign the site to double-column layout
- Add notepad to posts and pages
- Introduced seasons
2024-01-06
- Featured image support on posts
- Migrate the blog content from Ghost into this site
- Create a category page for the blog
- create a category for books
- create a category for concerts
- create a category for movies
- create a category for desks
- create a category for talks
/subscribepage/narropage/contactpage
2023-12-29
- Photo gallery and zoom support
- Linking books via Amazon ASIN (though we hate Amazon, it’s all we can get from Readwise’s API)
2023-12-27
- New theme implemented (major simplification)
- Update link styling to suppprt
visitedstate
2023-06-22
- Implemented decimal index
2023-06-09
- Printable styling and QRCodes
2023-05-01
- Highlight text fragments in outbound links
2023-03-05
- Send Webmentions with GitHub Actions
2023-03-04
- Switch to GitHub Actions for build
2023-03-01
- Add Webmention display support
2023-02-16
- Styled with Tufte.css
2023-02-11
- Added Random Note page
2023-02-11
- Search-via-URL-query support
2023-01-11
- Tags added to search results
2023-02-09
- Forked from Original Theme