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Creating blog articles from github issues. Not bad as an idea, but it creates a dependency between Github and your personal blog that I dislike.
The blog: https://github.com/Kerollmops/blog
A garden is something in-between a personal blog and a wiki. It’s a collection of evolving notes, essays, and ideas that aren’t strictly organised by their publication date. They’re inherently exploratory – posts are linked through contextual associations. They aren’t refined or complete – posts can be published as half-finished thoughts that will grow and evolve over time. They’re less rigid, less performative, and less perfect than the personal “blogs” we’re used to encountering on the web.
Here is why:
- there are also hundreds of blogs out there
- you're not an expert
- you are showing the world how stupid you are
- people noticizing your blog will trash it
On the other hand,
- it is notes to your future self
- release ideas that you have in your head
- learn to write and express ideas
- add a personal view
- writing about a subject can lead to being someone's hero some day.
- it's cool
- you can write whatever you want
In his 1959 classic, The Sociological Imagination, the great sociologist C. Wright Mills told students of the discipline:
As a social scientist, you have to … capture what you experience and sort it out; only in this way can you hope to use it to guide and test your reflection, and in the process shape yourself as an intellectual craftsman. But how can you do this? One answer is to set up a blog: there is joined personal experience and professional activities, studies underway, and studies planned. In this blog, you … will try to get together what you are doing intellectually and what you are experiencing as a person. here you will not be afraid to relate your experience directly to various works in progress. By serving as a check on repetitious work, your blog also enables you to conserve your energy. It also encourages you to capture ‘fringe thoughts’: various ideas which may be byproducts of everyday life, snatches of conversation overheard in the street, or, for that matter, dreams. Once noted, these may lead to more systematic thinking and lend intellectual relevance to more directed experience.
Old blogs disappears :/ That's why it is also hard to find the content of the 90s.
Proposal:
It is imperative for online writing (especially blogs) to have a long lifespan. We can currently read books from the 18th century with ease. It should be the same for online content from 30 years ago.
That's true: that threat doesn’t hold true for personal blogging.
Because we follow a person. That's all
It should be worth noting that I've been hyping myself up to make a public blog for about 4 years now. Unfortunately I have a habit letting my perfectionism get the best of me, and allowing myself to procrastinate things indefinitely. I realized I needed to just bite the bullet and get this thing started.
It took me 2 years and now I am writing once per year ... I have to write again because it's so damn cool. Oh wait, there is also shaarli :)
It can be useful to generate an HTML view of entries :)
The whole point of #100DaysToOffload is to challenge you to publish 100 posts on your personal blog in a year.
A way to understand Mastodon.
2 things:
- Today I Learned - TIL
- Write about your projects
I recommend adding “write about it” to your definition of “done” for anything that you build or create.
Integrate a code sandbox with live edit functions directly in pages. I am totally for it ! :D
Here is a guide
And I am migrating from Pelican to Astro x)
because it is faster than a static website... because everything is in the RAM.
Its static blog is composed of:
- free hosting (github pages)
- static site generation (jekyll)
- layouts ( HTML and CSS)
- basic analytics (goatcounter)
- adding and editing content (sublime text)
Things I want to do:
- Content related
- Design related
- IndiWeb related
- Have a guestbook page where people can send Webmentions to to sign it: example
Resume signals value from human to corporations.
Blog singals value from human to human.
People used to be defined by where they work, and now they’re defined by their knowledge, capabilities, and opinions.
And because of that, the resume is no longer the main artifact of your public worth. The replacement is [...] having a domain name where you put all your stuff. A digital avatar of yourself.
Le blog de Korben a 18 ans
The second lesson I have learned is that when I first sit down to write I must allow the flood of ideas to flow out of me onto the page without worrying about what is coming out. If I pause to correct grammar, spelling, or sentence structure, I risk losing sight of the vision that created the words in the first place.
One of the things that makes me happiest about running a self-hosted blog is that I can write whatever I want, and anyone can read it--assuming they can find it.
So true. I don't allow myself to write on my blog, putting much time on these readings on RSS feeds, then posting them on the shaarli.
Some users are not aware that by downloading RSS feeds literally every two minutes, they are hogging Internet bandwidth and wasting resources.
I am refreshing my RSS feeds or twice a day :/ I didn't they were such impatient people up there. Everything exist on the Internet though.
Personal website owners who endure may do so because they learn to view their work as a way of providing a needed service or information.
Example of lehollandaisvolant, ....
Perhaps we should focus less on the number of visitors we draw to our websites and more on our efforts to create something of value, something that will make others just a little wiser, just a little freer, or just a little happier.
That's why I don't even have a Mattomo instance
I suspect those whose websites endure the longest are those who find joy in coding, writing, and communicating with their readers.
Seems true to me too.
Knowing that I am not alone is a source of motivation for continued writing, not in the belief that by doing so I will change the world, but simply because I am encouraged to feel that someone should be writing about our shared concerns, someone who is not receiving a paycheck or a campaign contribution for doing so.
It is also a very easy way to share on the Internet. And this feeling to be able to reach so many people, or to make content available according to your own wishes is a great equanimity.