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| title | description | date | tags | synopsis | mastodon_id | |
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| Obligatory Site Updates Post | All the new stuff I've done on this website lately. | 2024-09-29 |
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All the new stuff I've done on this website lately. | 113222650648457852 |
Here are a few new (and not-so-new, but good to know) features I've built for my humble website:
A Sitemap for Humans
I now have a (human readable) sitemap, linked in the footer of each page, for easier discovery of the pages that aren't listed in the menu at the top, such as colophon, and privacy pages, which are now separate from the about page.
I haven't automated this yet, mainly because I'm not sure how to best go about it; if any Eleventy enthusiasts out there have any suggestions, please let me know by commenting below using Mastodon!
New Buttons
Some pages now have buttons beneath their spiel that link to relevant pages that a reader may find useful. For instance, colophon, and privacy, and contact pages, are linked from the about page; /blog now links to tags, and…
My Blogroll
If you've been on the internet for a while (and I mean a while), you may remember the humble blogroll: a list of blogs followed by the author of the blog you're reading, provided both as a benefit to readers and to help share traffic with other people who write interesting stuff.
As I am close to entirely removed from corporate social media, I get my news predominantly from my newsreader, which I very much enjoy going through each morning, often with a warm cup of tea. My blogroll contains most of the feeds I subscribe to, and it even provides a convenient and very neatly formatted .opml file, which you can (in theory) use to subscribe to my entire blogroll at once by importing it into your feed reader. (I very much hope it works as I haven't actually tested it, but do let me know if you try it.)
The blogroll links to both the main website and the feed for every entry, and contains a short description for each. Please bear in mind that I have been adding these as I discover them, so if it turns out I've listed the blog of someone who says mean things to kittens or something, please tell me so that I can remove their entry.
The blogroll and .opml are automated, because there are an awful lot of feeds there and I have no interest in writing all that markup myself. If you'd like to know how that's done, you can check out the repo.
A Feed for Everyone
I write about all sorts of things, and I fully recognize that people who come here for posts such as The Secrets of Scrumptious Seitan may not be especially interested in posts like How to Transfer Files Securely with the “scp” Command, so I configured individual feeds for each tag.
What this means is if you go to the blog page, click on "Topics" to reach the tags page, and click on a tag, you'll find an RSS icon next to the title linked to a feed that only contains posts marked with that tag. Convenient, right?