128.io Blog

Blog Entries

• 2021-01-17: inotify for efficient builds
• 2021-12-18: Starting a blog with plain HTML

Suggested Sections

• Database Schema (for applications)
• Routes (for applications)

Potential Blog Entries

• v2: YML, Markdown, and expanded build commands
• v3: Front matter, project pages

Future Enhancements

• Add section for links in template
• Create an RSS Feed of entries
• Add support for unpublished entries
• Better (any) SEO
• Related Entries (manually curated)
• Inotify for instant builds during development
• Mobile Layout
• Cache to allow building only changed files
• New Design
  • Look at other sites for inspiration
• When moving to another "iteration" of a project, archive the old notes as a post.
• Split into "CMS", "Blog" projects to separate code and content
• Add misc pages (About, Resume)
• Update deploy to translate copy links to objects, use symlinks for resources for lower disk usage
• Minify generated HTML
  • Strip Comments
• Compress HTML (gzip served by nginx?)

Design Inspiration

• https://www.brandons.me/blog/bagel-bites
  • Visible anchor links after each heading
• https://gummibeer.dev/blog/2022/end-of-an-era/
  • Dashed underline for links
• https://sinnbeck.dev/posts/facades-are-singletons
  • Blurred source code to provide context on hover
• http://www.csszengarden.com/217/
  • Colors

Thoughts

What are the steps that would need to be taken for generating the static pages?

• Determine pages to render