Feels like many of these features should just be built into the browser. Why can’t the browser assemble a table of contents based on header hierarchy? Isn’t that the point of the number in h1-h6? Why aren’t elements with ids easy to link to by default? Add a “copy-link-to” to the standard context menu in the browser. Etc.
Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites
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#272Earlier quoted context omitted.
This seems like evidence that there is a natural division and you're in the second camp, no?
The thing is, I do like to see details and I'm curious. That's why I check them in the first place. But we can't know beforehand whether it's useful or not. This is true for both footnote and side note, but for footnotes I can give it a glance to see if I want to read it thoroughly after reading the whole page, whereas for side notes, they are so easy and tempting to be seen. I feel the point of notes is that they do…
It would be nice if it were configurable where the notes appear, either foot side or end.
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What is a good guide on how to implement basic RSS functionality?
If you start from scratch, factor it in when deciding on a cms, platform or site generator. I think RSS/atom owes a lot to WordPress, which has it enabled by default since ages. When you want to add it retro-actively, the specifications are relatively straight forward and don't have many mandatory properties. RSS is a tad simple than Atom, but I'd probably rather go for Atom if I were to start over. https://www.rssbo…
Also, JSON Feed [0] is still better than nothing, many of the major RSS readers quietly support it, and does have the small advantage that JSON is much easier to work with in more platforms than XML today.
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You get less than a quarter the speed of dialup?
Some potential reasons - Remote backhaul / Satellite / Offshore - Subsidized/cheap wireless plan - Going over data cap, some carriers fall into a "safety" mode instead of charging you extra. I pay for 8gb/mo and would get throttled to similar speeds - Preference
> Preference
I don't kink shame, but slowed websites is an odd one.
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#275One micro feature I implement on my blog that I would like to see everywhere: a single-page index of all the posts, like at https://blog.zorinaq.com Don't paginate this. I want to see at a glance the titles of all the posts the author wrote. I want to be able to ctrl-f to search these titles. Heck, even if you had 100k titles they could still easily be shown on one page, as it would compress to 1 or 2MB transmitted o…
I added this on my blog (https://www.jeremykun.com/posts/) and I even find it useful as replacing 90% of the need for a search bar.
I haven't yet re-added a search feature since I migrated off Wordpress to hugo
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#276I really like "archive" and "tag" overviews. I don't want to scroll through every post in full as a way of finding an entry that interests me. Not really a blog but Hackaday on mobile is really bad at this. It's kind of hard to filter for interesting stuff without having something specific to search for.
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#277I would like a more elegant way to share what other bloggers I'm reading on my blog. The linked article doesn't provide much in the way of a solution here.
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#278One thing I added to my blog, which is less "micro" but still quite important I feel, is syndicating articles on social media. I don't think static site generators have good support for this, so I had to roll my own: https://www.jeremykun.com/shortform/2024-05-12-2028/
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Only really works if one article takes up most of the space. If there's tons of ads/coments below, the scrollbar would show less progress than actually is the case, and vice versa with wasted space above the article. But yes, the scrollbar ought to be enough.
That's a problem of ads/comments being even there.
I'm okay with comments being there, but I prefer the ones that hide them by default and have a link to load and expand the comment section.
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I was checking this on macOS. I have system scrollbar setting set to "automatic". Never changed scrollbar settings in Safari/Firefox, so it works like this for me by default, not sure why. But also I don't really get how people are fine with hiding the scrollbar, but prefering to see the progress meter always visible for text, when the scrollbar conveys mostly the same information (except some edge cases when the foo…
The scrollbar is per-page, the meter is per-article. Lots of blogs where I see a progress meter also have multiple articles on one page, sometimes even infinite scroll. I personally find the meters kind of superfluous, but they don't bother me since they usually stay out of the way.
Can you paste me an example website which uses a progress meter to track reading progress across multiple articles on one page?