Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites • Hacker News Board

Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by ksec » Sun, Jun 30, 2024, 10:15 AM UTC

mrb wrote: post #270

One 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…

Exactly this. This page only downloads 7K, it could have 100 times the links it would still only be 700K.

Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by meribold » Sun, Jun 30, 2024, 3:02 PM UTC

knorker wrote: post #251

Forcing opening in a new tab can go die in a fire. I don't understand how browsers even support that. It's so abused. If I wanted it in a new tab, I'll bloody well open it in a new tab myself. The feature is right there. Don't overrule the user. That should be illegal. Now instead i click, have to go back, close the old tab, and history is wiped. Thanks for nothing.

I tried figuring out whether Firefox can be made to never open a new tab in response to a normal left click on a link. The advice I found is setting `browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction` to 0 and `browser.link.open_newwindow` to 1 in about:config [1]. But it works a little too well: clicking on a link outside of Firefox also no longer opens a new tab.

[1]: https://superuser.com/questions/260129/open-link-in-the-same...

Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by sedev » Tue, Jul 02, 2024, 10:46 PM UTC

patio11 wrote: post #311

andai wrote: post #216

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hadn't heard of patio11's points against it. So I looked it up. https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/content-m... Is this the man responsible for the popularity of dateless blogs? (I tried to check the date on the post but... alas! ;) Just kidding, we still have the Internet Archive (for now) so I am able to get the same information ("2014") in a much less convenient way... (I suppose my willingness t…

A commanding percentage of all citations of me on e.g. Twitter will apologize to the user's own audience for the age of the piece, in a way which is obviously suboptimal. For examples, see this thread: https://x.com/patio11/status/1234141833661440001

I'm glad your proposed solution was "Spend a few hours monkeying around in Jekyll to make dates radically less prominent [and] somehow alter the URL structure to take them out of URLs" — my conscience is repulsed by the thought of removing the date information entirely. It should be there for people who are actively seeking it out.

Re: Microfeatures I love in blogs and personal websites

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Post by Aachen » Wed, Jul 03, 2024, 10:12 AM UTC

iamwil wrote: post #303

The microfeature I like is when posts have the full date. Blog authors want their content to be evergreen so they try to exclude it. Context is essential for me to interpret the perspective, especially for technical content. I end up having to go to the internet archive to see an estimate of when they wrote it anyway.

What I find so weird is that this is omitted from scientific papers as well. It's like not giving it a title (you just have to read its contents to see if you are interested in it) or omitting the number of study participants (who cares about the N, you just have to reproduce it to see if it's still relevant)