Tag: meta
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My newly-revamped personal site has an almost full suite of slash pages; something I'd been meaning to do for a while:
Still no /now, but I'll get that sorted someday, perhaps!
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Styling :visited links using hue-rotation
My new site theme offers a :visited link style, but for convenience it's based on a CSS hsl-transformation. Here's how it works...
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After months of minor tweaks, on-and-off, I finally bit the bullet and hit "publish" on my new theme for DanQ.me. It's not perfect; it's got all kinds of bugs... but what's the point of having a personal webite if you can't trash it once in a while with an ill-advised "fun" rework, right?
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Screenshot of DanQ.me with comic avatars of Dan, pride colours, and a 'fun'-feeling theme (plus semi-retro 'under construction' banner!).
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How do people blog for thirty years without running out of things to say?
My fellow volunteer Oliver Earl has been picking up on his blogging and asks, with reference to my archives... how do people blog for thirty years without running out of things to say? And then he comes to the correct conclusion:
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The IndieWeb Is Punk Manifesto
Jim Mitchell shared The IndieWeb Is Punk Manifesto. And it's excellent.
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Re: Please let me interact with your blog post!
Mike lists his preferred ways to interact with blog posts he sees in his feed reader. I look at where my blog satisfies his list, and also suggest a few other contact mechanisms that I, or others, might facilitate.
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Reply to: Who knows that you blog?
David (of Forking Mad+) asked "who knows that you blog?". I join the increasing list of bloggers who've answered his question.
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I took the dog out for a walk from the Chicory House yesterday. At one point, we found ourselves on a familiar-looking footpath: I couldn't place exactly why I'd been there before. Geocaching, possibly: I couldn't see any on the map but perhaps they'd been since archived?
Fortunately, I maintain a personal tracklog of virtually everywhere I've been in the last decade or two, so I was able to run a quick query and discover that I'd walked out here on a geohashing expedition in 2024.
Personal location tracking continues to be awesome. Being able to both forwards-search ("where was I on this date?") and reverse-search ("when was I last within this area?") unlocks a wealth of aides mémoire that are otherwise hard to come by.
It's hard to sell people on the idea, probably because it's a slow-burner - you need lots of data before it starts to pay off! - but I still recommend it.
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100 Days to Offload × 7
I remain a huge fan of Kev Quirk's "100 Days To Offload" blogging challenge. And today... I just completed it for the seventh time!
Kev announced that he completed it again today, too. He uses a different metric to me - he counts "posts over a twelve month period", while I use a slightly more-restrictive subset of that: "posts in a calendar year", because it was easy for me to make a table out of in my blog stats.
After some discussion, Kev agreed that the earliest year I could claim for was 2020.
Personally, I feel like each of the hundred posts should occur on different days too. This is relevant to me, because sometimes I post multiple times in a day... but it's 100 days to offload, not 100 posts to offload, right?
Therefore, by my own restrictions... the soonest I could achieve the goal in a year would be the 100th day of the year. Right?
Which is today.
Which I just did. 🎉 -
Reply to: how do you find things you want to blog about?
august asked me how I find things I want to blog about, and I answered... in the form of a blog post, of course!
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Without Bloganuary
Bloganuary died since last time I took part in it (and I can speculate about why), but that didn't stop me writing something for every day in January 2026. Man, I've been blogging a lot lately in general... what's that about, eh?
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Inspired by a conversation with Elle (@e11e@mastodon.social), I expanded my FreshRSS-to-blogroll generator to support injecting 88×31 buttons (where I have them) for folks I follow.
There's still a way to go, but my blogroll's looking a little prettier as a result.
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Geocities Live
Geocities.live transforms any web page into a 90s-Geocities-style variant of itself, and it does a surprisingly good (if slightly "samey") job of it. Its take on DanQ.me got me thinking, though: are there things I can learn from 1990s web design and apply to the next generation of my theme?
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WordPress to ClassicPress
A few weeks ago I switched this blog to ClassicPress, a fork of WordPress. Here's a deep dive into how (and why) I did it, as well as a look into what my experience so-far has been with this (mostly-)cut-down version of the world's most popular CMS.
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Blog Questions Challenge
I must be the last blogger on Earth left to do Ava/Kev's 'Blog Questions Challenge'. Let's get to it.