To-do list for this site

1 Migrate to Quarto

• callouts interact badly with float figures

• form formatting broke again

• does it still work if I move theme_images to _theme?

• migrate comments

• reference section shoudl be collapsed per default

• figures

  • caption formatting is suspect
  • float images now bump sections, e.g http://localhost:4321/notebook/epistemic_community.html

• remove blue styling such as mouseover links and form buttons blech

• site maps, are they submitted?

• use utility Shortcodes, esp meta

• use Callout Blocks. There are five types of callouts, including: note, tip, warning, caution, and important. ## gives them a title.

• templates:

  • site title should not be first in page titles
  • display content warnings and audiences
  • reinstate usability ratings
  • style extra metadata better
  • don’t display ratings on listing pages
  • navbar text too pale incredibly, working out how to fix this took literally hours. I’m not sold on this bootswatch thing.

• stop github action, publish manually

• invoke my site scripts in the scripts function

  • post render for search index

• check thesis artefacts downloadable

• exploit about page layout

• be citeable

• index should list all content; no one cares about the blog/notebook distinction

• check redirects still work

• reinstate keybase proof using site resources

• improve deploy

• check .bib files downloadable

• why does “about” appear twice in the everything index?

• generate .bib download links

• more compact citation style

• does contact form work?

  • style form better

• do embedded HTML+JS on pages work?

• google analytics with opt-out and other webberies https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-tools.html#cookie-consent

• How should I mark some files as scripts?

• search

  • go to algolia search https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-search.html

  • actually upload index? https://www.algolia.com/doc/guides/sending-and-managing-data/send-and-update-your-data/

  • fix algolia search

  • canonical URLs not possible with current quarto and netlify pretty URLs

    • https://docs.netlify.com/routing/redirects/
    • https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/consolidate-duplicate-urls
    • https://blog.maximeheckel.com/posts/seo-mistakes-i-have-made-and-how-i-fixed-them/

  • submit events to algolia

  • should I kill the crawler?

  • make search submission a post

• related content

• add separator images before and after block elements with special tags

• suppress drafts using Conditional Content

2 Promote

• A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox

  As you start routing information and putting out blog posts, you will begin to accumulate connections. Useful information will start to stream toward you, turning you into a small hub yourself. This will allow you to collect and curate information and route it back out, which will allow even more people to connect to you, in a flywheel that lets you do increasingly useful and good work. I especially enjoy it when intelligent people attack me; I then invite them to comment on upcoming drafts.

  You can also post to subreddits and forums, like LessWrong or the SlateStarCodex subreddit, that act like intellectual cafés on the internet. Pasting your posts there, it is easy to find community when you are starting out; you don’t have to scream into the void.

3 Maths

• serverside mathjax
• Mathjax update

4 mail subscription

• ForBo7 // Salman Naqvi – Adding Subscriptions to a Quarto Site is a good run-through
• How to find and engage your readers
• Feedrabbit: RSS and Atom web feed to email service
• MailerLite
• Ghost integrations: official apps, plugins & tools

Style using…

• bigfoot.js?

5 Reader mode does not work

Why does body text vanish in reader mode? unsure.

• https://stackoverflow.com/a/40747529
• Enabling “reading mode” on your website

6 link styling

• all the heading metadata on overview pages should be a link.

7 Social interactions

Some of these are hard to do with my static site — which is to say, hard like ordinary dynamic websites are, not frictionless like my humble static site is.

8 Webmentions

theming and integration work required.

9 steal tricks from gwern

good tricks

especially regarding linkrot

10 citations

render citations as data? Or at least link to the .bib file? See how radix does this?

export coins metadata?

or highwire metadata

Why are citations showing up as a sub div of the last div? Can I change that?

make an explicit header?

11 Searching

Get a search I can link to?

Fix safari search styling.

12 Go to page bundle structure

A lot of work; minimal gain for blogdown AFAICS.

13 Images

halftone This pure CSS one is nice.

• Image Processing and SVGs
• I Just Wanted to Serve Images · blog.jemu.name
• Bookdown is Neat and Automation is Hard · blog.jemu.name

14 Tracker

I would also like to display most popular pages; that would be fun. I was going to use the netlify analytics api for that but I gave up because

1. They did not introduce the API after a year of waiting
2. Their traffic tracking data was swamped by content indexing bots.

If I want to work around in the mean time, Jim Nielson shows how.

15 Sort by certainty etc

16 Look nice

I made my own theme; it has various wonderful features such as being simple and easy to understand. However, it has the problem that I am no graphical designer.