To-do list for this site

Render to markdown

Instead of to HTML. Many benefit in terms of having better hugo hooks.

Emi Tanaka, Scientific and Technical Blogging: Radix vs. Blogdown. There are some rendering glitches when I include it here, not sure why?

update: hugodown supports this.

So does quarto.

What might break for me?

figures lose caption?
rename files, purge .html
theme updates
test docs r.Rmd and levy_processes.Rmd.
knitpages.R, knit and hugodownify.py are points to intervene.
michael toth’s solution shows this is possible.
Changing your Blogdown Workflow - Dr. Mowinckel
blogdown 1.0 suggests the .Rmarkdown outut format
Wannabe Rstats-fu: How Not To Knit All Rmd Files With Blogdown

Maths

mail subscription

link styling

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

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.

link my socials

twitter/github icons

Comments

Embedded serverless comments would be nice comments.

site metadata

HEAD documents the recommended tags for maximising social spread and suchlike from a website.

Webmentions

theming and integration work required.

ActivityPub

A.k.a. ActivityStreams 2.0. I think this standard is real and is sometimes claimed to subsume comments and webmentions 🤷‍♂ It looks like there is variable effort involved in enabling the suite of features and widges here. Verifying my id in ActivityPub is chill. All the mutual sharing of data involves cryptographical signing etc. Out of scope for now.

better code highlighting

New themes method This is via highlight.js; I could use the server-side pandoc-based solutions such as pygments or chroma. Explanations of those by Maëlle Salmon. These look harder to integrate into Rmarkdown posts, but ok for native hugo.

Also code folding.

steal tricks from gwern

good tricks

especially regarding linkrot

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?

publications

Let google know my publications.

Searching

Get a search I can link to?

Fix safari search styling.

Go to page bundle structure

A lot of work; minimal gain for blogdown AFAICS

Images

halftone This pure CSS one is nice.

media pipeline

Via page bundles?

Laura Kalbag – Processing Responsive Images with Hugo
Forestry.io, How To Use Hugo’s Image Processing With Forestry
Clayson Design
Mert Bakır, Image Processing in Hugo

I would need to restructure my content for that

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

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

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

Link to tag indexes

TBD

Sort by certainty etc

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.

Fonts

TBD: choose a monospace font so I can control the size better. I’m currently using Jetbrains mono, which is fine, but not perfect. I would like a serifed code font that was for the cheezy old-timey typewriter feel, but also with low ambiguity of custom characters, and that supported a good range of characters. These desiderata do not seem to be available in free monospace fonts.

Other nice header fonts?

Credit font designers.

background

Also, paper texture? many seamless paper textures here

margin notes

https://gertjanvandenburg.com/blog/how_i_made/
hugo-tufte is a fairly active hugo theme for this. AFAICT it needs deeper support for hugo shortcodes than RMarkdown has
https://github.com/nstrayer/tuftesque seems more blogdown-focused
rmarkdown has built-in support but it’s crazy