To-do list for this site

render better

blogdown::build_site(build_rmd = "timestamp")

or even

options(blogdown.files_filter = blogdown::timestamp_filter)
blogdown::build_site(build_rmd = TRUE)

should I smooth this by switching to cutting-edge blogdown?

remotes::install_github('rstudio/blogdown')

render to markdown

Instead of to HTML. Many benefit in terms of having better hugo hooks. michael toth’s solution.

update: hugodown supports this.

figures lose caption
!\[(.*)\]$/images/([^[]*)$ to ![$1](../images/$2) updates horribly broken paths
rename files, purge .html
theme updates
test docs r.Rmd and levy_processes.Rmd.
knitpages.R, knit and hugodownify.py are points to intervene.
Server-side KaTeX With Hugo: Part 2 - graeme phillips posting
The Best Way to Support LaTeX Math in Markdown with MathJax - Protect math as code, and remove those code tags via JavaScript later - Yihui Xie | 谢益辉
Math expressions do not require protection in backticks · Issue #466 · rstudio/blogdown
Adding R Markdown documents of other output formats - A minimal example website using blogdown
keep_md option not used by blogdown::html_page · Issue #445 · rstudio/blogdown

general

mail subscription

link styling

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

Better HTML HEAD metadata

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

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.

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

For new themes, via https://bookdown.org/yihui/blogdown/templates.html#how-to

Alternatively for my theme it is just in the config. https://github.com/rstudio/blogdown/issues/360#issuecomment-457395421

these are both via highlight.js; I could use the server-side pandoc-based solutions such as pygments or chroma. Explanations of those by Maëlle Salmon : https://ropensci.org/technotes/2020/04/30/code-highlighting/ These look harder to integrate into Rmarkdown posts, but ok for native hugo https://gohugo.io/content-management/syntax-highlighting/

Also code folding.

steal tricks from gwern

https://www.gwern.net/About

especially regarding linkrot

Eliminate extraneous javascript

Mathjax in particular.

https://psun.me/post/hello-blog/ https://bookdown.org/yihui/blogdown/templates.html#how-to https://www.gwern.net/About https://github.com/pkra/mathjax-node-page/

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?

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

media pipeline

Via page bundles?

I would need to restructure my content for that

Images in head metadata

I wonder if there is a pandoc pipe that could make that easier, or if I should do it with a python markdown parser e.g. with a TreeProcessor, or the syntax tree-friendly Mistletoe. Easiest: parse HTML, if needed parse md to HTML.

Tracker

I would also like to display most popular pages; that would be fun. But I will wait for netlify to release their API rather than getting prematurely excited about that.

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

NEtlify API spec https://open-api.netlify.com/ Python client https://pypi.org/project/openapi-core/ community https://community.netlify.com/t/support-guide-understanding-and-using-netlifys-api/160

Mathjax update

https://www.mathjax.org/#gettingstarted

Link to tag indexes

TBD

Sort by certainty etc

AMP

Google’s accelerated mobile pages. Seems a huge effort. https://themes.gohugo.io/tags/amp/ https://gohugo-amp.gohugohq.com/

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.

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. Also, paper texture? https://www.wildtextures.com/free-textures/seamless-paper-texture/

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