To-do list for this site

convert to Quarto

integrate mailing list

• bigfoot.js

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.

Render to markdown

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

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.
• Dr. Mowinckel, Changing your Blogdown Workflow
• blogdown 1.0 suggests the .Rmarkdown outut format
• Wannabe Rstats-fu: How Not To Knit All Rmd Files With Blogdown

Maths

• rmarkdown supports new maths backends
• graeme phillips posting, Server-side KaTeX With Hugo: Part 2
• serverside mathjax
• Mathjax update

mail subscription

• How to find and engage your readers
• Feedrabbit: RSS and Atom web feed to email service
• MailerLite
• Ghost integrations: official apps, plugins & tools

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.

Webmentions

theming and integration work required.

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?

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.

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

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.

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.