This is a collection of links I stumbled across and found worth sharing. Also see the blogroll for links to blogs I regularly read.
I don’t know much about the technical background, but it’s kind of cool to see that a website can be hosted on a calculator (archive link).
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Zan in his recent article with tips on blogging:
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Jeffrey Zeldman’s daughter Ava wrote this really powerful essay called “The Shame”.
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Matthias Ott wrote this article called “Make it Personal” on CSS-Tricks.
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If you want to follow someone who regularly posts really aesthetic photos, make sure to follow Maique!
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Someone reminded me about reveal.js and I just took a look at the project site. It seems like reveal.js got a completely new website and a major update to version 4. I already used reveal.js for a few slides and liked it. However I didn’t consider it for my recent university presentations, because there I needed a PDF version of my slides (and the PDF export somehow didn’t work quite well with my past slides) and I didn’t really had the time to experiment. Next time I will try reveal.js again.
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It’s not that uncommon to come across a link to Twitter. But when opening the link in the browser, I am often told that the tweet has failed to load. This may be due to my Firefox settings, uBlock Origin or something else, but it was so annoying to have to click on “try again” that I installed an add-on that automatically redirects me from Twitter to Nitter. (See all my installed add-ons here.)
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I’m currently browsing the docs of the static site generator Eleventy (also known as 11ty). Although I prefer Go and I’m not a big JavaScript (and npm) fan for various reasons, I now consider Eleventy as an alternative to Hugo for my blog. I’m reaching the limits of Hugo more often and have to find complicated workarounds, because it’s almost impossible to add custom functionalities to Hugo. Eleventy is apparently very flexible and can be easily extended.
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According to this article by John Naughton on The Guardian, the first serious blog, Dave Winer’s blog Scripting News1, was born 25 years ago.
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