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Using Netlify Analytics to Build a List of Popular Posts Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web. blog.jim-nielsen.com [1] This is a sick feature of Jim’s blog, I am really inspired by this. I am not sure how to do it for my own. I honestly think the easiest non locked in way would be to just use google search console results. It’s definitely a different way to think about it, but most of my traffic is coming from google search, so it would be a pretty good ballpark estimate. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2020/using-netlify-analytics-to-build-list-of-popular-posts/ [2]: /thoughts/

605: Jim Nielsen on Subversive URLs, Blogging + AI, and Design Engineers Jim Nielsen joins us to about URLs and linking as the new subversive way to maintain the web, paying for news in Canada, should content creators be worried about AI, the case for design engineers, … ShopTalk · shoptalkshow.com [1] An absolute fantastic episode about blogging, thinking about a web1.0 kind of world today, and what it means moving forward. Web 1.0 is robust, you own your own destiny, you own your data, you can do what you want. There is no platform to tell you what you can and cannot do. But the future web is stealing your data to build AI models, spam sites are duplicating your content and stealing your SEO. You may or may not care, but at the end whether you get traffic or now you own your web 1.0 sites. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://shoptalkshow.com/605/ [2]: /thoughts/

![[None]] First I need to fetch my thoughts from the api, and put it in a local sqlite database using sqlite-utils. fthoughts () { # fetch thoughts curl 'https://thoughts.waylonwalker.com/posts/waylonwalker/?page_size=9999999999' | sqlite-utils insert ~/.config/thoughts/database2.db post --pk=id --alter --ignore - } Now that I have my posts in a local sqlite database I can use sqlite-utils to enable full text search and populate the full text search on the post table using the title message and tags columns as search. sthoughts () { # search thoughts # sqlite-utils enable-fts ~/.config/thoughts/database2.db post title message tags # sqlite-utils populate-fts ~/.config/thoughts/database2.db post title message tags sqlite-utils search ~/.config/thoughts/database2.db post "$*" | ~/git/thoughts/format_thought.py | bat --style=plain --color=always --language=markdown } alias st=sthoughts Now I am ready to search my thoughts, which is a tiny blog format that I created mostly for leaving my own personal comment on web pages, so most of them have a link to some other online content, and their title is based on the authors title. [1] [2] Note This post is a thought [3]. It...

External Link X (formerly Twitter) · twitter.com [1] Most bloggers on my twitter blog right into a file that goes on git [2]. I kinda expected to have more database folk. I have my blog in markdown on git and the editing experience is top notch. I can just find files edit them in MY EDITOR, push them and I got a post. I am running thoughts in a sqlite database with a fastapi [3] backend, and holy crap the instant nature of posting feels so much better. Both sides have good points. Note This post is a thought [4]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://twitter.com/_WaylonWalker/status/1734387536716308693 [2]: /glossary/git/ [3]: /fastapi/ [4]: /thoughts/

External Link tushar.lol [1] Nice message by @tusharsadhwani [2]. Write it down. You had to dig deeper than face value at something. Write it down. You had to combine multiple pages of docs. Write it down. Someting was simply not obvious to you at first and it took someone else to give you that ah ha moment. Write it down. You had a small discovery that had a marginal impact on your day. Write it down. A blog does not have to be a Blog, it can be small meaningful posts. There are absolutely no rules. If you think you are going to end up with too many posts, that is a solvable problem, make a search, curate your favorite posts, make multiple feeds. At the end of the day. Write it down. This post itself is a thought, the smallest component to my blogging strategy. Write it down. Note This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://tushar.lol/post/write-a-blog/ [2]: https://twitter.com/sadhlife [3]: /thoughts/

Converting markdown posts to pdf on ubuntu takes a few packages from the standard repos. I had to go through a few stack overflow posts, and nothing seemed to have all the fonts and packages that I needed to convert markdown, but this is what ended up working for me. Installing all the packages # [1] sudo apt install \ pandoc \ texlive-latex-base \ texlive-fonts-recommended \ texlive-extra-utils \ texlive-latex-extra \ texlive-xetex Using pandoc to convert markdown to a pdf # [2] # older versions of pandoc, I needed this one on ubuntu 18.04 pandoc pages/til/convert-markdown-pdf-linux.md -o convert-markdown-pdf.pdf --latex-engine=xelatex # newer versions of pandoc, I needed this one on ubuntu 21.04 pandoc pages/til/convert-markdown-pdf-linux.md -o convert-markdown-pdf.pdf --pdf-engine=xelatex [3] Here is an image of what converting this article over to a pdf looks like. The raw markdown is here [4]. References: [1]: #installing-all-the-packages [2]: #using-pandoc-to-convert-markdown-to-a-pdf [3]: https://images.waylonwalker.com/convert-markdown-pdf-linux-result.png [4]: https://waylonwalker.com/convert-markdown-pdf-linux.md