Posts tagged: blogging

💭 Markdown's biggest hater | Knut Melvær - YouTube

2025-05-10T00:52:59Z

Dang Strong takes against markdown here with a strong push for bespoke content models/structures. This idea is completely foreign and wild to me. I get it that markdown has its issues with flavors, add ons and what not, but overall its mostly transportable, its a skill that works most content sites and writing tools. I am so far on the other side that I seek out tools with markdown as an option and lean away from wsiwyg tools with specialized data formats on the backend.

I’ll end with, I’m also a dev that creates very simplified content and maybe seeing the backend of a site with lots of custom fields would be very eye opening for me.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 Email Address Obfuscation · Cloudflare Web Application Firewal...

2024-07-04T15:18:11Z

Email Address Obfuscation

By enabling Cloudflare Email Address Obfuscation, email addresses on your web page will be hidden from bots, while keeping them visible to humans. In fact, there are no visible changes to your webs...

Cloudflare Docs · developers.cloudflare.com

I recently started seeing email-decode.min.js show up on my blog posts, and I wondered what the heck ? I didn’t put it there. Turns out that cloudflare put it there from pages to safely serve email addresses for me.

inspecting the page without js running we can see that the mailto email is swapped out for email protected. Neat feature.

❯ curl --silent https://waylonwalker.com/diskcache-as-debounce/ | grep email
<a class="decoration-pink-500 hover:decoration-pink-300 hover:text-pink-100" href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#a4ccc1c8c8cbe4d3c5ddc8cbcad3c5c8cfc1d68ac7cbc9" rel="me"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="630b060f0f0c2314021a0f0c0d14020f0806114d000c0e">[email&#160;protected]</span></a>
<script data-cfasync="false" src="/cdn-cgi/scripts/5c5dd728/cloudflare-static/email-decode.min.js"></script></body>

Looking deeper into this article it looks like this feature comes from Scrape Shield and enabling Email Address Obfuscation.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 Welcome to RSS Club - daverupert.com

2024-06-24T17:12:16Z

Welcome to RSS Club

Congratulations on joining a secret society! If you’re reading this, that means my message has been transmitted successfully. This post is only available to you, Reader, through the ancient peer-...

daverupert.com · daverupert.com

Super cool idea, kinda breaking the rules by talking about it here, but Its a cool idea to throw out posts to the core audience. Apparently its been around for quite while Dave started in 2018.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 Blogmarks that use markdown

2024-06-10T02:47:52Z

Blogmarks that use markdown

I needed to attach a correction to an older blogmark (my 20-year old name for short-form links with commentary on my blog) today - but the commentary field has always …

Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net

Oh I kinda like the name blogmark, as opposed to thoughts like I have chose for the same thing. Aparantly Simon beat me to the punch by 20 years on this one.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 A Link Blog in the Year 2024

2024-06-10T02:44:35Z

A Link Blog in the Year 2024

Kellan Elliott-McCrea has started a new link blog: Like many people I’ve been dealing with the collapses of the various systems I relied on for information over the previous decades. …

Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net

THIS! is the same reasons that I built thoughts{.hoverlink}. Simon has bee a big inspiration along the way. He defintely changed the format of my posts as I watched him build out his quote posts.

Link blogging is a pleasantly low-pressure way of writing online. Found something interesting? Post a link to it, with a sentence or two about why it’s worth checking out.

Ditto! just make a post.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 A Link Blog in the Year 2024 | Kellan Elliott-McCrea: Blog

2024-06-10T02:40:20Z

Kellan brings some interesting thoughts on where the internet is headed in 2024. Interestingly I see myself headed in a similar direction. Feeling like I know just enough to say fuck it and build my own platform for me to me me, from thoughts{.hoverlink} where I link and make thoughts on posts like this, to reader{.hoverlink} which is my rss reader replacement that I wanted in 2013 when it was killedbygoogle

And particular with the collapse of the social spaces many of us grew up with, I feel called back to earlier forms of the Internet, like blogs, and in particular, starting a link blog.

Ai has really had quite the two sided effect since chatgpt launched and set the world ablaze. Suddenly you can get any answer you want as a custom fit blog post for free without effort, thus killing the traffic to any of these sites.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 Using Netlify Analytics to Build a List of Popular Posts - Jim...

2024-03-18T02:12:20Z

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

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.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 605: Jim Nielsen on Subversive URLs, Blogging + AI, and Design...

2024-03-15T14:42:30Z

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

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.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 Waylon Walker (getting focus'd fokais.com) on X: "Bloggers whe...

2023-12-15T14:53:33Z

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X (formerly Twitter) · twitter.com

Most bloggers on my twitter blog right into a file that goes on git. 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 backend, and holy crap the instant nature of posting feels so much better. Both sides have good points.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts

💭 Why YOU should write a blog

2023-12-13T01:08:51Z

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tushar.lol

Nice message by @tusharsadhwani.

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.

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This post is a thought. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts