Oh wow! Did not know that—I went off the original post by Greg and he mentioned to me after I sent him this link that someone looked at Common Crawl as well.
Either way, I updated both the git and the webpage to shout-out the week-before-this findings! I linked directly to your website, lmk if that's how you prefer it.
If it's bothering the eyes, like many more of other websites would, feel free to pull up your favorite browser's reader mode with your preferences. Cheers!
Yes, increase the font weight or contrast. You don't need to go all the way to #000 but a darker shade for body text would improve legibility significantly.
i think the white dots add another factor to my brain i have to decipher.
It doesn't make or break the site but its like id rather not have to deal with a pattern and text. Just make the background white.
If you really love it, keep it. I dont know anything. Im just a human
A companion to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46054879, we now had successfully recovered all the remaining li.st entries of Anthony Bourdain that were thought to be lost to time.
I was in the same boat for many years! Having started using org-mode for my website in 2018 [1] (just add index.org to the path to see the source), it grew into this massive pile of obscure gen and with my limited comfort level with lisp, turned into a scary smelling concoction of dozens of perl/sed/sh scripts that modified the output to fit my needs and have them do something fancy.
But then, really, sat down for about 48 hours on a lonely weekend when everyone was away and wrote a simple static site generator [2] that takes exact same files and produces output that I fully understand e2e, becoming the project I'm most proud of.
There are so many other generators I tried (hugo, jekyll, rails, asciidoctor, org-publish, astro), rolling up your own gives a sense of a stable foundation. Love your website! So clean. One thing that I'm thinking of adding (though I haven't touched my generator that much, I consider it "complete") is the dynamic execution of source code blocks.
First... Love your site (clean, fast, easy on the eyes, no need for JS to read). And your writing... yours is a proper blog. I used to feel bad about not being able to "just blog" like a real blogger, but I discovered that what I really like, is to write, in order to think. So, my blog has become part of my Big Reason to write (a lot) locally, and I am very happy to publish giant-ass blog posts; longform thinking.
Second... I went down a very similar path to custom site-buildin'.
Reject Wordpress because it's the 2020s -> reject anything mandating npm, gem, pip, lockfile web-scale dependency madness -> just hugo (single binary, wow) -> hugo + ox-hugo -> ouch, yet another custom templating language, and no backwards compatibility -> should I just Wordpress like it's 2005? -> NO, wait. Now I know programming. -> Voila! `shite` [1] (org-mode content -> pandoc -> plain HTML-and-CSS website [2]).
Third... Again... superfriend! 10000% same sentiment as yours:
> that takes exact same files and produces output that I fully understand e2e, becoming the project I'm most proud of
See my `shite`'s incredible documentation---animated GIFs and everything. Probably my second-best documented personal project (or tied for first-best with clojure-multiproject-example).
Things that give me inordinate joy:
- `shite` weighs in at ~300 Lines of Code (and why does it have 240 Github Internet Points, who are these insane people???)
- it is truly "serverless" - I don't run a local dev server even
- it hot-compiles and hot-refreshes on save - fully interactive local authoring (as well as live template modifications)
- since Feb 2022, it broke (only very slightly), after I distro upgraded Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to 24.04 LTS, because pandoc changed its default handling of line breaks, breaking layout of hand-indented "verse" text.
- Under 10 second full site rebuild, with 43 posts totalling over 100K words and over 40 more auto-generated pages (rss feed, various xmls, and per-tag blog post index pages). And I haven't even made it parallel yet. Probably will, if full rebuilds get longer than 30 seconds.
- The resulting site scores top marks on lighthouse and even image-heavy pages render fully in under a second on 4G mobile internet. (zero analytics, or tracking javascript).
It's hilarious --- I've done such sophisticated work for work, but this little piece of personal software is my pride and joy... It makes me grin almost every single day.
May The Source be with you too! _\\ // (yes, I love mixing metaphors)
Orgmode got me through college, research, and at work, it really is the perfected markup language that can do a lot more than just being a markup language. The extensibility and out of the box export to other formats makes it immediately useful for at least 80% of common tasks.
It has ingrained itself so deeply into my muscle memory that I built out a whole website builder [1] and extended the language to support all kinds of nice QoL things for my website [2].
Something that as the other commenter here noted—I can rely on orgmode for many decades to come.
And then taken the sentence out of context. His point is that even though there isn't a formal Org-mode syntax definition, there is an informal one in that all of the Org mode syntax elements are part of the Emacs Org-mode implementation. The latest Org-mode implementation /is/ the spec. This is in comparison with Markdown where there are numerous syntax definitions and no implementation which includes all elements and everything is a mess.
I have on gripe, that is the mixture between org structure and org document heradings. I know, they are the same, and such a distinction doesn't exist.
You can start a "document" at any place in the org hierachy. I would rather prefer a distintion between these two concepts.
> Orgmode got me through college, research, and at work, it really is the perfected markup language that can do a lot more than just being a markup language. The extensibility and out of the box export to other formats makes it immediately useful for at least 80% of common tasks.
With regards to your 80% claim, do you happen to know an extension that works well with pasting images from clipboard?
Over the years, my professional note taking has become extremely reliant on quickly pasting images (most often screenshots from papers or quick-and-dirty plots I made myself) from clipboard directly into the notes. The friction of doing this in vanilla org-mode is the only reason I'm not doing everything in org-mode.
orgmode is what helped me write my first self-published novella, without having to worry too much about formatting for print. Apart from the initial configuration, it was pretty much plug and play when going from plain text to something I could upload to KDP.
Either way, I updated both the git and the webpage to shout-out the week-before-this findings! I linked directly to your website, lmk if that's how you prefer it.
Cheers!