HTML Chunder

2024-11-09 22:40

I think my website is living up to its name.

Blog posts, quick-posts, list-posts, garden-posts... they all blend into each other. I could probably just do blog posts and be done with it. Use tags instead of "sections" (I think Zola can do that).

I like a single page for short-form posts where you can read everything top to bottom. Though I'm not landing on a consistent images workflow - thumbnails (don't look great in RSS) or full photos (although I downsize them for quicker loading, it does interupt the reading).

I'm not a fan of seeing multiple long-form posts on a single page so I use a page with a list of all blog-posts that link to each one so you can see them all at a glance. My garden posts have potential (I was quite proud of my automated seasonal calendar determined by the post date) but I need to get the capture process down pat for my crop page to see the full affects.

The link posts and links page is another work in progress. I've changed the font in those ones because it looks neater for that type of content, and the back end effort to get it all updated is pretty complex with pulling bookmarks from everywhere and scripts that format it correctly.

My elevation profile pages and the header at top which I update each week is also highly complex. I have python code that I run on my Windows dual-boot because I haven't set up my python environment here in Linux yet. It downloads my Strava data, converts the gpx to graphs, which I then manually add to the header and profile page. Uggh.

So yeah.. html chunder... or rather, everything chunder.

Anyway ,I've only been web building for 6 months, and I guess the splatter of my site is becoming more apparent as I fill the pages up. I never had an end goal for this site. The goal was to not end, it is my place to tinker forever. I came across this article which encourages the kind of friction I'm encountering so I don't feel so bad about it. As the article says the friction drives our engagement and I am feeling much engaged. I will continue to reduce friction, but given my website is a reflection of my living, breathing, self, I will welcome friction too as it appears. I'll leave this quote from the article (I highly recommend reading the whole thing):

PROPOSAL - A world headed for a frictionless reality begs the question: how can we create a desirable future with digital technology? How can we access, develop and relate to it? We like to see designing friction as a fundamental design principle when working with digital culture. Instead of following design ethics that strive to eliminate friction, we suggest to not only allow, but embrace friction. To facilitate it: design [products with] digital technology in a way that makes space for our humanness. Here friction is a core ingredient. Digital technology should create environments and situations in which we can truly connect with each other, as well as with the unknown, the uncontrolled, with all senses, all elements, all emotions. It should create situations that are not predicted, measured and calculated beforehand; situations that result from and amount to the present moment.