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I’ve been doing some work on my little site here. I thought I’d talk about it a little.
human.json
In my part of the web, human.json is a project that has been getting a lot of attention lately. It is an attempt to make a more human web by building networks of websites that trust each other.
I’m a human so I wanted in.
Now, json is not the kind of file I want to maintain by hand. So I wrote some code to generate it from a simpler format.
First I looked into using Hugo’s templating systems to do it, but I couldn’t quite figure it out from the documentation—at least, not before I got impatient enough to just do it myself .
A few days later, however, I came across a blog post detailing exactly how to automatically build a human.json file in Hugo . So I switched over to that.
Thank you foosel!
Shiny new toy
That blog was very satisfying, not only because it solved the original problem I wanted to, but because the techniques in it were also useful for other things I want to do.
There are two bits and pieces that I’ve overhailed so far: my 88x31 buttons, and my webrings. It won’t look any different to anyone reading this, but it’s a little easier for me to manage.
Do you have some cool 88x31 buttons? Do you know somebody who does? I’d love to steal add some more to my site, so please feel free to tell me about them.
I also joined a new webring. It’s dedicated to websites that are green , and I thought that was cool.
Maybe some other things
This website will never really be finished . So the question is what to do next.
Joel had a nice idea recently of adding an “On this week” section of links. It’s similar to the “On this day” feature I have, but with a slightly broader scope so that more posts actually have some links. I’m tempted to switch over to that approach.
And then, of course, there is the constant whispering temptation to rebuild this site entirely from scratch. There’s nothing wrong with the current system that is driving me toward that, I just want to do it for the satisfaction of making it myself.
That’s all I have for now. Auf wiederposten!
