From b68e5092a60ef3e0e7115ea931b268f0d3b9ea9e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marcel Kapfer Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2021 21:46:06 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] New blog post: Updates to my website --- content-org/blog.org | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+) diff --git a/content-org/blog.org b/content-org/blog.org index 0e00313..cac1969 100644 --- a/content-org/blog.org +++ b/content-org/blog.org @@ -1,6 +1,37 @@ #+HUGO_SECTION: blog #+HUGO_BASE_DIR: ../ +* Updates to my website + :PROPERTIES: + :EXPORT_DATE: [2021-08-20 Fri 11:08] + :EXPORT_FILE_NAME: updates-website.md + :END: + + During the last days I took some time to review and update my website and---while I am at it---also slightly changed some other things. Since there are two thing that may interest you, I decided to write few words about it. + +** What I Use + + In early 2016 I wrote a blog post about what software I use from day to day, motivated by questions from some people. + Since then I regularly (meaning around once a year (boy, there is really some outdated stuff there)) updated the post, extending, re-working and updating it. + During the last months I saw some other people having a dedicated page on what hard- and software they use and I decided that this would possibly also something for me. + So I sat down and created a [[/uses][What I Use]] page which replaces and extends the old post. + It now also features the various hardware that I have lying around. + Of course I will also update that page more or less regularly (I added a note on top when it was last updated). + +** Engage! + + Next to a few design tweaks I also better highlighted the possibility to comment on my posts. + This follows a great idea I read on the [[https://kevq.uk/adding-the-post-title-to-my-reply-by-email-button/][Blog of Kev Quirk]] to use a button for engaging readers to write their thoughts by email. + When I moved from Wordpress (where I used the build in commenting system) to this Hugo based site I no longer had a way for readers to comment on posts + As an alternative I put a really small text at the end of each post telling people to write me comments by email (I think I had this idea from [[https://karl-voit.at/][Karl Voit]]). + However: I never got any email on my posts (OK, admittedly I do not post much and following the stats there are also not much readers...). + + What Kev does is a bit more advanced: while he also follows the idea of not having a commenting system but engaging the readers to write him a mail, he has a much better UX for that. + At the end of each post he puts a highly visible button labeled with "Reply via email". + I like the idea very much and decided to [[https://gitlab.com/mmk2410/nextdesign/-/commit/cbc79dbe7f97ba7dc4413c3750be87e05febeeba][implement]] the same approach on this page. + So feel free to send me your thoughts by mail using the nice button below! + + * Automatic UUID creation in some Org-mode files :@pim:emacs:orgmode: :PROPERTIES: :EXPORT_DATE: [2021-05-04 Tue 19:15]