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* Updates to my website
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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Since then I regularly (meaning around once a year (boy, there is really some outdated stuff there)) updated the post, extending, re-working and updating it.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!
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