From b3db25c4707a9fd2038bd4cefa3ba41aebb2df91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Danila Fedorin Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2024 18:02:13 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Fix some typos and publish the microfeatures post Signed-off-by: Danila Fedorin --- content/blog/blog_microfeatures/index.md | 13 ++++++------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/blog/blog_microfeatures/index.md b/content/blog/blog_microfeatures/index.md index 454f6d9..148b61d 100644 --- a/content/blog/blog_microfeatures/index.md +++ b/content/blog/blog_microfeatures/index.md @@ -1,7 +1,6 @@ --- title: "Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites" date: 2024-06-23T11:03:10-07:00 -draft: true tags: ["Website"] description: "In this post, I talk about pleasant but seemingly minor features in personal sites" --- @@ -21,14 +20,14 @@ I've been running a blog for a while --- some of the oldest posts I've found and I've seen quite a few little things that are nice to use, but relatively easy to implement. They don't really make or break a website; the absence of such features might be noticed, but will not cause any disruption for the reader. -On the other hand, their presence serves a QoL enhancement. I find these to be +On the other hand, their presence serves as a QoL enhancement. I find these to be analogous to Hillel's notion of "microfeatures". If you're interested in adding something to your site, consider browsing this menu to see if anything resonates! One last thing is that this post is not necessarily about microfeatures I'd like _every_ blog or personal website to have. Some ideas I present here are only well-suited to certain types of content and certain written -voices. They need not be applied indiscriminantly. +voices. They need not be applied indiscriminately. With that, let's get started! @@ -78,7 +77,7 @@ whose site will be mentioned plenty in this post anyway --- is [Faster than Lime Take this post on [Rust's Futures](https://fasterthanli.me/articles/understanding-rust-futures-by-going-way-too-deep); this is what the top of it looks like at the time of writing: -{{< figure src="fasterthanlime-toc.png" class="small" caption="A screenshot of the table of contents on Faster than Lime" alt="A screenshot of the table of contents on Faster than Lime. A box with the word \"Contents\" contains links to several sections on the page bellow (offscreen)" >}} +{{< figure src="fasterthanlime-toc.png" class="small" caption="A screenshot of the table of contents on Faster than Lime" alt="A screenshot of the table of contents on Faster than Lime. A box with the word \"Contents\" contains links to several sections on the page bellow (off screen)" >}} The quality and value of TOCs certainly depends on the sections within the page itself --- and whether or not the page has sections @@ -99,7 +98,7 @@ I also find this very nice, though it does miss out on headings within a page. I've mentioned that tables of contents can communicate the structure of the page. However, they do so from the outset, before you've started reading. -In their "base form", the reader stops beneffiting from tables of contents +In their "base form", the reader stops benefiting from tables of contents {{< sidenote "right" "jump-top-note" "once they've started reading." >}} That is, of course, unless they jump back to the top of the post and find the table of contents again. @@ -113,7 +112,7 @@ the [most recent article at the time of writing](https://www.quantamagazine.org/ {{< figure src="quanta-scroll.gif" class="fullwide" caption="The progress bar on a Quanta Magazine article" alt="The progress bar on a Quanta Magazine article. As the page scrolls, an orange bar at the top gradually fills up from left to right." >}} -One immediate thought is that this is completely superceded by the regular +One immediate thought is that this is completely superseded by the regular browser scroll bar that's ever-present at the side of the page. However, the scroll bar could be deceiving. If your page has a comments section, the comments could make the page look dauntingly long. Similarly, references @@ -357,7 +356,7 @@ at the time of writing, I'm seeing the following footer: {{< figure src="drew-openring.png" class="fullwide" caption="Links to other blogs from Drew DeVault's blog" alt="Links to other blogs from Drew DeVault's blog. The links consist of three side-by-side boxes, each with a title and brief excerpt." >}} As indicated in the image, Drew's site in particular uses a program -called [openring](https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/openring), which is based on +called [`openring`](https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/openring), which is based on RSS feeds (another [microfeature I love](#rss-feeds)). However, _how_ the site finds such articles (statically like `openring`, or on page load using some JavaScript) isn't hugely important to me. What's