Designing This Website

Inspirations

• Maggie Appleton
• Tom Critchlow
• Max Böck
• Starbreaker.org
• Kev Quirk

Potential features

Accessible heading anchors

• Eleventy-base-blog v9 has Zach Leatherman's implementation of heading anchors
• Markdown-it-anchor

Tables of contents

• markdown-it-toc-done-right as recommended by Markdown-it-anchor

Icon to denote external links (including special icons for certain websites like Wikipedia, similar to Gwern)

• Michelle Barker on Styling External Links with Attribute Selectors via Jared White

Component (WebC or Nunjucks includes?) for blockquotes with citations

• Adrian Roselli on Blockquotes in Screen Readers via Jared White

Potential issues to address

Michelle Barker on How I Solved My Font Rendering Problem for variable fonts, via Jared White

Naming things

Atom > RSS: Why We Should Just Call Them “Feeds” Instead of “RSS” Feeds via starbreaker.org and Bryce Wray

Things I'm unsure about

I need to understand more about the following before I consider adding to this site

Automated Webmentions as bloggers/developers have mentioned privacy issues and even experienced developers have struggled to implement Webmentions.

Social share imagery and Twitter card markup

• One perspective is from starbreaker.org who writes about their contempt for proprietary social media tags and avoiding doing unpaid work for platforms
• Jim Nieslen wrote in 2021 about his quibbles with social share imagery and came up with a "minimum" Twitter card markup through his testing of using the Twitter card validator