The blogging system seems to be working, so this is my first post! Though it probably won't show up on the actual website for a few days, or maybe even a few weeks, since there is incomplete work that needs to be finished before I'll upload everything.
Along with my personal blog, Emys and I also now have a personal wiki. I got the idea of making a wiki from the Agora:
Agora Index[^]
I might update our home-grown static website generator to be able to export Agora-compatible Markdown. I'm not sure I'll try to have it added to anagora.org though, since I wouldn't want to hinder Agora's growth by associating it with ARC (I expect ARC will be unpopular with a lot of potential Agora users).
I'm going to aim for us to have citations and sources in the personal wiki. I don't have much experience with citations, but it seems important to have norms about these things, for the health of distributed knowledge systems.
My Mastodon account is going pretty well! There are two things helping me be less anxious than I would normally be. First is that I'm being very upfront about my belief that characters are people; anyone who considers following me will see it clearly stated on my profile. Second is that I joined a relatively big and generalist instance, so I'm not worried about annoying people on the local timeline.
I even got one follower somehow, who is very nice!
The website's CSS keeps growing; there are a few more lines now. Currently the CSS is embedded directly into each page, and some parts of it only appear when necessary (such as the table of contents CSS), but I should probably consider putting it into its own file.
The pro of having the CSS in its own file is that it gets cached. The con is that it increases the number of requests to load a page. Currently each page makes only one extra request to load favicon/logo. Minimizing the number of requests seems desirable.
Since the CSS is only about 1 kilobyte at this point, and becomes around 400 bytes when compressed with the webpage, I'm definitely overthinking this. It's definitely fine to embed it in every page. Still, hopefully this growth will settle down soon.
That's all for this post :)
Date: 2021-01-26
Author: Galene