Blogging
Below are all of the posts with the Blogging tag. A post tagged with Blogging means that it is about Blogging. If a post references Blogging but does not have the tag, then the post will not be in the list below. If a post has the Blogging tag or mentions Blogging, then it will be in the Glossary for "Blogging".
I have ordered the posts from newest to oldest:
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Jettisoning the Publication Schedule
Affirming that I am not beholden to a blog posting schedule; and that others also recognize the joy of writing when the spirit moves them.
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A Walk Through My Digital Neighborhood
A bit of a walk about through digital neighborhood: as analogue, specific, and digressive. Or, a reflection on the written word in many forms.
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On Elfeed and Backups
A walk-through of the “perks” of using the #Elfeed #Emacs package for reading my #RSS feed. Then a quick overview of my back-up process, using habit stacking and #SyncThing. Finally, a reflection on what this is all meaning to me.
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Re: It is Time to Ban Email
Yup, there’s problems with emails. But so is there problems with other collaboration tools.
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Reflecting on "What is the impact of online writing?" by Tracy Durnell
The blogosphere can be viewed as sitting around a campfire. Each time I “read my feed”, I’ve sat down anew and receive the stories from those that have shared. And to then engage with those stories is a fulfilling practice.
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Re-Wiring My Epigraphs Functionality to Leverage My Bibliography File
A detailed walk through of extending Emacs’s Org-Mode link functionality to add a new link type.
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Exploring the Reworking of a Blog Page
Thinking through how I can move the canonical version of my personal bibliography into my personal knowledge manager; and then export something similar to what exists. A benefit is that the process I’ve explored creates opportunities for richer processes for the books I read.
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Guarding Against Hugo's Breakage
Thinking about removing Hugo from my build chain; in part because I have guards against its breakage. I’m curious about what the alternative might/will bring. And I’m exploring with caution.
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A Journey of a Thousand Posts
A reflection on the first 1000 posts for Take on Rules.
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Revisiting the Side Note Enhancement for My Blog
Further refinement of an accessibility feature I added to my website, with a brief mention of the aria-expanded and aria-controls HTML attributes.
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Writing a JavaScript Progressive Enhancement for My Sidenotes
I write a bit of background on a reported usability issue. I then provide a bit of JavaScript I wrote to resolve the reported issue.
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Advising Denote Function for Removing Diacritics from String
Steps I took to remove diacritics from a string. This involved creating a map of diacritics to their simplified letters; writing a function to replace those diacritics; and last advising Denote to use the diacritic removing function.
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Leveraging Denote's Signature for Multiple Purposes
A discussion of how I’d overloaded the Org-Mode tag concept, implementation and accessibility constraints, and identifying a pathway towards separation of concerns. Then a few Emacs functions and shell scripts to perform the migration.
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Noodling on Refactoring Publishing Pipeline
Responding to Irreal’s nudge regarding refactoring my blogging pipeline. This post involves a conversation with the original post, then dives into reflections and points towards likely next steps in refactoring my blogging process.
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Using a TODO List and Keyboard Macros to Guide RSS Feed Review
Building on a previous post, I layout how I’m working through curating my RSS feed. This involes creating a working document that tracks the state each RSS feed URL; and a macro that helps me consistently move through each RSS feed URL. All told, demonstrating Emacs’s keyboard macros and custom Org Mode TODO states.
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On Blogging and Online Neighborhoods
This post draws attention to the idea that blogging is like a neighborhood community. I also walk through a few other neighborhoods that I “live in”: Discord, Email, Mastodon, and Blogs. Then talk about the durability of Blogs and RSS.
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Moving a Shell Command and Spreadsheet into a Hugo Page
A quick walk through and reflection of adding more blog post stats to my site. This is stuff I’ve published, not visitor traffice (which I don’t track).
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The Why of Linking to a Resource Multiple Times
Peeling Back the Curtain of Some Blogging Wizardy
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Take on Rules Blog Writing and Publishing Playbook
Documenting my High Level Workflow for Bringing the Bits to the Web
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Hacking Org-Mode Export for Footnotes as Sidenotes
Yet Another Refinement to My Blogging Engine
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A Moment on the Edge of Fey
To Find Magic in Paper and Place
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Wrapping up Another Year for Take on Rules
A Season of Writing
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The Wastelands of Discord and the Fall of Twitter
Ever Collapsing Channels of Digital Communication
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Campaign-Level Questions for a Solo Campaign
Building a Mystery
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Get to Know Me: Table-Top RPG Edition
Twenty Questions and Some Answers
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On the Considerations of Where to Post Information
Or Maybe Don’t Pull Eggs in Baskets That Aren’t Yours
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Describing the Semantics of My Site
Paying Attention to the HTML
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On Storing Glossary Terms in Org Roam Nodes
Hacking on Org-Mode
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The How of Take on Rules
An Overview of How I Make this Site
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The Joys of a Simple Site
Keeping Simple So It Doesn’t Become a Burden
- Index for 2011 A to Z Challenge
- Z is for Zebullon's Guide to Frontier Space
- Y is for YINSH
- X is for Xizors
- W is for Wyatt Earp
- V is for Versions
- U is for Underdark
- T is for Too Many Games
- S is for Scales of War
- R is for Red Hand of Doom
- Q is for Queen of Spiders
- P is for Puerto Rico
- O is for Obanar
- N is for Night Below
- M is for Magic the Gathering
- L is for Light Speed
- K is for Kickstart
- J is for Jaiman the Land of Twilight...kind of
- I is for Ingenious
- G is for Guillotine
- H is for H-series The Bloodstone Pass Saga
- F is for Family Gaming
- E is for Eberron
- D is for ...
- C is for Candyland
- B is for Burning Empires
- A is for Alpha Dawn