First published: June 27, 2023 | Permalink | RSS
A recursive screenshot of this blog post in tinier and tinier images as they recursively recede into themselves.
I have been trying to keep this portfolio and its parts pretty simple and lightweight. Part of this is wanting to use free services as much as possible, but part of it is to keep my vanilla Javascript skills up to snuff. It also may be my recent interest in permacomputing as well as a great disdain for overcomplicated (and data-sucking) big tech products.
Sometimes though it means I miss out on some features that come a little more "out of the box." I met up with a former colleague last week and we were talking about just this issue. He pointed out that while he has been enjoying reading these, there was no way to link to a particular post. Well no more!
I did some work this morning to add support for permalinks with these posts despite not using a backend or database. The solution I adopted here was to use query parameters from the url and a custom function to create slugs from the post titles as unique-ish identifiers. This was pretty easy to set up, luckily, and you can look at what I did to put this together here. This also gave the the ability to refactor some functions to better organize what is happening where and add the navigation buttons to the top of the blog page as well.
Granted, this current system using a javascript array in a Moreso than feeling more like a wizard with code, I am feeling good about having my own online space to put the
weird
things I am working on or just what is interesting me at any time. It is also nice to feel like I have more
control over the presentation of that space and its content. I am not necessarily interested in
becoming a Content Creator™, I am interested in sharing what I make, how I make it, and
especially in helping others to learn how to create spaces like these for themselves. These posts still feel good to write and especially to see them update in my RSS reader. These will likely
continue to be a mix of project updates and personal blogs. I got a lot of good feedback on
.js file will only last so many more
posts before I want to convert this to using a database, but I have genuinely been enjoying this set up and