I’m really leaning in to the idea of treating my website like a digital garden—a truly personal corner of the internet. I’ve made a few changes with this in mind:
- A new /garden page, where I’ve aggregated links to all sections of the site, such as my blog (/notebook), /now, /uses, etc. Currently it’s very minimal, with a lot of potential to grow as I experiment with new things.
- Started the process of IndieWeb-ifying the site. So far, I’ve added:
- An h-card: the equivalent of a business card on the web, containing key information about myself which makes is possible for feed readers to display my profile.
- IndieAuth: A login protocol that allows me to sign in to various services across the open web, such as the IndieWeb wiki.
- Webmentions: an open standard that allows cross-site communications through likes, comments and other forms of responses. You can use Webmentions to respond to this post right now!
- microformats: HTML extensions for marking up various sections of the site (e.g. h-card for personal details and h-entry for blog posts).
- I’m currently in the process of updating my syndication links across older blog posts. Since most of them appear on both on this website and my old Medium blog, this is a great way for me to link them together.
I’m also thinking more and more about “joyful” web design, specifically, the joy of putting something together that is crafted with thought and care, with no commercial aspirations. The concept has been articulated far better than I ever could by James here and by Tantek here.
I’m keeping a record of how things are evolving in this personal digital garden. There are other things that I’m thinking of adding, like a dedicated section for film recommendations and reviews, the same for books perhaps (if I ever get around to reading as much as I’d like to), and maybe a view of my daily sky, like on Angélique Weger’s website. I might even add a guestbook.
There’s much to do. Ta ta for now!
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