Little technologies in this site
Some examples of the freedom of self-hosting, and the low-hanging fruit in all nonfiction:
- Metadata. YAML. Lets me build indices of the best posts, most important topics, and a timeline.
- Content notes. I don’t want to distress anyone who doesn’t want to be distressed.
- Topic imporance.
- Quality. IMO.
- Epistemic status. Marking each post with the confidence level or literalness, genre. Originator.
- Argument. The thinking person’s TL;DR.
- Last page edit. Nice for emphasising that the content is changing.
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Information hiding. bigfoot and JQuery Accordions.
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Bug bounties. To keep me honest.
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Server magic: Jekyll and Ruby. Can do anything. Text deduplication, link reuse, quote database, etc.
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Feed. I actually initally forgot about good old RSS, because it is so easy and so reliable that it fades into the background of life, and ceases to appear as technology.
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Anonymous feedback. Unauthenticated Google Form.
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Disclaimers. Most book reviews are by people unfit to judge their truth, including mine.
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Psychology. What am I like? What sort of person writes this?
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Opinions. I used to dream of listing all of my premises. This is both impossible and too much work, so instead I list some things I think you should know.
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Worldview message digest. Quotations database.
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Licence. Licensed under Creative Commons Sharealike.
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Style consistency. SASS (meta CSS)
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Static comments. Netlify Forms. (Staticman is cool but brittle.)
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Typesetting maths. MathJax.
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Data analysis transparency. Github ipynb viewer.
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Diagrams. matcha.io
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Memorial. GNU
- Tables. https://www.tablesgenerator.com/
To implement
- Rotproofing my links. Gwern’s archiver.
- Internet Archive option for all links. Or auto replace script.
- Maybe make content notes more prominent.
- GRADE evidence quality scale?
- Time since modified vs error discovery rate