cool things people do with their blogs

This commit is contained in:
Wouter Groeneveld 2022-04-27 17:25:53 +02:00
parent 6317bdea80
commit e720fb9391
3 changed files with 66 additions and 3 deletions

View File

@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
---
title: Cool Things People Do With Their Blogs
date: 2022-04-27T17:25:00+02:00
categories:
- webdesign
tags:
- blogging
---
Small and independent blogs are always full of surprises. The more blogs I stumble upon, the more genuinely surprised I am by the things people do with their blogs. It seemed like a good idea to summarize highlights here. I hope it might inspire non-bloggers to blog and bloggers to tinker more with their site---because obviously the tinkering never ends!
I randomly selected blogs for each _thing_. There are ample other sites that use that particular feature, but I had to start somewhere. Some blogs appear muiltple times, probably making them even funkier! This list is incomplete, I'll try to periodically update it as I encounter more cool stuff. Enjoy!
### Content related
- Publish reviews of books/music/... in a cool sortable grid: [Chris Burnell's Music](https://chrisburnell.com/music/)
- Hack together your own `last.fm` to scrobble music to your own site: [Jan Boddez' Owning My Scrobbles](https://jan.boddez.net/articles/owning-my-scrobbles)
- Sync your laptop battery, local weather, and current location with your site: [Aaron Parecki's homepage](https://aaronparecki.com/)
- Publicly display global website statistics: [Luke Harris' stats page](https://www.lkhrs.com/stats/)
- More stats: game playtime, AWStats server data: [Roy Tang's stats](https://roytang.net/page/stats/awstats/)
- Create and regularly update a "uses" page: [Ru Singh' uses page](https://rusingh.com/uses/)
- Create and regularly update a "now" page: [Derek Sivers' the /now page movement](https://sive.rs/nowff)
- Auto-import game metadata from How Long To Beat and others: [Jefklak's Codex games page](https://jefklakscodex.com/games/)
- Use your own site to publish checkins instead of Foursquare: [Henrique Dias' checkins](https://hacdias.com/checkins)
- Regularly publish week reviews or link bundles: [Stefan Imhoff's Link Bundle #15](https://www.stefanimhoff.de/links/bundle-15/)
- Have an "on this day" page that displays posts from previous years: [Frank Meeuwsen's on this day archive](https://diggingthedigital.com/onthisday/)
- Group multiple posts into series: [Amos' long-form series](https://fasterthanli.me/series)
- Group multiple posts into research questions: [Emmanuel Quartey's questions section](https://www.quartey.com/questions)
- Syndicate the HTTP blog to a Gemini capsule: [Brain Baking Gemini](/post/2021/04/using-hugo-to-launch-a-gemini-capsule/) (defunct)
### Design related
- Create an official coat of arms as the logo of your site: [Marijn Florence's heraldry adventure](https://satyrs.eu/heraldry/)
- Design your site around ever-evolving note-taking systems: [Andy Matuschak's Evergreen Notes](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Evergreen_notes)
- An audible frequency graph that determines posting activity: [Chris Burnells' All posts archive](https://chrisburnell.com/archive/)
- Write a custom static blog engine from scratch, because we can: [Jan-Lukas Else's blog](https://jlelse.blog/)
- Implement a simple client-site search using lunr.js: [Brain Baking archives]( /archives/)
- Show articles from others blogs you read below your own articles: [an article from Drew DeVault](https://drewdevault.com/2022/04/15/Status-update-April-2022.html)
- Use a public inbox as a commenting system: [an article from Drew DeVault](https://drewdevault.com/2022/04/15/Status-update-April-2022.html)
- Implement reaction buttons for each post: [Jan-Lukas Else's thoughts on reactions](https://jlelse.blog/posts/goblog-reactions)
### IndieWeb related
- Have a guestbook page where people can send Webmentions to to sign it: [Ana Rodrigues' guestbook](https://ohhelloana.blog/guestbook/)
- Collaborative pixel-art that gets saved every five minutes: [Aaron Parecki's IndieWebCamp Pixel Art](https://aaronparecki.com/2018/01/21/11/pixel-art)
- Publish replies to others' sites using Webmentions: [James' Coffee Blog, Replies](https://jamesg.blog/replies/)
- Post Tweets on your own site first, then syndicate to Twitter: [Sebastiaan Andeweg's tweets](https://seblog.nl/)
- Summarize all IndieWeb-based RSVP events in a calendar: [Jamie Tanna's RSVPs](https://www.jvt.me/rsvps/)
- Work together on MicroPub/Sub as a new social reading protocol: [Neal Mather's blog](https://doubleloop.net/)
- Join the IndieWeb ring to promote own and others' sites: [Horst Gutmann's blog](https://zerokspot.com/)
- Buuild a custom Webmention receiver/sender: [IndieWeb examples](https://indieweb.org/Webmention#IndieWeb_Examples)
### RSS related
- Provide multiple RSS feeds for notes, articles, etc: [Ton Zijlstra's feeds](https://www.zylstra.org/blog/feeds/)
- Automatic publishing of favorites from an RSS reader: [Peter Rukavina's favorites](https://ruk.ca/favourites)
- Styled OPML Blogrolls that can be imported into your reader: [Ruben Schade's Omake OPML](https://rubenerd.com/omake.opml)
- Styled RSS feeds to better explain what a web feed is: [Matt Webb's RSS feed](http://interconnected.org/home/feed)
- A "Reply via email" link in each RSS post to encourage interaction: [Mike Harley's RSS feed](view-source:https://obsolete29.com/feed/feed.xml)
- Secret RSS-only posts that do not appear on the webiste: [Ton Zijlstra's RSS feed](https://www.zylstra.org/blog/feed/)
- Send out newsletters based on your RSS feed: [Kev Quirk is newslettering again](https://kevq.uk/im-newslettering-again/) (defunct)
- Add the location from where you write to your RSS feed: [Ruben Schade's RSS feed](https://rubenerd.com/feed)

File diff suppressed because one or more lines are too long

View File

@ -12,8 +12,8 @@
{{- if ge $limit 1 -}}
{{- $pages = $pages | first $limit -}}
{{- end -}}
{{- printf "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>" | safeHTML }}
{{- printf "<?xml-stylesheet href=\"/pretty-feed-v3.xsl\" type=\"text/xsl\"?>" | safeHTML }}
{{- printf "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n" | safeHTML }}
{{- printf "<?xml-stylesheet type=\"text/xsl\" media=\"screen\" href=\"%spretty-feed-v3.xsl\" ?>" $baseurl | safeHTML }}
<rss version='2.0' xmlns:content='http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/' xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:dc='http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/'>
<channel>
<title>{{ if eq .Title .Site.Title }}{{ .Site.Title }}{{ else }}{{ with .Title }}{{.}} on {{ end }}{{ .Site.Title }}{{ end }}</title>