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André Torgal

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My website: Backlog

Stuff I want to do on this website, or otherwise just investigate and experiment with. The done stuff is on the changelog page.

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UI: improvements

  • UI: Content components
    • <Blockquote>
      • accepts a title before the quote (before \\)
      • accepts an attribution after the quote (after // )
      • the attribution can contain a link
    • <Note type="old|construction|blog|tags|meta|links">

Authoring experience

  • AX: auto-titles (will allow emoji in h1)
  • AX: frontmatter defaults per folder
  • AX: author all page links with extension (so that IDE can navigate naturally); strip them via remark plugin
  • AX: incomplete frontmatter (missing type)
  • AX: validate broken links/images
  • AX: validate outgoing links (cache!.. last checked on...)?
  • AX: common emoji aliases, please 🥺
  • AX: VSCode emoji preview

Docs

  • add README
    • minimal operation instructions
    • a little narrative
    • delegate the details to MDX files?
  • Content: docs / components / ...
  • Content: docs / Astro setup
    • VS Code setup
    • project layout
    • extensions used
    • custom remark plugins
    • images with zero layout shift

Feature: Tags

  • UI: navigation for tags/** section header - featured, top, latest (stretch)
  • UI: tag styling
  • Feature: featured tags
  • Feature: featured content in tag listing
  • Feature: top tags
  • Feature: latest tags
  • Feature: related content (same tags)
  • Experiment: tag network graph
    • https://github.com/d3/d3
    • https://d3-graph-gallery.com/intro_d3js.html
    • https://d3-graph-gallery.com/graph/network_basic.html

  • Content: Add links to existing posts

  • Feature: featured links

  • Content: featured links (friends)

    • https://vanessapoppe.com/
    • https://brunopedro.com/
    • https://nevanscott.com/
    • https://diniscorreia.com/
    • https://duplos.org/
    • https://meet.andr3.net/

  • Feature: show links in article

  • Feature: Link page

  • Feature: Links home

  • Feature: navigation in links section

  • Feature: related content same links

Feature: Series

  • Feature: this article is part 3/5 of a series on "topic"

Feature: Experiments

  • Content: experiments homepage 💡
    • always two pages: concept and execution

Later

  • UI: new component <Code> with nice syntax highlighting and copy function
  • Vectors for work/story/music section
  • Make image quality part of profile, currently it's hardcoded to dev=50 prod=80
  • Prettier crashes on MDX because MDX 2 - temporarily changed the parser to astro
  • Tooling: accessibility linting
  • Feature: Media stream
  • Features:
    • feed archive
    • search
    • site map: https://github.com/withastro/astro/tree/main/packages/integrations/sitemap
  • Optimisation: prefetch:
    • benchmark first, interesting to document
    • see https://docs.astro.build/en/guides/integrations-guide/prefetch/
  • UI: embeds:
    • Youtube
    • Twitter (not embed, just quote)
    • see https://github.com/astro-community/astro-embed/tree/main/packages/astro-embed-youtube
  • SEO: audit and tweaks
    • see https://github.com/astro-community/astro-seo
  • UI: navigation: blog/**: section footer: related
  • Observability
  • Feature: link roll
  • UI: Theming
  • Feature: related posts
  • Feature: footnotes
  • Feature: link to source file on some content
  • Feature: search

MD(X) examples

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