New (static) pages

Continuing the small set of changes I’ve made to this blog for the past weeks, I’ve decided to add new (more or less) static pages to this site (similar to the About page):

• blog-history: A page that show the evolution of this blog post since it’s creation. Re-using a lot of information from my 13 years of blogging posts from last year
• Colophon: Page describing how the sausagethis blog is made.
• /uses: Similar to many others blog, the /uses page contains information about hardware / software used

Pages planed for later:

• homelab: I removed the previous one when updating this blog to the new theme, but it is coming back soon at the same time as the 1st posts of the new homelab series to come
• BlogRoll (or equivalent): Way of sharing other blogger feeds. Don’t know if I want to automate an export of my RSS reader of a more manually curated list. Will see!
• Maybe add a project page, not necessary, so I’ll see if I’m motivated enough at some point

I know /now pages are also a thing, but I also know myself enough to know I’m never going to update it enough so it doesn’t makes sense to create it in the first place, so going to pass on that one :).

These pages are now part of the all posts RSS feed and have a dedicated RSS feed too, like all other content types. Thanks hugo to make it so easy :). The listing page itself is also h-feed compliant.

I’ve decided to also display them on the homepage like any other content type. They will always be at the bottom as they are the one that will be added / updated the less. Also, I’ve decided not to list all of them but only the one I’m marking as “featured” in the frontmatter area. It will allow me to choose to exclude or not some of these static pages from the homepage list. In any cases, the pages listing page shows them all.

I’m thinking about potentially doing the same thing for blog and gemlog posts, to list “only” the five latest “featured” posts (the one I like the most to put “in front”). And of course keeping the current reversed chronological order on the listing blog / gemini pages. If you have any insights / feedback about presenting article on the homepage this way (compared to current), I would love to hear about it :).