Ideas for my blog

Capjamesg wrote a fun article about « 100 things you can do on your personal website ». This and Shellsharks’s website component checklist inspired this post. I also read responses like this post or that one for other ideas.

I’m thinking of doing a review of this list about every 3 or 6 months, we’ll see. But will be a good thing to see how this blog evolve in the near future and see if I’m going to keep up writing and updating this blog so much :).

I also transformed that post into a static /ideas page following the inspiration of Snarfed ideas page.

✅ Already Implemented

• ✅ Homepage
• ✅ Blog posts (same page is used as archives) and RSS feed
• ✅ About and Contact Links
• ✅ Colophon and Blog History pages
• ✅ Feeds page
• ✅ humans.txt
• ✅ sitemap.xml
• ✅ PGP key
• ✅ robots.txt
• ✅ security.txt
• ✅ Tags and Categories
• ✅ /uses page
• ✅ /ideas page (based on this blog post :))
• ✅ Bookmarks page (same page is used as archives) and RSS feed
• ✅ Static Pages (same page is used as archives) and RSS feed
• ✅ Become an IndieWeb Citizen
• ✅ Light/Dark-mode theme (no toggle, based on system preferences)
• ✅ Have a favicon
• ✅ Participate at least once to the IndieWeb Carnival: 1st time on Feb 2024!

⭕ Will do at some point maybe

• ⭕ indieweb.txt
• ⭕ License
• ⭕ Additional Content Type: Notes (+ RSS feed)
• ⭕ BlogRoll / Webring
• ⭕ Improve Accessiblity
• ⭕ Check all broken links / images (from old blog version that may have been poorly imported)
• ⭕ Display selected blog posts and gemini article on homepage instead of latest 5
• ⭕ Create a dedicated IndieWeb static page to indicate IndieMark status
• ⭕ A content statistic page (number of post in average per month/year, per type, etc…), not “user analytics”

❓ Maybe someday, but unlikely

• ❓ Share a list of your favourite books
• ❓ Add an easter egg
• ❓ Search: Would require either Javascript or an 3rd party to selfhost, too complex for this blog, but may change?

❌ Won’t implement (but never say never)

• ❌ Change Log: The git repository does this well already
• ❌ Donation page: Thank you, but right now I don’t need donation. I write about what I want when I want, and want to stay free of being pressured to write.
• ❌ Comments / Guestbook / (any UGC): I own this website, and only what I wrote will be displayed. I’ll happily read your messages / responses over email, webmentions, IRC or the Fediverse though :).
• ❌ Now page: Too “high maintenance” type of page for me
• ❌ Site Statistics: No tracking, no Javascript, no Cookie, ever.