From 0ae520b07bf4d989665c23da91951d9ca393ef06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: JP Hastings-Spital Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 08:58:44 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Memex entry --- content/memex/web/_index.md | 9 +++++++++ content/memex/web/functionality.md | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/memex/web/_index.md create mode 100644 content/memex/web/functionality.md diff --git a/content/memex/web/_index.md b/content/memex/web/_index.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..3ceeb4ae --- /dev/null +++ b/content/memex/web/_index.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +--- +title: (World Wide) Web +emoji: πŸ•ΈοΈ +summary: The website part of the internet. +--- + +I've been a little bit obsessed with the internet, and the web particularly, since about 1997. Using AOL to get online and looking at geocities sites was always a wonderous journey into the unknown for 12-year-old-me, and nothing's changed since. + +As you can probably tell from this site, I enjoy designing & building websites β€” though I tend to keep my more obscure web experiments away from this blog, so it stays functional. This section of my memex includes websites, features and ideas I really enjoy and might try and replicate or develop with some more of that fabled spare time. diff --git a/content/memex/web/functionality.md b/content/memex/web/functionality.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2b399ac6 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/memex/web/functionality.md @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +title: Web functionality +emoji: βš™οΈ +summary: Features of websites that are interesting or useful. +draft: false +tags: +- www +- web +- webdesign +- interactivity +- design +--- + +## Asterisk Magazine + +I love the design of [this magazine](https://asteriskmag.com/), the simple colours & design (as well as their ethos), but one little feature particularly is super intriguing! + +On [any article page](https://asteriskmag.com/articles), if you highlight a block of text, an asterisk will appear which will let you bookmark that chunk of text β€” _entirely locally_. It stores the data in your browser's DB, so there's no data going back to the magazine about what the most highlighted section is, which is always nice. + +I haven't explored this feature a lot, but I'd be interested in exploring whether the highlights can survive edits of the article? What referencing mechanism they use for storing the locations of the highlights? (Is it a [CFI](https://idpf.org/epub/linking/cfi/epub-cfi.html)?) Can you manually export your highlights later, in a format that allows for citations? It's all quitr exciting.