From 65d37c0c583885b9c29ce2a85e4f7233623de579 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: JP Hastings-Spital Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 22:52:07 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Add Reading Lists to site index --- config.toml | 9 +++++++-- content/reading-lists/internet-technology/_index.md | 11 +++++++++++ content/reading-lists/internet-technology/ipfs.md | 13 +++++++++++++ .../reading-lists/internet-technology/neocities.md | 11 +++++++++++ content/reading-lists/web-comics/b3ta.md | 9 +++++++++ content/reading-lists/web-comics/oglaf.md | 9 +++++++++ content/reading-lists/web-comics/side-quested.md | 9 +++++++++ content/reading-lists/web-comics/smbc.md | 9 +++++++++ 8 files changed, 78 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 content/reading-lists/internet-technology/_index.md create mode 100644 content/reading-lists/internet-technology/ipfs.md create mode 100644 content/reading-lists/internet-technology/neocities.md create mode 100644 content/reading-lists/web-comics/b3ta.md create mode 100644 content/reading-lists/web-comics/oglaf.md create mode 100644 content/reading-lists/web-comics/side-quested.md create mode 100644 content/reading-lists/web-comics/smbc.md diff --git a/config.toml b/config.toml index 05ffc6cd..4b8846f5 100644 --- a/config.toml +++ b/config.toml @@ -108,16 +108,21 @@ date = ["date", "publishDate", "lastmod", ":git"] name = "📸 Photos" url = "/photos" weight = 4 + [[languages.en.menu.main]] + identifier = "reading-lists" + name = "📡 Reading lists" + url = "/reading-lists" + weight = 5 [[languages.en.menu.main]] identifier = "posts" name = "📔 Posts" url = "/posts" - weight = 5 + weight = 6 [[languages.en.menu.main]] identifier = "now" name = "👇 Now" url = "/now" - weight = 6 + weight = 7 [sitemap] filename = 'sitemap.xml' diff --git a/content/reading-lists/internet-technology/_index.md b/content/reading-lists/internet-technology/_index.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..67d26187 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/reading-lists/internet-technology/_index.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +--- +title: Internet technology +outputs: +- html +- rss +- opml +--- + +These feeds cover interesting news and posts about the machinery beneath the internet, and the future of the internet. Not _too_ deep, but with lots of distributed technology newsfeeds (particularly [IPFS](https://ipfs.io)). + +Warning: lots of nerdery here 🤓 diff --git a/content/reading-lists/internet-technology/ipfs.md b/content/reading-lists/internet-technology/ipfs.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..046be4e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/reading-lists/internet-technology/ipfs.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +title: IPFS Blog & News +summary: 'All the latest information about the IPFS Project in one place: blog posts, release notes, videos, news coverage, and more.' +feed: + rss: https://blog.ipfs.tech/index.xml + url: https://blog.ipfs.tech/ +--- + +IPFS is one of my favouriote web technologies for the future: a mechanism for sharing data (especially static websites, at the moment) from _person to person_ in a trustworthy way, instead of always from corporate-run server to person. + +Their blog is a good read if you're interested in the technolgy behind it; even if it is a litte 'hard sell' advocacy on the technology at the moment, that's where they need to be as a group right now and I support it! + +By the way, this site is eternally available over IPFS at `/ipns/www.byjp.me`, if you have a browser that supports it, or the inclination to browse throw a public gateway (like [www-byjp-me.ipns.dweb.link](https://www-byjp-me.ipns.dweb.link/)). diff --git a/content/reading-lists/internet-technology/neocities.md b/content/reading-lists/internet-technology/neocities.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..6ef9a74c --- /dev/null +++ b/content/reading-lists/internet-technology/neocities.md @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +--- +title: The Neocities Blog +summary: The Official Neocities Blog - news, events, and what we're working on. +feed: + rss: https://blog.neocities.org/feed.xml + url: https://blog.neocities.org/ +--- + +It doesn't get a lot of activity these days, but Neocities has long been a fascinating company working to bring back the creativity of the early world wide web. Their name is even a reference to the _enormously_ popular early web-page hosting company [Geocities](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoCities) — later bought and shut down by _Yahoo!_. + +Do read their blog if you're interested in making a home on the web, and take a browse through [the sites they host](https://neocities.org/browse), there are _a lot_! diff --git a/content/reading-lists/web-comics/b3ta.md b/content/reading-lists/web-comics/b3ta.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..1a4a3fc4 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/reading-lists/web-comics/b3ta.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +--- +title: B3ta +summary: The b3ta.com weblog and the best posts from the messageboard +feed: + rss: https://b3ta.com/xml/combined.php?rss=1 + url: http://www.b3ta.com/ +--- + +Not really a web comic, but always funny; b3ta is a very British culture centric comedy forum, with regular image posts constructed by the members to give some very dry wit to British news and references. The posts that make it to this feed almost always get a `sensible_chuckle.gif` out of me, and I've often come across major (inter)national news from its members' sarcastic takes before anywhere else! diff --git a/content/reading-lists/web-comics/oglaf.md b/content/reading-lists/web-comics/oglaf.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..7fa8ebfe --- /dev/null +++ b/content/reading-lists/web-comics/oglaf.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +--- +title: Oglaf! +summary: Comics. Often dirty. Updates Sundays. +feed: + rss: https://www.oglaf.com/feeds/rss/ + url: https://www.oglaf.com/latest/ +--- + +They're not kidding when they say "often dirty", but the playfulness, great artwork and semi-regular dirtiness is always fun to see at the start of a work week! diff --git a/content/reading-lists/web-comics/side-quested.md b/content/reading-lists/web-comics/side-quested.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..b5855192 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/reading-lists/web-comics/side-quested.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +--- +title: Side Quested Webcomic +summary: Updates every Monday and Thursday. +feed: + rss: https://sidequested.com/feed/ + url: https://sidequested.com/ +--- + +A new find for me, its not been running long, but I'm already hooked on the story and its charcters. The plot moves slowly (as do most webcomics), but the art is superb and I'm forever skipping ahead to these posts when they appear. diff --git a/content/reading-lists/web-comics/smbc.md b/content/reading-lists/web-comics/smbc.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..66bcabc3 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/reading-lists/web-comics/smbc.md @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +--- +title: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal +summary: Latest Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal comics and news +feed: + rss: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/rss + url: https://www.smbc-comics.com/ +--- + +I think this must be one of the most popular webcomics on the web; [Zach Weinersmith](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zach_Weinersmith)'s geeky humour (and surprisingly well researched topics) always give me a chuckle _and_ something to think about.