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The first entry. This site exists for GitminderMy old /github Beeminder goal tracked commits across every repository on GitHub, until GitHub's API changed to only allow tracking one repository at a time. Most active projects had already moved to GitLab and Source.tube anyway. The repository of this… as the daily-commit driver for two Beeminder goalsA commitment device: set a numeric goal, draw a yellow brick road toward it on a graph, and pay real money if you fall off. The two goals riding on this repo, one on commit count and one on cumulative…, and it leans on wiki-links ,like Colour TheoryGruvbox's rainbow accent set doubles as the symbol taxonomy's colour legend, see values for the entry that started this. One per entry type: red for quotes, yellow for bookmarks, green for notes, blue for diary entries, purple for snippets, and… to connect ideas as they accumulate, in the tradition of a digital gardenA digital garden is a website that grows in public instead of publishing in the finished, dated-post format of a blog. Entries get revised in place, start rough and get filled in over time, and are organized by association rather… more than a blog.Footnotes are pure CSS here: hover the reference to preview it inline, or jump to the bottom like normal.
The design is deliberately boring. A flat symbol taxonomyI'm using single-character symbols, one per type as a quick visual cue: | type | symbol | example | | -------- | ------ | ------------------------ | | quote | > | on-writing-daily | | bookmark | ⚹ | eleventy-interlinker |… instead of category folders, pure-CSS footnotesThe trick behind the footnotes on this site and the hover previews in notes like colour-theory is the same adjacent-hover pattern, just with different content in the hidden span. It's AetherAnne's pattern for footnotes without JavaScript, wired through markdown-it's renderer… instead of a JS dependency, and a stub for every dead link instead of a 404.
Read Eleventy InterlinkerObsidian-style wikilinks, backlinks, and embeds for Eleventy. Used for both dead-link reporting and stub-generation. The resolvingFns is why I use this instead of the lighter eleventy-plugin-backlinks alternative. It makes the hover-preview excerpts on wikilinks possible. The dead-link-to-stub pipeline is the… for the plugin doing most of the actual work, and On Writing Daily"Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to… for an example quote.A second footnote, to confirm multiple footnotes on the same page don't collide. Each hidden .fn-content span is keyed by its own footnote id.
None of this matters if the habit doesn't survive contact with a busy week, see First CommitHello, world! This is my attempt of creating scaffolding for a digital garden. I'm cautiously optimistic. There are a handful of entries based on the nature of the site itself. For example, values links out, bearminder is currently a stub,colour-theory… for day one.