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what I want in it:

• home page

• CV

• projects showcase

• blog > section about workflow and dotfiles

• Recent notes page that shows most recent activity

• writings page (or MOC), ordered by publish date.

• organize file tree

• fix dg-icon-1

• fix icons that don't have styling (map and writing)

• side tools prevent from clicking the scroll bar

• links to my socials. (footer, or a page for that?, or just at home page)

• get better domain

• publish more notes. (Music folder?)

• blur effect when searching or viewing graph ✅ 2023-11-15

• double click to copy link ain't working.

• change fontawesome icons to a 100% free solution

  • upgrade to https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/ better static file generator than what I have now
    • supports publishing and displaying files (pdf, mp4, gif)

• features I would like to add to the template: digital garden obsidian plugin

• online monetization and payments processing

• music player with my techie playlist

• prettier most recent notes and writings MOC note. see https://hermitage.utsob.me/#on-top-of-my-mind

things to get from wikibonsai:

• I like the visit history navigation and toggling between graph and past visited
• he does a tag map instead of organizing in folders. But it achieves almost the same thing actually.

social

• share note buttons (copy link, linkedIn, mail)

• social interactions: comments, mentions, likes

• look into webmentions to add comments and interactions to my writings.
  https://indieweb.org/webmention.io

• https://webmention.io/: user needs their own URL
  webmention with bridgy pulls responses from reddit, github, facebook, mastodon twitter. linkedin
  other sites can notify their mentions to you, but they need a URL, so normal users can't interact that much.
  for very technical users(devs that are on mastodon)
  webmentions with bridgy could be a good solution.

• disqus OK, has trackers and makes a lot http requests

• facebook commentsrequires facebook account

• Remarkbox their hosting and developing seems to have been abandoned. I can find out how to self host tho.

these use github. ok if my site is only for engineers

• -g giscus: needs a github account. uses the github discussions system

• utteranceis built on github issues. needs github account

• hyvorsimple, good. paid, can't self host

• commentbox free 100 comments/month

• graphcommentup to 1M data loads / month

• intense debate UI seems very old, looks like they host everything

self hosted:

• remark42 went with this one ✅
• https://linuxhandbook.com/self-host-comment-system/#commento
• isso
• commento
• https://hub.docker.com/r/caroga/commentoplusplus

RSS feeds is a standard way to subscribe to sites to see when posts are published and updated. kinda like a youtube subscribe button for sites. I guess it is mostly used today to follow personal sites and writes, news... Prob used a lot for blogs (specially when blogs where more prevelent years ago).

Stack

static site generators
I went with a static site generator that is implemented as an obsidian plugin.

References:

nikita

• https://nikiv.dev/ and https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/nikiv.dev.
  simple site built on top of Solid start template.
  hosts his wiki section is updated with gitbook or vitepress

• https://tomcritchlow.com/wiki/
  https://tomcritchlow.com/2019/02/17/building-digital-garden/
  really like this site. has a blogging section with comments.
  made with jekyll

• https://miketannenbaum.com/

• https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes?stackedNotes=zPKTSiU725W9WQCqoVPBcxm

Documentation

• Digital garden obsidian extension docs
• Digital Garden theme

Themes

• Abyssal
  Try them out and see how the page behaves.
  Some themes make the UI act funky or dont support all emojis.