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title = "Did you read the memo? — by Borjan Tchakaloff"

[meta]
author = "Borjan Tchakaloff"

[header]
headline = "Did you read the memo?"
moto = [
    "a minimalistic, self-hosted, micro-blogging engine",
    "by Borjan Tchakaloff",
]

[[articles]]
date = 2021-10-28
title = "Kick-starting a new project: memos!"
content = """
I like the concept of leaving a log of short entries on a regular basis.

I am not so good at publishing blog posts frequently, somehow the barrier is
too high for me.

Let's try with a shorter form, and also because it's fun to explore project
ideas.

Stand-alone, short, and sweet entries following the idea of micro-blogging, but
why follow the arbitrary limit of 136 characters? I will keep them short but
that's because I want to.
"""

[[articles]]
date = 2021-10-29
title = "Hand-writing an HTML prototype"
content = """
After a decade or two, I am back to hand-crafting an HTML page.

Today, I am prototyping the very page of this project: a list of memos. (That is
so meta.) It turns out bare HTML is still as easy as pie, styling is the real
deal.
"""

[[articles]]
date = 2021-10-29
title = "Exploring (basic) styling"
content = """
I neither want nor need something complicated. Since the idea is to have a
<em>minimal</em> engine to publish byte-sized content every now and then, I want
to follow suit with the styling and not spend countless hours trying to get it
perfect. It has to be simple, <em>and</em> easy to implement. (Wishful
thinking!)

I will certainly look into minimalistic CSS solutions out there. I have almost
no skills in that area and <em>I know</em> how painful it is to test and have it
right. Been there, done that.
"""

[[articles]]
date = 2021-10-29
title = "Customising <em>pico</em>, a minimal CSS framework for semantics nerds"
content = """
It's not <em>only</em> for nerds but the facts speak for themselves: there is a
"classless" version that simply styles all basic HTML tags.
No additional classes needed.

Now, I am trying to tweak a few things such as aligning the date-stamp to the
right.
"""

[[articles]]
date = 2021-10-29
title = "Let's get ready for the future: with tags"
tags = ["CSS", "Prototyping"]
content = """
I already planned for a couple of features for a next version.
Tags are well recognised in the blogosphere, they are a dynamic free-form of
grouping articles together by themes.

Let's take a sneak peek at what it could look like with the current stylesheet.
"""

[[articles]]
date = 2021-10-29
title = "A first step to improve “reader mode”, <em>a.k.a.</em> metadata"
content = """
I am a big fan of the "reader mode" in Firefox.
It couples a gentle sepia tone with distraction-free content, great for long
pieces of text.

It turns out that you don't want to forget the basic HTML metadata such as
author in the page header.
"""

[[articles]]
date = 2023-08-20
title = "Revived and published"
content = """
I have another project I would like to work on and I though it was a perfect
opportunity to finally push the "memos" online.

Of course plumbing is a pain: I just spent at least a full hour looking at DNS,
NS records, static web hosting, and other unwieldy concepts.
I ended up pushing the static files to
<a href="https://git.sr.ht/~docbibi/memos">a repository on SourceHut</a> and
using my domain with <a href="https://srht.site/">their hosting</a> for now.

Now onto how to make it easier for me to publish… (Or should I simply spin-up
an instance of <a href="https://microblog.pub">microblog.pub</a>?)
"""

[[articles]]
date = 2023-10-29
title = "Sunday mornings"
content = """
Somehow I always end up with tech ideas on Sunday mornings.

Is it because I am “refreshed” after a Saturday focused on chores and family
activities? Or maybe it's the “relaxed” time it takes me to whip up the Sunday
breakfast (waffles, pancakes, or crêpes).

I don't often take much action to follow-up on these ideas. Today is different.
Today I am taking notes. Today I am actually doing something else than rambling
in my heads. Today it is on paper. (And now digital.)
"""