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20<p class="subtitle" role="doc-subtitle">Re-organizing my writing workflow and website</p>
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25It has been a while since I wrote something here, and I think the reason for that is…
26writing is not really central to my day-to-day “flow”. For example, I do write <i>a lot</i> as
27I do journaling. But writing a blog post or an article is longer, and usually, it is
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32I am currently trying to re-organize a bit the website and my publishing workflow to
33reduce as much as possible the “noise” between when and what I write and when and where it
34is published. I think I’ve been inspired by <a href="https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden">Joel’s digital garden</a> article.
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39For as long as I’ve been writing words on the internet, I’ve connected the words that I create in a paginated chronological format. This is the “traditional” blog style website. A linear newest-first sorted chronologically oriented list of posts.
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43I’m convinced that paginated posted sorted chronologically fuckin’ sucks.
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47What makes a garden is interesting. It’s personal. Things are organized and orderly, but with a touch of chaos around the edges.
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51Just like plants in the garden I’ve got posts that are in various stages of growth and nurturing. Some might wither and die, and others (like this one you are reading) will flourish and provide a source of continued for the gardener and folks in community that visit 👋
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55Chronologically sorted pages of posts aren’t how people actually use the internet.
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60I am also going to re-design a little bit (as little as possible really) to be even more
61aligned with my current “thoughts”. And there, I am taking inspiration from <a href="https://www.la-grange.net/">La Grange</a> from
62<a href="https://www.la-grange.net/karl/">Karl Dubost</a>. Karl keeps the “design” (or style or whatever) of its page as they are / were
63when he is published the content. This means, a page written 10 years ago, will be
64rendered the same (<i>with devil in details if the browser changed something or course</i>), 10
65years ago or now. And, <i>for some reason</i>, this is <b>really</b> appealing to me. I am slowing
66and incrementally trying to achieve that. Also, <i>note</i> that the redesign is very subtle
67as, the more I am looking at the current theme, the more most of it seems good enough for me.
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71I am also making sure I keep an <a href="../sandbox.html">sandbox</a> page always <mark>up-to-date</mark>.
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