Through much trial and even more error, I have finagled @pimoore’s wonderful Tufte theme to organize itself into a scripting.com-like chronological/reverse-chronological format. The next step is to fix everything I broke in the process. And to find ever better fonts, of course.
@miljko Very nice! It’s always interesting to see different takes on Tufte, and what people end up doing with it. I’ve considered doing the same thing with my micro posts, as I really like the idea of it promoting/displaying them as a journal. I feel as though it would also encourage more regular writing in that regard.
Fonts are such a huge rabbit hole. As someone who loves typography and is a sucker for custom fonts, I may be putting that aside and going with the Modern Font Stack instead. The nice thing about it is the different style groups that suit almost any visual look one could want, but using fonts common across all operating systems and devices. This means better performance without any dreaded FOUT (Flashes Of Un-styled Text), the drawback of course being not every device will be using the exact same font when viewing your site.
I’m going to think about it some more, as every time I see sites using Merriweather—one of my favourites—for example, I lose my nerve to resist beautiful custom fonts. 😂
(Not naming names, but those of you tempting me with Merriweather know who you are…) 😉
@miljko I'd like to see that (and how you did it). That's exactly what I've done with my daily.baty.net blog but I built it with Tinderbox because I never found a good way to do it with Hugo.
@pimoore Hah, I almost went with Merriweather but the "Old Style" font stack was just what I wanted, in both looks and performance. Thank you!!!
@jack I looked all over stack exchange for how to make Hugo do this, but ultimately all it took was a search in micro.blog's own support forum. It was @jsonbecker's website that showed me it was possible in the first place, so it only made sense that he would have provided the instructions. Thank you, Jason!
@pimoore, this format definitely makes me more relaxed about frequent short posts. Most people may not be reading it on the website itself, but it still matters to me that it looks good.
@miljko If I don’t cave to custom font pressure, old-style will be my choice as well. I love classic—and classy—serif fonts.
@miljko @jack @jsonbecker Seconding the thanks to Jason for sharing his code for this format. I actually had it bookmarked already, so maybe now this will be the reminder and impetus to actually use it. 😆
@miljko @pimoore @purisubzi @jack I take it a step further by hiding all non-title posts from my archive. The result is something I feel fine cross posting and feel good about read, in context, largely recent stuff, while not having short posts be a long term focus or easily found once their time as faded.
@jsonbecker @miljko @purisubzi @jack This is something I’m likely going to do as well, or at least only allow certain categories into the archive. As you point out most short posts are ephemeral in nature, with the exception of say a quote or poem.
@jsonbecker @miljko @pimoore How do you do this also with macro posts (> 300 chars) without a title?
@pratik my check for inclusion in the archive is has title, not length. Sometimes I title posts that are just a photo.
@pratik there are checks for if a post summary is truncated, but I think that Hugo sets that at 500. There’s almost certainly a way to count characters but it almost certainly wouldnt be the same algorithm for what counts as MB. There’s a len function you could pipe content to
