blog.phor.net

How to maintain this site and add posts.

Comments

Every blog post can link to an official Twitter thread (or a comment thread hosted anywhere) as well as notable comments and media coverage across the web.

When publishing a post, add comments in the front matter like this:

comments:
  - link: https://twitter.com/fulldecent/status/1486181100904980482
    name: '@fulldecent'
    text: The official Twitter thread
  - link: https://fulldecent.blogspot.com/2004/06/are-you-badass-with-c-then-fix-this.html?showComment=1087170900000#c108717092705622985
    name: Tyler
    date: 
    text: "You were very close to getting the solution"

Ideally, you want to link a Twitter post and other good media coverage to each blog post.

Asides

Article text usually displays in the left two-thirds of the page.

Use the right third for some side notes like this:

{: .margin-note}
Some margin note paragraph text

This syntax is explained at https://kramdown.gettalong.org/quickref.html

Article images

If a raster image is used just for editorial (detail not needed), scale down to 800 px.

Make a featured image with the same basename as the post and put it in /assets/images. Include it like:

![Fair random immediate decentralized](/assets/images/2022-02-04-Randomization strategies for NFT drops.svg)

For other images, put in folder like /assets/images/2021-12-03-a-post/xxxyyy.png and link like this:

![Fair random immediate decentralized](/assets/images/2022-02-04-Randomization strategies for NFT drops/Fair random immediate decentralized.svg)

Style guide

The blog's name is in title case. Everything else, including post titles, is sentence case.

Discussion of best practices

Jekyll does not have a good, built-in way of directly associating images to posts (i.e. putting them in the _posts folder). Other people have thoughtful discussions and prescriptions about this problem:

Tool

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> <span style="color:blue">Steven Shim:</span> ok the riddle ... it's not possible, because 8x + 6y = 5 does not have a solution where you can use integers, so there is no way to get 3 or 1 gallons from the mix.... otherwise you'd be able to get 5 gallons. is this right?<br />
> <span style="color:red">Full Decent: xml asap!!!</span><br />
> <span style="color:blue">Steven Shim:</span> because the lowest common denominator is 1

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