Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
by awanderingmind on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @07:04AM
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Hey! You have some interesting content. If you had a rss/atom feed I'd happily subscribe to it.
A comment on your site: I have to zoom to 300% on firefox to get what seems like a 'natural' view. Without this it feels like I'm viewing a pdf. This is not serious criticism, but something that bothered me a bit. Others may feel differently.
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
by octed on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @10:01AM
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I've been wanting to add RSS to it for a while tbh but I've been consistently distracted by other things. Since classes are over I might get around to it eventually.
As for the pdf look, you're right. The problem I encountered way back when I was actually building the site was that I didn't know what to put on the extra margins. I could've put footnotes and figures, but that's pretty hard to do if you're generating the site from markdown without a custom markdown engine. I'll see what I can do about it tho, and if you have any suggestions for how I could improve this I'm all ears.
Re:Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
by awanderingmind on Thursday July 06, 2023 @03:08AM
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No specific advice I'm afraid - although I guess you could try just expanding the entire page and leave the margins blank?
In any case, keep on writing!
It's pretty new, first post was made in September of 2022. I've been going at the speed of ~1 post per month since then so I got 8 posts.
I mostly talk about stuff I've been learning about. For instance:
1. Lagrangian mechanics I [https://oktagonia.github.io/blog/lanlifshitz_1/notes.html] and II [https://oktagonia.github.io/blog/lanlifshitz_2/notes.html]
2. Group theory (solubility and symmetric groups in particular) [https://oktagonia.github.io/blog/insolubility/p.html]
Besides this, I occasionally write about some of my own explorations as well; stuff that doesn't fit as neatly into a university course format:
1. Going over a random lemma from Newton's Principia [https://oktagonia.github.io/blog/lemma14/lemma14.html]
2. Encoding ternary logic into the lambda calculus (I previously posted on HN) [https://oktagonia.github.io/blog/ternary/ternary.html]
3. Some epistemological ideas (tbh this is not very good and I intend to write a better post about this stuff soon) [https://oktagonia.github.io/blog/pragsol/p.html]
I hope you guys enjoy and give me some feedback if you got some.