add initial draft notes - developing-my-blog

TODO.md

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+# TODO
+
+* rewrite 'about me' to make more interesting.
+
+* about me - have all the bolded things be links to articles in my blog
+  e.g., for **SEO** just do some shit like benefits of seo and that 
+
+When enough content done:
+
+* google analytics  
+  Consider google analytics on gitea site too.
+* comments functionality
+
+## FlowMM
+
+extended future version:
+
+stuff learned during project
+
+stuff I would do different if starting again.
+
+* the hero - definitely would use SVG clip paths instead.
+* login form - have on own page, not just a modal.

content/posts/bootstrap-vs-tailwind.md

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+draft = true
+date = 2020-02-19T21:30:06Z
+title = "Bootstrap vs. Tailwind"
+description = ""
+slug = "bootstrap-tailwind"
+categories = []
+tags = ["Bootstrap", "Tailwind", "CSS"]
+series = []
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+
+## what they are?
+
+
+tailwind - utility first css framework
+  utility first - no automatically styled components
+                - gives utility classes that help with styling, allows to build classes
+                    - basically just bunch of predefined css utility classes
+                - creating a project that has a custom look without writing any css.
+bootstrap - UI kit framework - has a default theme and a number of design decisions.
+
+popularity of both - bootstrap most popular and first, tailwind new and upcoming.
+
+## my experiences with both of them.
+
+what i like about both.
+  tailwind - flexibility - modules - can remoe unused modules(?)
+    e.g., reducing amount of screen sizes used in responsive qureies and only keeping those needed - 5 screens
+    (36.4kb) to 2 (15.4kb) [source](https://blog.logrocket.com/tailwind-css-is-it-tomorrows-bootstrap-ebe560f9d00b/)
+    can also use purgecss to remove unused
+    helps with a lot of little thigs like margins, paddings, etc
+
+bootstrap - better for layouts, has a good grid/flex system for layouts.
+  recent versions also contains utility classes
+  - also has components containing javascript
+
+tailwind - people complain about larger filesize (36.4kb?) vs bootstrap (22.1kb? - is this without js tho?)
+  - is this true? does this include all of bootstrap (js, everything???)
+  - look into properly
+
+## what i don't like about both of them.
+
+bootstrap - sites always look same, even with diffeent colour schemes
+  tailwind - doesn't really push sites rto looking same?
+
+bootstrap - big changes to layout mean a lot of changes to code and a battle - tbf this is not what bootstrap is designed for - designed to get UI up and running quickly
+
+tailwind - amount of classes added to markup - very noisy
+  same problem as with atomic css(which is based on?) - getting close to just applying styles inline(what is term for using style tags - it's not inline)
+  - @apply does help tho
+
+## which i prefer and why.
+
+like tailwind for sites where theme is important and I don't want to fight to override styles set by the framework to make it look unique.
+like bootstrap for sites where theme is not important - just want a nice looking, fully functional theme set up quickly. usually personal projects that aren't meant for public.
+actually prefer not to use either - only like to use them on projects where it's not desirable/practicak to be
+spending any time at all on styling - bootstrap probably better in this regard, but prefer customisability of
+tailwind
+
+really like about tailwind (both of them?) - don't need to think up names for css classes!
+
+## the future of both of them.
+
+tailwind comes with laravel(?)
+
+## Example of both
+
+have a nice little card thing styled purely with bootstrap, and the same styled with tailwind.
+talk about how long it took for each and the results.
+maybe have one with default styling from framework, and then another with some customised bits.

content/posts/developing-my-blog.md

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+draft = true
+date = 2020-02-15T12:11:43Z
+title = "Building a Blog with Hugo"
+slug = "my-hugo-blog"
+description = ""
+tags = ["Hugo"]
+categories = ["Blog"]
+series = []
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+
+wanted to build a blog.
+
+decided on hugo.  
+why?
+
+customisation  
+dark mode -- persistence
+material icons, not fontawesome - fontawesome bloated,
+  unfortunately no social icons
+  require only a few icons so decided to use svg and partial templates
+  this does duplicate the code (the rendered code, not the source code - duplication of code is bad in source code) but because of the size of them think this is worth it
+  adds a little to size of page - but don't need to load fontawesome file (although probably cached when using cdn)
+  could have used them as regular assets and included in img tag but why didn't I? 
+
+challenges  
+not knowing Go  
+solution - learn go in y minutes  
+looks an interesting language - would like to learn more when got enough time  
+
+impressions of hugo  
+fast  
+sometimes forget just how fast static sites are  
+
+the future  
+add comments - don't like sound of disquss  
+consider adding google analytics  
+conflicted about google  

content/posts/my-first-wordpress-site.md

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 title = "My First WordpPress Site"
 description = ""
 slug = ""
-tags = []
+tags = ["WordPress"]
-categories = ["WordPress"]
+categories = [""]
 externalLink = ""
 series = []
 +++
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 A made up brewery called **MacFarley's**.
 
-So many things I would do different now!
+So many things I would do different now -- **#whatwasidoing**, **#dontgiveupthedayjob**