The bmannconsulting.com website
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1---
2date: 2023-07-29T22:12:10.268-08:00
3title: Notes & Homepage Revamp
4categories:
5 - BMC
6tags:
7 - blogging
8 - LogSeq
9 - Digital Garden
10---
11
12This is very much a blogging about blogging (and Digital Garden) post. I've written many words in many places since the last post. Many of those words have been into LogSeq, which I flipped the switch on at the beginning of this year to run this whole site, including my (lapsed) tech [blog]({{ '/blog/' | relative_link }}), and long term [archive]({{ '/archive/' | relative_link }}).
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14I wanted to have one grand intertwingled set of both Digital Garden style Note and Journal pages, as well as all of my archive of posts.
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16But LogSeq is not well suited to blog-style articles. And, the way that it publishes, <a href="https://notes.bmannconsulting.com/#/page/Jan%207th%2C%202023" class="noteslink" target="_notes">it packs everything into a single index.html file</a>, which for my 20 year archive of blog posts was gigantic. It got up to 40MB![^40MB] So someone visiting the site would have to download 40MB ... and only then be able to start interacting with the site.
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18So, I've spent some vacation time this past week[^foodwiki] moving things around. LogSeq had 2000+ archive posts trimmed out of it, and now lives at the [notes.bmannconsulting.com](https://notes.bmannconsulting.com) subdomain. That means that it's a bit smaller, but the `index.html` is still 9MB, and will only grow as a I add more pages. But it works for me, on both desktop and on my phone, using git to sync.
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20I'm calling this site my Homepage. Which is what it is![^neocities] It's the boring domain I picked a long time ago, and this root domain and other subdomains hanging off it is where all my stuff should be.
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22* bmannconsulting.com: This site, my default domain that represents me and "my stuff". A homepage. With a blog. And an archive.
23* [blog.bmannconsulting.com](https://blog.bmannconsulting.com): more personal posts, often around food and local stuff, runs on Micro.blog which powers cross-posting.[^crosspost]
24* [notes.bmannconsulting.com](https://notes.bmannconsulting.com): LogSeq powered, default home page is the Daily Journals
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26And "other stuff", that I can easily keep at subdomains, and maybe do more with in the future:
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28* [twitter.bmannconsulting.com](https://twitter.bmannconsulting.com): my Twitter archive, powered by [Tweetback](https://www.zachleat.com/web/tweetback/)[^twitterarchive]
29* [2022.bmannconsulting.com](https://2022.bmannconsulting.com): a snapshot of late 2022 version of the website, Simply Jekyll edition[^colophon]
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31I'm not convinced I'm going to get back on the regular blog posting schedule. I've fallen off the wagon of RSS _reading_, myself, in part because I'm bouncing around multiple decentralized social networks[^decentsocial], and in part as I said at the beginning -- I'm writing a lot of words in a lot of places already.
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33I may end up doing a weekly round up of the Daily Journal pages from my Notes site. That's usually where I clip links and articles and such. And there's a [feeds]({{ '/feeds/' | relative_link }}) page here again, so my site should be subscribable.
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35[^40MB]: The linked note has a screenshot that shows it at 18MB. You can go [look at the gh-pages branch](https://github.com/bmann/bmcnotes/blob/gh-pages/index.html) to see how big the current version is.
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37[^foodwiki]: The FoodWiki has views & food from around Nanaimo, starting on [July 22nd](https://foodwiki.bmann.ca/July%252022nd%252C%25202023.html). See what I mean? I'm writing a lot of words!
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39[^neocities]: Notwithstanding the [bmann.ca](https://bmann.ca) one page kind of link tree thing I put together on Neocities.
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41[^crosspost]: Anything I post to Micro.blog ends up on Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, Tumblr, and even LinkedIn.
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43[^twitterarchive]: I ran a [Twitter to Github Pages script for many years](https://hawksey.info/blog/2016/08/keeping-your-twitter-archive-fresh-and-freely-hosted-on-github-pages/) that is still up at <https://tweets.bmannconsulting.com>. You can see when the Twitter API finally died in June. Tweetback has the potential to interconnect
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45[^colophon]: There's always a [Colophon]({{ '/notes/colophon/' | relative_links }})
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47[^decentsocial]: Or [DecentSocial](https://notes.bmannconsulting.com/#/page/decentsocial) as the shorthand goes