Title: Blog update 2021
       Author: Solène
       Date: 15 September 2021
       Tags: blog life
       Description: 
       
       Hello,
       
       This is a simple announce to gather some changes I made to my blog
       recently.
       
       * The web version of the blog now display the articles list grouped by
       year when viewing a tag page, previously it was displaying the whole
       article contents and I think tags were unusable this way, although it
       was so because initially I had two articles when I wrote the blog
       generator and it made sense.
       * The RSS file was embedding the whole HTML content of each article, I
       switched to use the article original plain text format, HTML should
       only be used in a Web browser and RSS is not meant to be dedicated for
       web browsers.  I know this is a step back for some users but many users
       also appreciated this move and I'm happy to not contribute at putting
       HTML everywhere.
       * Most texts are now written using the gemtext format, served raw on
       gemini and gopher and converted into HTML for the http version using
       gmi2html python tool slightly modified (I forgot where I got it
       initially).  I use gemtext because I like this format and often forced
       me to rethink the way I present an idea because I had to separate links
       and code from the content and I'm convinced it's a good thing.  No more
       links named "here" or inlined code hard to spot.
       
       If you think changes could be done on my blog, on the web / gopher or
       gemini version please share your ideas with me, it's also the
       opportunity for me to play with the code of the blog generator cl-yag
       that I absolutely love.
       
       I have been publishing a lot more this year, I enjoy much more sharing
       my ideas or knowledge this way than I used to and writing is also the
       opportunity for me to improve my English and when I compare to the
       first publications I'm proud to see I improved the quality over time (I
       hope so at least).  I got more feedback for strangers reading this
       blog, by mail or IRC and I'm thankful to them, they just drop by to
       tell me they like what I write or that I made a mistake so I can fix
       it, it's invaluable and allows me to make new connections to people I
       would never have reached otherwise.
       
       I should try to find some time and motivation to get back at my Podcast
       publications now but I find it a lot harder to speak than to write some
       text, maybe it would be an habit to take.  We will see soon.