mananamanana.com website

After 20+ years, mananamanana.com moves to Github, Jekyll, and all that, and away from the hand-crafted html and spacer.gifs of yore. We still don't jetpacks but, hey, we have markdown files and Github actions at least. Automagical website!

The long-dormant front page has been migrated to a Jekyll blog, based on { Personal } Jekyll Theme. Also transformed is /ohpiglet, continuing to chart the lives of the three monkeys and a woodland creature of the forest floor that we found up a tree. Originally a Tumblr, then a WordPress, and now a Jekyll blog.

My changes

• Orangeified it, of course.
• I've simplified the menu nav bar to be more old-school - direct links, no if statements.
• Removed a bunch of stuff I don't need.
• Dark mode yo!

Create a new blogpost

Go to the /_posts folder and create a file with the name of the form YYYY-MM-DD-foo.md.

Add the boilerplate content like this:

---
layout: post
section-type: post
title: Foo
tags: [ '' ]
---

Lorem ipsum dolor.

<img src="{{site.baseurl}}/img/YYYY/image-name.jpg" alt="alt text.">

Update the title, edit/delete tags, etc. Oh, and add some content.

Upload any images to the /img/YYYY folder.

Add video responsively

GitHub doesn't accept uploading of video so I use Vimeo or YouTube. The default embed codes from those hosts, however, doesn't play nice on mobile. To generate responsive embed code that does play nice on desktop and mobile go to http://embedresponsively.com.

How to run locally

Install jekyll and dependencies:

./scripts/install

Build locally:

./scripts/serve-production

View a totally unrepresentative local version:

http://127.0.0.1:4000

Troubleshoot the Gemfile nonsense

JFC, what the fuck even are gemfiles?

Anyway, they break stuff and bundler blah blah and you can fix it repeatedly with monkey-see monkey-do from here.

RSS feed

The RSS feed is automatically generated and placed in /feed.xml.

Sitemap

The Sitemap is automatically generated and placed in /sitemap.xml.

Generate tag pages

./scripts/generate-tags

TODO

A rolling to do list, with a satisfying 'Done' section at the bottom.

Next up

• Add commenting to /ohp
• Return everything to /mm subdomains not github urls
• Outsider article by Jim (messy html)- Old article on kayaking in Latin America. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1_YJBqhCeoOoxnwT-yUzRvd3xRamiMJh1
• Outsider article by Coran (pdf) on Grand Canyon
• About - Explain history of mm.com with screengrabs of old frontpages, talk about inventing blogging, losing content to fb
• old landing pages

Not Important/Later

• Can I build FB archive? - It's under settings & privacy, apparently.
• Reorg the submenu so that new pages are not buried in /then
• add webmentions
• add dark mode - like in https://mademistakes.com/mastering-jekyll/how-to-link/
• add activitypub
• add search bar
• RSS FEED - The RSS feed is automatically generated and placed in /feed.xml.
• SITEMAP - The Sitemap is automatically generated and placed in /sitemap.xml

Drafts folder and list of ideas

Blogposts

• Explain rebuilding gallery
• Eno
• Write about the liberation of creating twitter archive
• The year/week in review
• List of top 100 books - like https://www.openculture.com/2013/10/david-bowies-list-of-top-100-books.html
• Manifesto -- Vitsoe.com 10 rules -- Dieter rams 10 principles of good design
• Reason for... blogpost
• Rumours of firewood
• Write about Llavorsí
• Write about shed
• Public commitment to build a thing a week
• Dubliners map, mastodon.ie, bot
• Mastodon Book Toot

Inspiring ideas

• https://kwon.nyc/colophon/ - plausible and typefaces
• Weeknotes - a blogpost ever week, just compiling things you do in the week - https://tomstu.art/weeknotes-204-expensive-coffee
• https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/where-have-all-the-websites-gone/

From Rebecca

Contact lenses Tolstoy book Writing Llavorsí The woman from the supermarket Queen on the plaza Error as a parenting strategy Error as a partnering strategy Duelling short stories I am a cliché Bag of courgettes The mountain spring Transitions Desire Take away the elements of non importance How would you write it I have written nothing for 52 years Dynamite the tunnel Aggressive impulses. Clean the kitchen Feelings are what you feel Use glasses Don't use glasses What would Rebecca do What would Saoirse do Waterfalls Writing as engineering Economy of family Do we need doors Psychology of small animals Psychology of small children Psychology of insects Insecurity Resistance Remember winter Assemble the children Just work The centre is outside Baby steps Post orgasmic tickles Fold down the pages Listen in the garden Would anybody read it I am the rhythm, I am the beat Critical velocity Unpaid On call The gaps between thoughts Why not Orange is a sound The hairdresser who now works in the supermarket is a hypochondriac The meditation bench beside the vegetation patch The river runs low

Done

• Add commenting to /mananamanana
• rebuild the gallery in Jekyll
• grand canyon gallery
• splashpages.net
• Fix /ohp Search page to show more that just one page of results.
• Reduce margins on pages and posts, particularly for mobile.
• Domain renewal is due in March 2025. It should be automatic but best to check.
• Tsundoko - My year in books. Keep adding to the list of what I've read.
• remove all content from blacknight
• Herbert Park Rangers Football Club
• remove autorenew ssl cert
• remove autorenew storage pack
• remove Scotland content once it's up on repos
• point name servers to cloudflare
• check Scotland content is still up
• remove all content once it's up on repos
• Dublin Opinion stuff (short blogpost)
• repoint dns from mm to gh
• copy ohpiglet from mm/ohpiglet to github
• download Wordpress ohpiglet content
• remove the splash page and go direct to nu-blog index
• add extra blank h2 to layouts
• Redo favicon, delete old favicon?
• some free goatcounter for metrics
• hprfc
• trips reports (Portugal)
• trips reports (Italy)
• trips reports (Americas)
• Change all absolute links to relative links
• Fix videos, flash, etc. from .txt
• jetcim
• Around.com for single line mission statement - this is covered by About
• add Grand Canyon folder from desktop\
• fix lack of html on latest-post in index
• Contact wp about getting access to mm.wordpress.com
• contact wp about content on old blog, which is still no access but partly on blacknight
• update images on old blog
• Hello World Blogposts

Will not do:

• add Corsica maybe from desktop
• redo 404 page
• sidebar - like https://gwcoffey.com - takes up too much space on mobile
• recipes
• Submenu
• publish draft blogposts in old blog