Neopoligen Introduction Notes

Head's up: I'm actively overhauling my site builder right now. To wit:

Most images and lots of links are broken
Code blocks don't wrap and don't have syntax highlighting
Other miscellaneous formatting and functionality is off

Please excuse the mess while I put things back together

Introduction

These are my scratch notes for making a Neopoligen introduction. Not sure these will all be included but they are some thoughts.

reducing all the friction
we have this incredible thing, but we've made it hard to use
why I'm doing this. moral obligation. if we are creating things we'll be less pissed at each other
you can post your stuff without ads in front of it
when folks visit your site, they see what you decide to put up, not what an algoritm does
talk about enshittification
p5 example
d3 example
threejs
greensap (or whatever the 3d library is called)
graphviz
latex example
meme example
youtube embed
vimeo embed
spotify embed
soundcloud embed
bandcamp embed
want to give the opportunity for the joy I had to my neices and nephews
your own videos not on youtube
See if there's music notation out there
throw your own javascript on the page
throw your own css on the page
through your own HTML on the page
show code snippets that are live on the page
making galleries
rss feed
webring feed
show tables
show detail lists
mermaid for flowcharts (tbd on what that would require, looks like it might have to be a plugin)
maybe: https://ffoodd.github.io/chaarts/bar-charts.html
no analytics (though you can add it if you like)
podcast
The app doesn't track you or what you do with it. I don't send any usage or analytics back to myself. I don't have to track metric on growth becaue
blockquote, but show adding the extra stuff like author and links
no javascript required, it's all templates but you can add any javascript you want either yours or any of the amazing libraries out there
investigate: ThreeJS, BabylonJS, PixiJS, GSAP, MotionOne, CannonJS, Oimo, MatterJS, Lottie animations
Not designed for collaboration. You can use it that way if you put in some of your own effort, but it's design goal is for making personal sites and folks to show off their arts, crafts, hobbies, memes,
Show ilinks and tlinks and tablinks
Show images
Show mp4s (gonna call them clips since they aren't GIFs)
Show how it reads alt text from images
Testing for themes so you can make sure you don't break things when poking at them (but you can turn it off and just look at things which is what I do most of the time) I mainly use that when first making a full theme and then turn it off when I start tweaking it
automatically put in the stuff that tells ai bots not to scrape your stuff
show deploy to netlify
show adding your own domain name
Make a meme tag for images - Maybe that's a good one to show in the video for making a new one where you just copy image to start with and then update the way the format looks with the CSS or whatever. Like maybe you put in your text to show below it. (which maybe you don't have in the initial image) but do make sure to show alt text.
There will eventually be a built in editor, but you'll need your own for right now. If you don't already have a preference, I recommend VS Code which is free. I'll link to it below.
Point out that it's for folks who are willing to tinker a bit. Things will get smoother over time, but it's still very early software
TBD on waiting to launch with the Tauri app. I think it might be worth it since that's the real goal.
Show basic built-in templates first, but also show how to make a custom one. Probably just copy a folder to start with.
Point out that the intro doesn't go into deatils about how to actually do the build, but you're just gonna fast forward through all the steps to show what it looks like. Specific details on the site.
Point to personal site as demo of what you can do
No VC function - gonna run it myself to see what it's like to build something specifically and intentionally without it. (I'm working off savings for now and will figure it out as I go)
RSS feeds - basic the plans for second one that shows feeds from who you're following as a type of webring.

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