Sunbird

Welcome to my shed / some would call it a garden / others, a haiku

In the spirit of A) learning in public and B) learning what it means to be open, I'm sharing my blog to-dos, sandbox-style.

I have an iPhone shortcut set up on my home screen that takes me to this post. With the help of Kami's bookmarklet, it should be fairly easy for me to dump my ideas here. That's the Big Idea, anyway.

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Metamorphosis matrix

🐛 = Foundation
🌱 = Structure
🦋 = Nice touches

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To-dos

Aesthetic

• Create a custom bullet point
• Replace upvote with button
• Split posts into months
• Change the font to a cooler, sicker font
• Experiment with a dusty orange or teal palette (Link)
• Add some cutesy text decorations (Link)

Homepage

• Turn the browse by tags section into a card
• Migrate the sunbird to keep the homepage textual
• Align everything to the left
• Give this page a permenant home on the homepage
• Would it be cute if everything was inside of a card? Or should I make them multiple cards to show off my grid skills?

Existing pages

• Change status updates into cards
• Simplify navigation
• Do something with the Meet the Sunbird page
• 🌱 Turn images into Polaroids or add a zoom feature
• 🦋 Override the /404 with a fun message (root: .not-found {})

New pages

• Add an easter egg page
• 🦋 Figure out how to add a fall-back static page for offline mode
• 🦋 Explore image maps
• 🦋 /arabic (combo of LTR and RTL might be a pain)
• 🦋 /license

Footer

• Move a bunch of stuff to the footer
• 🌱 Create custom cursors for the footer links (emoji trail hover options: birds, heart mail, magnifying glass or pin)

Code stuff

• 🦋 Quick view of word count on each of my published posts (Is this a JS plug-in situation? Lol I’m just saying words)

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Won't-dos

Ideas I've killed

• /links
• /user-manual
• Link hover highlights the link in a fun colour