Post-driven permanent blog pages
I have a few “permanent” pages on this blog.
An example is the /speaking page.
I used to maintain this page as a separate static HTML page:
every time I did a talk, I would edit the page.
I’ve changed tactic.
Now, the talks page is generated from all blog posts tagged with talk.
Those posts are embedded in the page, resulting in a list of videos.
The advantages are clear:
- The page is updated using my normal work flow: create another post file.
- There is a separate URL for each talk, if people wish to link to them separately.
- They’re naturally in date order.
I think this principle can be extended to other “permanent” pages.
For example, I’d like to maintain a /projects page,
giving a short description of each project
(such as Vidrio, The Realtime Guild, Strip Casino, ...).
Each description could be taken as
the content of the latest post with
{ "project": "vidrio", "tags": ["project_description", ...] }.
This would encourage re-writing the description each time I want to update it.
I think this is a good thing!
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