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Another woeful month @medium. After 971 high-quality stories (e.g., no write-arounds ever), I am doing worse by every measure than in my first year or even two years ago.

The boost program seems to have lost all rhyme or reason, and the new "featured stories" label is no help (they do no better than others). Medium posts with titles like "Your Story Matters" make it worse if you can see that it *doesn't* matter.

If you like to read 2,300 words about when I got on the Internet for the first time, and how it was and why, I have you covered:

michaelnordmeyer.com/in-1993-i

I probably wrote it more for myself and don’t think many people will find their way to this post.

Michael Nordmeyer · In 1993 I Went on the Internet for the First TimeThe Internet was scarce, slow, and expensive, but very exciting.

Yesterday, I noticed Benedkit has archived the repository of #Hugo #Vitae theme:

github.com/dataCobra/hugo-vita

I've been using this theme for a long time for my personal blog(which has got a very top notch domain!). Recently, a group of #Persian #FOSS contributors and I added #RTL and #bidirectional text support to Vitae. We had forgotten to send a PR upstream. As I found Benedikt is no longer interested in maintaining vitae, I took over and also moved the code hosting to codeberg:

codeberg.org/farooqkz/hugo-vit

The first thing I did was merging RTL support but a regression happened. And someone opened an issue while the repository was still hot, reporting a regression. I fixed the regression. Now Vitae supports both LTR and RTL. There are few "meta" things which still needs to be done tho.

If you want to see a website with vitae but RTL, see my Persian blog:

blogfa.farooqkz.com

Vitae is a blog theme for Hugo that focuses on your content. - dataCobra/hugo-vitae
GitHubGitHub - dataCobra/hugo-vitae: Vitae is a blog theme for Hugo that focuses on your content.Vitae is a blog theme for Hugo that focuses on your content. - dataCobra/hugo-vitae

A – Z Challenge: Zero-click searches

Zero-click searches are a fascinating yet puzzling topic that I've recently stumbled upon, and to be honest, I don't know much about them. The concept revolves around search engine results that provide answers directly on the results page, eliminating the need for users to actually click on a link. It’s intriguing to consider how this could affect our behaviors online. Are we becoming more reliant on these quick snippets of information, or are we losing our deeper engagement with the […]

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