December 7, 2025

As you may have noticed by my propensity for footnotes sidenotes 1 I just love them so much. Screw the impracticalities, think of the whimsy. I love asides. Likewise there are a lot of small things I come across that either aren’t meaty enough for a full post, or trend so narrowly technical that I feel hesitant about broadcasting (a reticence my college self did not share, just look at my post around setting up my router). I still want them to be searchable as a reference for myself and potentially others, but I want them to take up less presence on the blog (and not be sent out in email blasts). The solution? Snippets!

I’ve added a Snippets section to the blog and header for these smaller posts. They won’t appear on the home page, and won’t get emails (though they will appear in RSS I can get them out if people really care, but I’m not sure if anyone actually consumes my content downstream of RSS so leaving for now. ). I will flag that this isn’t my original idea: like all aspects of this blog that I enjoy it’s been cribbed and adapted and blended from the many blogs that I read and enjoy. In this case, it’s heavily inspired by Alex Chan’s TIL page (their restructuring post says everything that I would better).

I expect to continue iterating around how they’re integrated into the blog 3 After all, half the point of a personal blog is to fiddle with the minutiae of rendering and layout and structuring with bespoke code. (proper post tags coming soon™) but for now I’ve started with two small snippets that stemmed from my Dog-a-Day post: a workaround for downloading restricted Flickr photos and a way to remove your address from Mailchimp templates.

I just love them so much. Screw the impracticalities, think of the whimsy. ↩︎ 1.

After all, half the point of a personal blog is to fiddle with the minutiae of rendering and layout and structuring with bespoke code. ↩︎