Writings

• Mirror: ISIS propaganda magazine Rumiyah

• Gwern.net: print mode CSS: looks much better, pages should print reasonably now (eg. icons aren’t screwed up, transclusions expand so nothing is lost, layout looks like regular pages more)

• Minor Gwern.net changes since August 2022 not covered previously:

  • transcluded link-bibliographies, similar-links, and backlinks: these are now transcluded at the bottom of the page so you can “just keep reading”.

    The links at the top of pages/annotations will continue to popup in desktop mode (as expected), but in mobile in popins, they instead jump down to the transcluded version (as opposed to creating a new popin for what might be a disappointment). This should feel pretty natural and friction-free.

    • similar-links/backlinks transclude by default at the end of annotations as well, similarly enabling ‘just keep reading’ and jumping-to-anchor behavior

  • ‘partial’ link annotations: links which don’t have a true annotation but do have some metadata like tags or backlinks will not be marked as annotated links, but they will still pop up a bare-bones annotation showing what is known about that link. This avoids promising the reader too much; if you hover over a link, you know not to expect too much, and maybe what there is will be useful.

  • backlinks: now display the context of the reverse citation in the original page (like their popup but displayed b default via transclusion)

  • collapses: uncollapse on hover in popups/tag-directories

  • popup speed optimizations

  • WP annotations: lots of small style/bug-fixes to various special-cases like big inline images or mismatched curly quotes (due to a truly ancient bug, turns out, so old that it’s due to JavaScript changing how for-in works (!)) or thumbnails, removing admonitions & ‘list of X’ sidebar infoboxes

  • similar-links embeds with more metadata like backlinks, and filters out several kinds of unhelpful links now; these should increase relevance; backlinks also filter out more

  • transclude templating system

  • a justification+hyphenation A/B test has begun to measure if the book-like indentation has measurably harmful effects; if it does, guess we’ll revert to the more Internet-standard approach of no-indentation+newline.

  • similar-links/backlinks: automatically put into multi-columns if an improved heuristic says to (lots of previous multi-column lists were incorrect and shouldn’t’ve been in columns because the entries were too few and/or text too long)

    • JS works around flaws in backlinks analysis to guess the intended anchor

  • remove a lot of compile-only or unused classes/IDs from the HTML to simplify it

  • Windows: force Source Sans use so ToCs look a lot better (the default font stack, while well-intentioned, looked bad)

  • lots of renaming

  • obviously, tons of minor bug fixes, added link icons, added link-live domains, tests and checks (eg. a PHP script for dumping all defined HTML classes from the final compiled HTML was quite helpful in linting and finding a number of misspelled or outdated classes in content pages), in addition to the usual daily drumbeat of writing annotations & adding links…

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