I am in the process of adding commenting to this blog.
Starting October 2nd, 2023, after watching Tyler Cowen on David Perell's new show "How I Write", I got inspired to rebuild my blog, and have a database-powered comment system. My goals were:
Starting October 2nd, 2023, after watching Tyler Cowen on David Perell's new show "How I Write", I got inspired to rebuild my blog, and have a database-powered comment system. My goals were:
- Be able to post from the web (my hugo blog tobilehman.com has no back-end, so I can't post from the web, I have to write markdown and compile the html. Also comments are only possible if I outsource the commenting to commento.io or disqus.com)
- Post Every Day
- Get feedback in the form of comments and likes
- Allow people to auth with their Facebook/Google/X/Apple login provider
I've reached goal 1, I can post from the web, and I've even posted from my phone. For goal 2, here's a histogram of the number of days between posts:
I've got up to 4 days between consecutive posts in the worst case, but modally, most posts are within 1 day of their time neighbor.
For 3 and 4, I am working on that right now. I've gotten nerdsniped by this new Webauthn standard and the Passkeys credentials format. I have passkeys-rails added to this app, but I still need to implement the Webauthn flow, which would let iOS and Android users. This passkeys.dev has some good demos and documentation.