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Neopoligen Introduction Notes

Introduction

These are my scratch notes for making a Neopoligen introduction. Not sure these will all be included but they are some thoughts.

  • reducing all the friction
  • we have this incredible thing, but we've made it hard to use
  • why I'm doing this. moral obligation. if we are creating things we'll be less pissed at each other
  • you can post your stuff without ads in front of it
  • when folks visit your site, they see what you decide to put up, not what an algoritm does
  • talk about enshittification
  • p5 example
  • d3 example
  • threejs
  • greensap (or whatever the 3d library is called)
  • graphviz
  • latex example
  • meme example
  • youtube embed
  • vimeo embed
  • spotify embed
  • soundcloud embed
  • bandcamp embed
  • want to give the opportunity for the joy I had to my neices and nephews
  • your own videos not on youtube
  • See if there's music notation out there
  • throw your own javascript on the page
  • throw your own css on the page
  • through your own HTML on the page
  • show code snippets that are live on the page
  • making galleries
  • rss feed
  • webring feed
  • show tables
  • show detail lists
  • mermaid for flowcharts (tbd on what that would require, looks like it might have to be a plugin)
  • maybe: https://ffoodd.github.io/chaarts/bar-charts.html
  • no analytics (though you can add it if you like)
  • podcast
  • The app doesn't track you or what you do with it. I don't send any usage or analytics back to myself. I don't have to track metric on growth becaue
  • blockquote, but show adding the extra stuff like author and links
  • no javascript required, it's all templates but you can add any javascript you want either yours or any of the amazing libraries out there
  • investigate: ThreeJS, BabylonJS, PixiJS, GSAP, MotionOne, CannonJS, Oimo, MatterJS, Lottie animations
  • Not designed for collaboration. You can use it that way if you put in some of your own effort, but it's design goal is for making personal sites and folks to show off their arts, crafts, hobbies, memes,
  • Show ilinks and tlinks and tablinks
  • Show images
  • Show mp4s (gonna call them clips since they aren't GIFs)
  • Show how it reads alt text from images
  • Testing for themes so you can make sure you don't break things when poking at them (but you can turn it off and just look at things which is what I do most of the time) I mainly use that when first making a full theme and then turn it off when I start tweaking it
  • automatically put in the stuff that tells ai bots not to scrape your stuff
  • show deploy to netlify
  • show adding your own domain name
  • Make a meme tag for images - Maybe that's a good one to show in the video for making a new one where you just copy image to start with and then update the way the format looks with the CSS or whatever. Like maybe you put in your text to show below it. (which maybe you don't have in the initial image) but do make sure to show alt text.
  • There will eventually be a built in editor, but you'll need your own for right now. If you don't already have a preference, I recommend VS Code which is free. I'll link to it below.
  • Point out that it's for folks who are willing to tinker a bit. Things will get smoother over time, but it's still very early software
  • TBD on waiting to launch with the Tauri app. I think it might be worth it since that's the real goal.
  • Show basic built-in templates first, but also show how to make a custom one. Probably just copy a folder to start with.
  • Point out that the intro doesn't go into deatils about how to actually do the build, but you're just gonna fast forward through all the steps to show what it looks like. Specific details on the site.
  • Point to personal site as demo of what you can do
  • No VC function - gonna run it myself to see what it's like to build something specifically and intentionally without it. (I'm working off savings for now and will figure it out as I go)
  • RSS feeds - basic the plans for second one that shows feeds from who you're following as a type of webring.
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