This site is about 99% done apart from the problems with the symlinks as mentioned in the previous blog post and a few features I’d like to add but can’t decide on the implementation.

Comments

The problem with comments is three fold, do I want comments at all? And do I roll my own comment system much like this blog or do I hand it off to a service like Disqus, the easiest solution would just be to say no comments at all! But engagement with potential readers is probably good.

Then the second easiest would be to integrate with Disqus or similar because all the hard work of creating the systems of banning abusive users and spam protection, but at the same time that’s not exactly showing off my own talents as I did lay the foundation for a commenting system during the development of the site but that itself will take some time to develop.

Images

I use QuillJS as the WYSIWYG editor for formatting the blog posts and it can handle embedding images but it does so through Base64 encoding the images and inserting the raw data into content table of the database, this is a very easy way to handle images but it does inflate the size of the database, there is a library to extend QuillJS to enable uploading the image to the server as opposed to Base64 encoding it but I imagine this will end up falling under the symlink problem as before.