🗒️ TODO¶
Estimated time to read: 3 minutes
Functional¶
- Book of Mormon Edition Changes
- Readability
- Ellipses correction
- Indentation
- Centering images
- CSS for quote citations
- Static Navigation (w/ emoji)
- Estimated time to read
- Word count?
- Maybe a little button or slider to adjust the reader's WPM speed
- Icon indicating outgoing links
- JQuery to fetch destination
favicon
- JQuery to fetch destination
- Current Year
- It's 2025, but it won't always be 2025. Rather than make these static values, I need to find some kind of
getDate()ornow(). Once in a while, I compare durations between dates; ideally, I'd find some way to render those comparisons dynamically - President Nelson has passed away. The notes I have on his teachings and sayings are written as if he were alive and well, so I ought to adjust verbiage accordingly.
- It's 2025, but it won't always be 2025. Rather than make these static values, I need to find some kind of
Em Dashes¶
One big item that I'm going to need to tackle eventually is my use of em dashes. They're not inherently bad or wrong, but my understanding is that they're a telltale sign of AI-generate content. I don't have a whole lot of experience using AI for text generation, but my limited experience is that yes, LLM's sure do like using em dashes more than biological humans in meatspace do. To date, I haven't used any AI on this site's content. I don't expect that I will, either.
If you were to look through the commit history for these pages of notes, you'd find how many times I use HTML entities for unusual characters. That's because I can't be arsed to remember which unicode combination resolves to the character I'm imagining, so typing in — is easier. I also make liberal use of for whitespace and line breaks. It makes the unrendered text harder to read, but it's meant to be consumed after rendering, so that's a non-issue (to me)
So at some point, I'll need to track down each and every em dash used to re-evaluate, because that's what robots use. I guess. It's on my to-do list.
Update: as of late August 2025, I've removed most (but not all) — instances. A few stuck around because I think they fit. Next time I summon up some patience, I'll sort through the "actual" em-dashes that are not represented by an HTML entity.
Topics¶
I have a word-count plugin for my text editor I write these notes in, and (as of 2025 September) I have just over 371,610 words of unfinished notes, and 207,881 words in the publicly available notes. For many of these (unlisted) topics, I have some existing notes but they aren't in a presentable condition. Others, I've yet to write down some thoughts on. No, I’m not differentiating them here in this list. I have a day job, is all. I'll get to it. I'll write things as inspiration strikes.