Intros are hard

Infinite Jest is my white whale. I've tried to read it so many times but I always get stuck. I don't know what it is, loving the book on principle but being humbled by its reality. Relevant to us, though, is it's huge number of footnotes. It's a key feature of the book, where the content of the footnotes sometimes take us the audience on a journey far away from the context of the page that it is pretending to help explain. Indeed, some of the footnotes have their own footnotes…

I just added in the ability to render videos in my blog, and in so doing came across a question I hadn't considered before: how do I reserve space for a video that loads after the page does? Also, are videos loaded after page load, or what's the deal there?

Turns out: yes! You can reserve space for a video. In my case…

Zola is wonderful. It builds quickly, it's extremely configurable, but it is (by design) not well suited for interactive elements or complex JavaScript. I hadn't thought I wanted that until I saw some on Amos's site. He ended up using iframes to manage that integration, which is a perfectly acceptable solution. But it did make me wonder: can we accomplish the same result without all of that nasty ugly HTML? Can we just write some clean JS and call it a day?

Let's find out…