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📆 February 25, 2023 | ⏱️ 2 minute read | 🏷️ journal updates
A lot of progress has been made on my journal theme. Let's start with the most exciting stuff, the new features:
Added inline link support¹ for HTML without breaking Gemini. Inline links are important for getting the most out of both Gemini and the Web.
Implemented taxonomies² and implemented taxonomy Atom feeds³.
Implemented terms⁴ and implemented term Atom feeds⁵. This allows for tagging entries. Given the volume of content on my journal and its diversity of subject, tags were becoming necessary for organizational purposes.
Added quote styling.⁶
Started versioning the Hugo theme⁷ using Semantic Versioning⁸.
I also made a few major improvements and fixed lots of bugs. Here are the highlights:
Stopped formatting preformatted text for Gemini.⁹ It sounds trivial, but Hugo templates only support regex for text-manipulation. So the number of efficient solutions was probably limited to just the one chunk-parsing algorithm I designed and implemented.
Overhauled the CSS¹⁰, making it BEM-compliant.
Fixed bold/italics removal logic for Gemini.¹¹
The journal itself has seen some important changes:
Added back I2P support.¹² Since the Tor network has been under a constant DDoS attack for the past few months¹³, it makes sense to mirror everything on I2P in case v3 onions become unreachable.
Expanded files subdomain access to Gemini.¹⁴
Painstakingly converted all entry links to inline links. It was tedious, but it needed to be done. It makes Web links look much better.
I think my writing itself has also improved. I think it's become more focused. I often want to put lots of extra details in my journal entries, but I've learned that I need to exclude details to make entries more enjoyable to read. I've learned to take the reader into consideration more while writing.
All the features I wanted to implement in my journal theme have been implemented, except for internationalization. After I implement that, I'll just need to polish up and document the code and it'll be ready for the first official release.
So far I've added a few tags to group entries by topic. I plan to be conservative about adding new tags. Most entries are still untagged and I still need to decide which new tags to add. If anyone has any advice or experience with that, please share it with me¹⁵.
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