I was once told that for a time i kept my blog in a state, that was comparable to leave your baby, which you have put in a lot of effort into, in the gutter. A very direct comment, but not to be dismissed. At that time , i tried to repair as much as possible. But there is a spiral down to the gutter, when you are not working frequently on it.
Together with migrating to a Gitea actions based workflow to publish blog entries, i decided to do at least try a yearly spring cleaning in the blog. This spring cleaning was in the last few evenings and for the link repair it will take a few additional days.
What i have done so far
- The blog is now hardwired to dark mode. I just like it better this way.
- I now try to add a description to at least each blog entry. For a few recent ones i already added them to existing blog entries.
- I have changed the fonts. Instead of Noto, I’m now using Atkinson Hyperlegible Next and Aktkinson Hyperlegible Mono. The Hyperlegible fonts have an interesting story behind them. They are meant for people with low vision. I think this font is really easy to read. And it looks good.
- The blog has now a reading time guesstimator. Usual word count divided by constant algorithm.
- I corrected dead links when i saw them. But there are more.
- My two step processes (staging and production) is now working again.
- Slight correction to the data privacy statement. For a long time the blog isn’t using any cookies, counting pixels and the logfiles are anonymized by the webspace provider, rule of no embedding, locallized fonts. I put a preface on the statement page, indicating this. I’m simply not interested in having any personal data. To an extreme.
Future
However, there is a large job in front of me. The template is using the @import directive. It’s deprecated now and my logfiles are just not piling up, because i supressed those messages. At some point in time i have to migrate it. But not now …
Another projects for the future is a nice integration of a table of content. I have the tendency to write long blog entries. But the standard table of content in this blog entry doesn’t look really nice. I’m working on a better integration. This is one of the reason why got the two stages approach working.