diff --git a/v2/config.toml b/v2/config.toml index 379c4b2..948637f 100644 --- a/v2/config.toml +++ b/v2/config.toml @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ base_url = "https://files.wezm.net/v2" title = "Wesley Moore" -description = "TODO" +description = "Posts by Wesley Moore" # Whether to automatically compile all Sass files in the sass directory compile_sass = true diff --git a/v2/content/about.md b/v2/content/about.md index 31f25aa..17c2eda 100644 --- a/v2/content/about.md +++ b/v2/content/about.md @@ -1,9 +1,5 @@ +++ title = "About" -date = 2020-01-27T08:38:24+11:00 - -[extra] -show_date = false +++ ![Photo of me in Nepal](../images/Photo%20of%20Wesley%20Moore.jpg) diff --git a/v2/content/posts/2020/new-design.md b/v2/content/posts/2020/new-design.md index a200867..f8d5821 100644 --- a/v2/content/posts/2020/new-design.md +++ b/v2/content/posts/2020/new-design.md @@ -7,36 +7,45 @@ date = 2020-01-27T15:42:29+11:00 +++ It's been more than 10 years since I started working on [the previous design] -for this website 😅, although it won't have been public for 10 years until July -2020. This feels like a good point to come up with a one! +for this website 😅. This feels like a good point to come up with a one! The previous design served me well. The uncluttered design focussed on text was fast and responsive. It saw the introduction of new devices like iPad and a gradual increase in mobile display size without needing updating. The new -design aims to retain these features while giving it a lighter feel. I'm using -the [Manrope] variable font for all text. - -Technology wise, the previous site was built with [Nanoc], a Ruby static site -compiler. I've been very happy with Nanoc. As my programming interests have -shifted away from Ruby to Rust in the last decade I wanted to try a Rust static -site compiler. The site is now built with [Zola]. Zola is perhaps not quite as -flexible as Nanoc but I've been able to achieve everything I wanted to with it. -It's super fast and has nice conveniences like live-reload when editing -content. Being a single file native binary also makes installation -straightforward — no need to juggle Ruby versions or install gems. +design aims to retain these features while giving it a lighter, more modern +feel. Inspired by [Chris Krycho] and [Shaun Inman] I've taken to versioning the website instead of attempting to port all the existing content over to the new -technology. This makes the redesign more of a clean slate and leaves old posts +technology. This makes the redesign more of a clean slate and leaves old posts appearing how the did when originally posted. The new site is hosted under the `/v2/` prefix. This allows all existing pages to stay where they are and -retains the `www.wezm.net` domain. +retains the `www.wezm.net` domain. Compared to using a sub-domain it doesn't +mess with DNS or search ranking. I have put redirects in place to direct the +RSS feeds from the previous version to the new feed. -Finally, I've now open sourced [the repository][repo] that the site is generated from. This -is to allow others to see how the site is built and also to submit corrections/fixes -if they're noticed. +The new design uses the [Manrope] variable font for all text. Variable fonts +are a fairly recent addition to the web platform but they have good support +from fairly recent versions of all modern browsers and operating systems. On +older browsers/operating systems the layout will fall back to a sans-serif font. +Webfonts generally come with a non-trivial download cost. However, Manrope is +108kB and being a variable font that includes all weights between 200 and 800, +as well as italic! + +Technology wise, the previous site was built with [Nanoc], a Ruby static site +compiler. I've been very happy with Nanoc over the years but as my programming +interests have shifted away from Ruby to Rust I've wanted to try a Rust static +site compiler. I'm now using [Zola]. Zola is perhaps not quite as flexible as +Nanoc but I've been able to achieve everything I wanted to with it. It's super +fast and has nice conveniences like live-reload when editing content. Being a +single file native binary also makes installation a breeze — no need to juggle +Ruby versions or install gems. + +Finally, I've now made [the repository][repo] that the site is generated from +public. This is to allow others to see how the site is built and permit +corrections/fixes via issue or pull request. [Chris Krycho]: https://v4.chriskrycho.com/2019/my-final-round-of-url-rewrites-ever.html [Shaun Inman]: https://web.archive.org/web/20160422175043/http://shauninman.com/archive/2006/12/04/the_original_heap diff --git a/v2/templates/page.html b/v2/templates/page.html index 67eb7be..004bce5 100644 --- a/v2/templates/page.html +++ b/v2/templates/page.html @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@

{{ page.title }}

- {% if page.extra.show_date | default(value=true) %} + {% if page.date %}