Site Redesign

After weeks (or maybe even months) of considerations and playing around with various themes, I’ve decided to migrate from the venerable Hugo-Coder theme to a custom fork of the Bilberry Hugo Theme.

Why? For a couple of reasons.

First off all, every time I work on my website, I’ve felt that the design was getting a bit long in the tooth, and that it was time for either a platform change (migrating to a different static site generator), or at least a theme change. I’ve yet to find a different SSG that I’m ready to dive into yet, and so investigating alternate themes has been my primary focus.

I ran across the Bilberry theme about two weeks ago, but at the time, I wasn’t quite ready to take the plunge. There were a handful of design choices I wasn’t happy with, and so I kept looking for other options. However, none came, and so I began looking at the theme more closely, and considering a fork with the changes made that I care about.

Saturday, Nov 2nd, I finally decided to strike out and begin migrating my site.

The content was by and large trivial to migrate. Most of my work was replicating the features I liked out of Coder in Bilberry, and customizing its behavior. While I’m at it, I’m also beginning to make my website IndieWeb-compliant. I really like the POSSE (Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere) design theory, and so I’m beginning to take steps to make my website capable of that.

As of today, Sunday, Nov 3rd, I’m happy enough with the overall design and behavior locally that I’m going to merge the branch I’ve been working on into my main branch, and this change will go live.

A few notes:

• There is a high probability that a bunch of old posts will show up in the RSS feed - my apologies. This is because I removed my old “archived” post section and am only keeping a single set of blog posts now.
• If you want to see my long-form posts and my short statuses, etc, I recommend you follow my main RSS feed.