A new theme

My static blog to-do list kept growing, so I decided to do something about it.

I’ve switched from Minimal Mistakes to Chirpy as a theme, because it offers built-in dark/light theme support and has share-to-Mastodon functionality. At the same time I’ve done some spring cleaning in my posts - moved some really old stuff off to the side.

In the end it was more work than I had anticipated:

• Re-categorising everything since I had conflated tags and categories with Minimal Mistakes - it is a lot more forgiving and you can add as many categories as you want, but Chirpy doesn’t work that way
• Figuring out how to add a custom font to have my CodeBerg icon
• Reworking the feed.xml file so the output is more like what Minimal Mistakes generates - avoiding RSS readers to mark the old posts as new
• Cleaning out the front matter which contained left-overs from my wordpress to jekyll migration
• Adjusting the markdown heading level so it shows up properly in the table of content
• Linted everything using rumdl
• Implemented some quality of viewing things of Chirpy
• Replaced a bunch of dead links with links to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine
• Adjusted a bunch of images to be usable in a dark-theme environment
• Probably some other stuff that I forgot about

I’m happy with the end result. If you’re reading this via RSS, you shouldn’t notice much ;)