A Fresh Start

I wrote quite a lot last year, and now it’s in the archive. This is a fresh start!

Now we’re working with Svelte, and writing using mdsvex. It’s been relatively smooth sailing so far compared with my early work on the Nuxt version of my site, where I spent days battling content queries and code highlighting.

There’s lots to do on the blog

• Page tagging
• Index pages for everything, including tags
• Next / Previous post buttons for easy traversal
• Wrangling cover images into check
• Improved content layout options (breakout / lightboxes? / copy code btns / etc)
• Anchor links surrounding content headings
• Improve external link handling (_blank, noopener, etc)
• Default sorting of thoughts by latest first…?

There’s lots to do elsewhere

• Content for all the top level pages… I’ve gone down a bit of a rabbit-hole with the Thoughts section
• Refactoring the navigation system… I’ll need to think about this a lot, as I want to make it a lot more flexible, but for now it’s workable.
• Keyboard shortcuts, though that’s pretty low on the priority list.

There’s issues

… And that’s a good thing! I should be running this show via github issues to keep me on track somewhat. This will be a good week for making progress over here I think.