I recently posted this: New plans for the blog

To summarize, I’ll be redesigning this blog.

In this article, I’ll list the things that I want my blog to have.

Must haves #

• User-clickable anchors for each post’s headers (h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6)
  • If possible, must highlight if scrolled or by clicking table of contents.
• Dark mode
• Table of contents for each post
  • Must be visible while scrolling. If possible, should also highlight current section.
• /shorts/ - of course
• Last updated information
• Retain StaticCMS. It’s very convinient.
• A draft indicator, Gwern-style. Since I’ll be using the blog as my personal notes website, every change I make to it WILL be pushed, even drafts.
• Code snippets must have a built-in header for filename.
• Static site search (like papermod)
• Captions for each image
• Post thumbnails
  • Get a post’s first image file and use as thumbnail
  • If not present, use a default thumbnail
  • Allow setting custom thumbnail in frontmatter/settings

Optional #

• A way to manage and view history of updates of an article (since it’s managed in git). E.g. arrow buttons to navigate history of the article.
• Comment section. (Discuss? Bhread?)