A couple of days ago, I wrote about how I’ve been working on improving this blog. Well, that task continues. Today, instead of making a video for my YouTube channel like I was supposed to, I worked on adding a drop down menu to the menu up top. Yesterday, I got that menu so that it collapses when the screen gets smaller so that it works well on mobile and tablets. And now I’ve added a light/dark theme switcher up in the upper right hand corner (only appears on desktop).

This has been fun. I’ve pretty much remade the re-terminal theme theme that this all started off as. So much so that it doesn’t look very much like re-terminal at all.

re-terminal hugo theme

It has been a journey, and I’m sure that it isn’t over yet. I want to add more slash pages, redo the now and music pages, maybe redo the book page, and get lastfm to display album art. I also want to go through the css of the theme and see if I can’t make it more efficient and more modular. Right now most of the stuff for the changes I’ve made is in the static/style.css file. Now that this stuff works, I may move it into the permanent style.css modular file structure that came with the theme.

I also want to create a few short codes so that I can save myself some time. YouTube embeds, maybe a review embed that will grab the cover and info for books I review, things like that. And then I want to create some post types, so that they’re styled a bit differently than the rest. For example, I’d love to share links to other blogs, I’ve done that a few times, and have those posts link right to the blog and appear differently here on this site.

So, as you see I have plans. I doubt I’ll be able to stop myself from sharing my progress with y’all as I go along. I’m having way too much fun not to share.