Here it is, the new year! I can't say I'm especially overjoyed about it, but I'm also fine with leaving 2024 behind, so... you know.

At any rate, as you (maybe) can see, this website got a bit of an overhaul!
I spent a few days during my winter break re-implementing it using Eleventy.

Bearblog served me well for the past few months, but I knew that, at some point, I'd want to control everything... so here we are.

While the goal of this migration was to make a 1:1 copy of the way the site looked on Bear, I couldn't help myself and made a few tweaks here and there.

damien.zone January 2025 Release Notes

new favicon / avatar

Sage drew a lovely pixel-art version of my avatar! We spent a lot of time making sure it looks sharp as hell everywhere. The favicon shows up ~fine~ in RSS readers as well. I'll try to make a post documenting how all of this was done because some of the tricks I used are a little bit silly.

color palette changes

I also changed several aspects of the main design regarding contrast and colors. There are too many to list, so enjoy a comparison below:

Hopefully, these changes make the site a bit nicer to look at and read. I will continue iterating on it over time because these things are never finished.

layout / content changes

The layout is still very much based on the "Terminal" theme that Bearblog provides, but I tweaked the layout of a few pages:

• The homepage now has a shorter description, the list of recent posts, and that's it.
• I might experiment with the homepage a bit more; at some point, I'd like to retire erambert.me in favor of this current site.
• The links page has been reorganized and redesigned.
• The footer is now minimal, with only links to the links and credits pages. The webring widget now lives on the links page.

other changes

The feed is now an Atom feed instead of being either Atom or RSS. The actual feed is available at /feed.xml, but I have redirects set up to ensure that RSS clients querying /feed still receive something. As far as I can tell, RSS readers seem to be fine with a given feed changing format like that... so hopefully nothing breaks? We'll see!

The code is/will be available on GitHub.

happy new year, everyone!

And that's it. I hope and wish for 2025 to serve you and all of us well.

See ya,
- damien