joodaloop.com v4.6

Around a year ago, I wrote about how the current design of my site had proved undislodgable. You can see today that it has survived yet another year. Congratulations, site!

This stability has allowed me to focus on small refinements and new features. And enough of these changes have happened in the last few months to merit a version bump. Introducing, joodaloop.com v4.6, now with…

• Offline browsing through a Service Worker that caches all page content for instant page loads after the first visit.
• The ~~~ page debuted with a new tweet-like format — the need for which was covered in “An ontology of microblogging”.
• Site-wide title search can be brought up by hitting ⌘ + K on any page. It’s a particularly nice experience due to the fact that pages load instantly.
• Frames, Focuses & Frontiers is a new section on the Workbench page that tracks my personal history of, well…those 3 things.
• A custom collapsible was designed using the <details> element in order to compress that list to a practical length. And found further use on…
• The new Writing page layout, which now consists of essays (segmented by platform) and Notes, Lists & Guides (split into more focused categories).
• Backlinks now show up in the INFO section of post pages.
• Invitation to email me is appended to the end of all posts, including RSS feed entries.
• An LLM-coded linter was built to support content and build output correctness across the site. Dozens of typos were caught, and missing page metadata added. You are invited to try it yourself.
• Analytics were brought back using Counterscale, which I recommend.
• Images have improved styling, including a max-height to prevent overly long blocks, and a neat fallback for when they fail to load.
• Dark mode readability improved as a result of picking a lighter shade of blue for the site’s theme color (#040c5b -> #141c6b), in response to critique by a particularly impassioned user.
• A larger font size was chosen (+0.5px) to also help readability.
• The home page “STUFF” section now gives each of my major projects it’s own callout box instead of using plain lists.

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