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+--post-date: 2024-03-11
+--type: blog
+--tags: tech
+# Redesign!
+
+I have redesigned my website! I'm sure you've notice already. But I decided to redo my theme, site structure, and even how I publish and build my site.
+
+The technical side of things is probably the more interesting part of this post and I want to write that post but I don't really have the time yet.
+
+## Theme
+
+I love my new theme. I have a dark and lightmode theme (using a @media query) which both were in part inspired by my emacs theme “moe-theme.el”! They're both soft on the eyes and using some colors I love. I liked my old structure but I found it to be a bit… pre-transition. I am much cuter now and I wanted my site to reflect that!
+
+=> https://github.com/kuanyui/moe-theme.el kuanyui/moe-theme.el
+
+## Move slow and break things
+
+This was a long time coming. I'd been working on this redesign for weeks; most of it coming in my build process. But because I am writing HTML (and gmi) posts to be generated into a complete page at build time rather than at post time, I made the effort to change my URLs around.
+
+Before I was posting to /blog/{iso-date}/index.html which I regretted immediately. Now that post would be /blog/{year}/{month}/{day}/{post-title}.html which is way more shareable! I could probably do some mangling in my nginx to restructure any request to /blog/{iso-date} to at least pull up the index for that date (that's right! I finally got index pages!).
+
+Because the new URLs my RSS feed has basically regenerated itself anew and you'd likely see double posts as it republished all my old posts as well as this one.
+
+## Trying out gemtext first, as an option
+
+This post was written in gemtext and built to HTML to be published. That required a small modification to my build script. I realized there are some posts that I feel do require to be "html first".
+
+> I found that going from HTML → gemtext is easier (mentally) than going from gemtext → HTML.
+=> https://senders.io/blog/2024/03/10/choosing-to-write-in-html.html Choosing to write in HTML
+
+This turned out to be a lie (sometimes). I think what I meant was "technically" going from HTML → gemtext is easier to rationalize technically. When going from gemtext → HTML it's simple and straightforward but then "how do I do things not supported by gemtext?!" Which is where my brain got locked. I want to share some music; I have a very particular style for that, I'd have to custom write a whole generator for detecting music links and restructuring it etc etc. Where as going from HTML → gemtext I can just yank the link out and call it a day.
+
+So a hybrid approach is where I'm going to leave it. A regular text first post like this is gemini first. An HTML post can be there when I need to make sure the webview renders a certain way! And I think that flexibility is best!
+
+## Conclusion
+
+So yeah! Sorry for the 1 person who subscribes to my RSS feed for breaking it. And I hope you like the new theme! If you default to darkmode themes toggle the light mode in your devtools! It's really cute too!
+
+— Steph