>a new blog

today I inaugurate my new blog website!

# a fresh start

I have ported all of my existing blog posts from my GitHub pages blog.

with this revamp and fresh start, I want to try to implement a few changes with my blog posts; I want to:

• broaden my range of topics! (although expect me to post about field projections a lot in the beginning, more on that later)
• increase the frequency of my postings, which have been rather chaotic.
• create shorter posts that don’t do a deep dive, but just give a direction. this ought to also help with making more frequent posts!

# blog features

I have hand-crafted the style and structure of the website myself, using the awesome static site generator Zola. I have implemented several ideas to enhance my posts:

• each post has an abstract that’s shown in italics on the overview page.
• every headings has an anchor next to it, so you can link to a specific part of a post. the top-level heading has a link to the overview page.
• posts also have several pieces of metadata:
  • a publish date (and an update date) that’s used to sort the posts on the overview page;
  • an estimated reading time for a quick and skimming reader as well as a slow methodical reader; and
  • a list of topics the post is about (this post doesn’t have any topics). each topic has its own overview page, for example the #rust topic.
• aside from footnotes, I have custom inline popup notes these notes usually give more context that isn’t immediately interesting and thus shouldn’t distract from the main content. but the notes are more important than ordinary footnotes, which are rather distracting, since they scroll you to the bottom of the post! !
  • you can hover over the highlighted text to open the popup, or
  • if you have javascript enabled, you can click on a note to open it (and keep it open until you click elsewhere, or open another note such as this one! ).
• the blog has both a light and a dark theme that adapts to your browser settings.

# topics

most of my old posts are about in-place initialization. my most recent post from the very end of last year, was about my rust project goal: field projections. I hope to publish many more posts about that topic, as we’re getting quite close to a complete design. I also have partial drafts of posts about different topics, but none of them are ready yet.

I wish you lots of fun reading my posts!