A New Look

I’ve given this blog a new look by switching the theme from Noteworthy to Long Form, the latter a theme of my own design.

Why the change?

I adopted the Noteworthy theme at the onset of this blog and maintained a branch with some fixes (primarily KaTeX support). Since it is a cliche that engineering blogs will write more about the blog’s infrastructure than actual content, I wanted to first establish a track record of content before spending too much effort on design. Now, with a few years of posts, there were a few factors that pushed me to create something new:

On dropping tags

The previous site had a section for tags, which never worked because I hadn’t tagged any pages. I explored adopting an existing system like ACM’s CCS, but that system is not supportable within Hugo’s functionality. Further, my content often does not align with CCS. There is enough content that adopting some tag or taxonomy makes sense, but I’ll wait until I have a system before advertising its presence again.