A Few More Minor Blog Updates

Just a quick note to say I have made a few minor updates to the new minimalist theme here. When I introduced the theme last week, I knew it wasn’t 100% complete, and I also knew I would be making tweaks along the way as I road-tested it, so to speak. The comment section was one area I neglected. That has now been fixed. You may notice a few minor changes in the comments:

Each comment is numbered. This harks back to the old days of blogs when people could refer to an earlier comment by its number (e.g. “Jamie @ 17: I completely disagree!”)Styling, which I had neglected, now works in comments. Bulleted lists, quotes, links, etc. Also, you can use Markdown in comments and it should for the most part render correctly.The comment header for each comment has been updated to display {commenter name} on {date} hopefully making it easier to identify who wrote the comment.Comments are separated by a thin gray line.

One additional update I am working on is a complete refresh of the taxonomy (categories, tags, and series). All of these elements have grown organically with the blog over the last 20 years. I am now working on consolidating and standardizing them so that they are much more useful than they have been. I have a staging site for this blog to test these changes before I push them to production. More on the taxonomy refresh when it is complete.

Going forward, I am putting updates I make to the blog and theme in this Blog Updates page. You can check there to see recent changes. Major changes I’ll still announce here.

Also, thanks to everyone who has given me feedback. I very much appreciate it. Keep it coming!