2 hours ago · Life · 0 comments

The sun is shining, I have plenty of time as I’m still looking for a job so I’ve poured a lot of work into this website to clean up and improve things. I want to share the highlights in this article. New navigation Except for some recent design tweaks in February, this website has remained virtually unchanged since as far back as 2020, which is when I ported it to Eleventy. I couldn’t find a Wayback Machine snapshot dated earlier than that, so I’m going to assume this is also when I redesigned it. I’ve finally bitten the bullet and moved the navigation out of the content column. It took me a little while to come up with something I didn’t hate, and I’m still not enamored with it, but I feel it’s better than it used to be. It’s more anchored, it’s more usable, and breaks the centered column flow a little. Also, the skip link fits very nicely within it. On the plus side, this enabled me to play with the Popover API for the first time, for the mobile version (thanks to John Dalesandro…

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