New Reading and Display Features

Table of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Dark Mode 3. Sidebar Table of Contents 4. HDR Support 5. Knuth-Plass Style Justified Text Layout 6. Conclusion 7. References Introduction I recently implemented several fun new features on my site: dark mode support, a sidebar table of contents when the browser window is sufficiently wide, HDR support, and justified text layout using a custom high-performance implementation of a simplified version of the Knuth-Plass algorithm. Over the past several years I’ve put occasional effort into dragging my site into the modern day with things like responsive layouts for different screen/windows sizes and a unified design across my blog and portfolio to both improve visual consistency and make maintenance and development easier. These latest changes build on top of that previous work to finally do some things that I think are fun and interesting and new, while still keeping the design of the site grounded and reasonably restrained. I’m not much of a designer…