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This blog uses a heavily modified fork of the Laminum Ghost theme. Other than the basic layout, it's nearly unrecognizable as Laminum at this point. Here's a list of the most significant changes, for the record.Sass/build pipeline removal. I've never liked the idea of a "build pipeline" for CSS, so all the Sass-specific features were converted to plain CSS. mixins were removed. Then the Sass-based vendor files were converted to plain CSS. Ultimately, I replaced Sass entirely with a simple cat-based concatenation pipeline.Font Awesome removal. Replaced all Font Awesome icon references with inline SVGs. Another dependency, gone.Dark mode. Added CSS color tokens (--bg-color, --body-text-color, etc.), a no-flash preference restore script in, and a toggle button in the footer.Removed all scroll animations. The site header now scrolls with the page and doesn't otherwise move on its own. Unnecessary animations bug me, and this one was especially janky on mobile.Comment display. Comments are…

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