Site Refresh Before 2026 Ends

Site Refresh Before 2026 Ends⁠§Last week, I finally started tackling an issue with how CSS is set up on my Hugo site. It’s been a long-standing issue that has bugged me ever since I learnt about how Hugo theme Git submodules worked, excessive theme CSS overrides (custom rules trying to override the theme’s main.css), and the mistakes I made while learning the basics of CSS (not being aware of the a11y practices). I couldn’t resist doing HTML Hugo template refactoring along the way too, so I put on my tinkering hat and went to work. 👩🏻‍💻 But around the midway point of this multi-day project, I realized I will be travelling soon (with no computer), so I began speed running through the refactor just to “get the job done”. I definitely need to tidy it up in the future—at least I made a start at this back-burner task before the end of 2026! A lot of CSS has been removed, and I tried to reduce repeated code by making new classes that can be reused. I also simplified the styles for details…

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