20 hours ago · Tech · hide

The new design is dead. Long live the new design. Motivation Occasionally I find myself hunting for something elusive on the internet. I’m not sure what, exactly. A place, or maybe just a vibe. Something underground or furtive, like a digital speakeasy or secret society. Perhaps an exclusive BBS or pubnix of yore. This may be what draws me to the terminal and Vim. It’s also led me to make Gopher holes and Gemini capsules in the past, and to lurk in places like midnight.pub. Each of these things offers some of what I’m after, but no bullseye yet. So, I decided to redesign my blog to capture some of that vibe I’m looking for and to accommodate Vimmish keyboard navigation. General structure I’m styling the site mostly like Vim’s :help pages, which are just text files with some basic markup for links and such. Nice and simple and geeky. Text style All text is the same size like in a terminal. The page titles are prefixed by a row of = symbols like in Vim help. Headers in the page footers…

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