Published on 2026-02-03
Tags: changelog, static-site

Like tags, which group different blog posts together, series now have dedicated pages where all the constituent blog posts are listed.

The All Series page lists all series, like the Knowledge Bases Tool series.

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Published on 2025-12-02
Tags: changelog, ocaml, static-site

I've created individual image pages. Now all images will link to their own image page, which makes it easier to see the alt text and variant images. For example, this page for the picture of my dog on Rialto Beach.

Implementing this was pretty straightforward. My static site generator makes a distinction between "normal" pages, ones where the Page structure is constructible solely from the contents of a file (HTML or Markdown body with all the necessary metadata in a YAML frontmatter), and "synthetic" pages, where the Page structure is constructed in OCaml code inside the generator. These image pages are synthetic: the generator constructs one for each image original used on the site, generated alongside other synthetic pages like the tag pages or blog post archive pages.

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Published on 2025-10-09
Tags: changelog, photography, static-site

I've created a Photos page to show off the photography-tagged posts in a gallery format.

It didn't take much coding work to build, just adding on a "thumb" mode to the image builtin. The majority of the work was achievable with pre-existing template builtins:

<main>
  <section>
  <h1>Photos</h1>
  <div class="gallery">
    {setlist(posts, contains(item.md.tags, photography))/}
    {foreach(posts, post)/}
      {if(post.md.thumbnail)/}
      <a href="{pageurl(post.md.slug)}">
        {img(post.md.thumbnail, thumb)}
      </a>
      {/if}
    {/foreach}
    {/setlist}
  </div>
  </section>
</main>

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Published on 2025-09-24
Tags: changelog, static-site

I've finally built support for images! It's taken about 2 months to finish implementation — I started during my vacation in early August and have been working on it when I find the time and motivation. I'll write up a larger post detailing the full system later, suffice it to say I'm generating multiple encodings (JPEG, WEBP, AVIF) at multiple resolutions (400px, 720px, 1440px) so I can minimize bandwidth usage and enable the user's browser to select the image which fits best (<picture>).

To kick things off, here's a picture of my dog Ki at the dog park:

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Published on 2025-09-13
Tags: changelog, static-site

A page breaking down my blog posts by year and then month, to enable easy browsing of the whole archive, is now available: Blog Archives.

Now that I've hit over 50 posts, I thought it was time to build an archive scheme that won't just be an infinitely growing page. Pages for each year a post happened are generated, filtered down to contain only the posts from that year, and further grouped by month. In the process, the blog nav has been standardized and put on the tags and search pages.

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Published on 2025-09-08
Tags: changelog, rss, static-site

You can now subscribe to posts of a specific tag. The existing "all posts" feed remains, and now there is a feed for every tag that "contains" at least 5 posts. For example:

• Articles
• Music I'm Listening To
• Software Engineering
• Static Site Posts

The tag page (e.g. static-site) links to the feed on the page, as well as sets the feed meta tag — so you can paste the tag page URL or the tag feed URL into your feed reader of choice.

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