The magic of open source - modifying my blog
Blog software I'm using
I use BashBlog for more than 3 years
now, and am really happy with it.
It's written in Bash (in case you didn't guess with its name!), which means it's
super easy to modify.
As explained in that previous
article, I already modified the CSS
files to have something a bit nicer.
And I also added a search
feature to my blog,
thanks to the excellent Pagefind.
Next change
BashBlog has 3 different views:
- the index page, which shows the recent posts,
- all posts,
- posts based on tags.
I wanted to change the index page, as I found it not super readable (since for each article, there were also the first lines of the article itself), see pica:
I also wanted to add the tags for each article.
Result
I added those tags, as well as an horizontal separator, to make it clear that the next line is a new post:
I also added a new line at the bottom, explaining I don't have a commenting
system, but folks can email me.
This is found on each article page, and I borrowed that idea from Michał
Sapka.
I highly recommend reading his blog, for instance this article where he explains the reasoning behind not having a commenting system.
Tags: Opensource