{"id":3317,"date":"2019-11-29T18:02:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T16:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tomayac.com\/2019\/09\/29\/the-redesigned-blogccasion-is-live\/"},"modified":"2019-11-29T18:02:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T16:02:43","slug":"the-redesigned-blogccasion-is-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomayac.com\/wordpress\/2019\/11\/29\/the-redesigned-blogccasion-is-live\/","title":{"rendered":"The redesigned Blogccasion is live"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t

I started to blog way back in 2005<\/a>,\nand while I was skeptical whether it would work out and was worth my time,\nI just tried it and danced \ud83d\udc83 and wrote like no one was watching\n(which definitely was the case for a while).\nMany of these early posts are slightly embarrassing from today's point of view,\nbut nevertheless I decided to keep them around, since they are a part of me.\nRemember, this was before social networks became a thing.\nActually, social networks almost killed my blogging, in both\n2016<\/a>\nand 2017<\/a>\nrespectively I only wrote one post, but plenty of tweets<\/a>\nand Facebook posts.\nHere's a screenshot of the\nold blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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One of the reasons why I blogged less was also my hand-rolled stack that the blog was built upon:\nA classic LAMP stack, consisting of Linux, Apache, MySQL, and handwritten PHP\u00a05.\nSince I had (and still have) no clue of MySQL character encoding configuration,\nI couldn't store emoji \ud83e\udd14 in my database, but hey \u00af\\_(\u30c4)_\/\u00af<\/code>.\nThe switch to HTTPS then killed my login system (that before on HTTP anyone could have sniffed,\ndid I mention I was clueless?).\nIn the end I had to log into phpMyAdmin to enter a new blog post into the database by hand.\nIt was clearly time for a change.<\/p>\n

Luckily this was the time when static site builders became more and more popular.\nI had heard good things of Zach Leatherman<\/a>'s\nEleventy<\/a>, so I went for it.\nIt was super helpful to have the\neleventy-base-blog<\/a>\nrepository that shows how to get started with Eleventy.\nI took extra care to make sure all my old URLs still worked,\nand learned more than I wanted about\n.htaccess<\/code><\/a> files\nand .htaccess<\/code> rewrite maps<\/a>,\nsince we all know that cool URIs don't change<\/a>.\nThere I was with a modern stack, and a 2005 design.<\/p>\n

Now, I've finally also updated the design, and, while I'm not a designer, I still quite like it.\nObviously it supports\nprefers-color-scheme<\/code>, aka. Dark Mode<\/a>\nand also uses the <dark-mode-toggle><\/code><\/a>\ncustom element, but I've also decided to go for a responsive "holy grail" layout\nthat is based on CSS Grid<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here're the resources that helped me build the new Blogccasion:<\/p>\n