New Theme

After about 10 years of the previous retro-inspired red/black color scheme, I’ve decided to ditch it in favour of something less obtrusive and more polished. The previous theme was in fact the result of a handful of different styles mixed together, which gave the impression of something uncoordinated and deeply dissonant. Over the years, I’ve tried to introduce multiple layout updates to fix the mess this website had become; however, at a certain point, it was just too much: a complete site redesign was inevitable.

The New Design

This new theme strictly follows a finite set of design rules I’ve compiled myself. It doesn’t introduce any external fancy font, it doesn’t try to mix together awkward combination of colors and doesn’t try to do too much, it just provides the content in a minimal and distraction-less layout.

The theme relies around the following colors:

:root {
    --background: #0f0e0e;
    --text: #ece3da;
    --accent: #51c2b7;
    --unfocused: #727272;
}

That is:

• A darkish background color(#0f0e0e);
• A yellowish foreground color(#ece3da);
• A cyan accent color(#51c2b7);
• An unfocused color for borders(I#727272).

The theme is written in pure CSS without using any additional dependencies besides highlight.js for syntax highlighting and katex for $\LaTeX$ rendering.

General Cleanup

Besides the site redesign, I’ve decided to remove some old articles I’ve wrote years ago when I was a teen and that I no longer like to show on my website. These articles were badly written and provided little to no information; therefore, nothing of value was lost. I’ve also rebuilt the RSS feed from scratch by limiting it to the latest three posts, which seems to me a proper amount of articles to show up on a feed reader.

Right now the layout should have reached a fairly stable state. Still, I will actively monitor it on the next few days to try to spot any minor bugs I might be have left behind. If you want to suggest a fix, you know how to reach me.