I thought I will experiment and start a changelog of technical improvements for this website, excl. the posts themselves.



The website is written in [NextJS](https://nextjs.org/) and Typescript,
and relies on tools from [the Unified ecosystem](https://unifiedjs.com/).

## 2021-04

- added the [newsletter generator](/ng/) that automates most part of preparing the [Buttondown newsletter](https://buttondown.email/emails). It's not perfect, it's ugly, but it gets 90% done. Excerpts are extracted with [graymatter](https://github.com/jonschlinkert/gray-matter) (still used for reading Markdown files, could be replaced with Unified and [react-excerpt](https://github.com/manovotny/remark-excerpt)). Date picker by [react-datepicker](https://reactdatepicker.com/).
- added stars to posts overview indicating the favorite posts of mine
- reorganized blog categories, inspired by the structure of [Julia](https://jvns.ca/blog/2019/02/17/organizing-this-blog-into-categories/) and [Will](https://lethain.com)
- added table of content with [rehype-toc](https://jstools.dev/rehype-toc/) if a post requests so in the frontmatter
- added external link symbol: basic css [here](https://davidwalsh.name/external-links-css), symbol [copied from Quora as SVG](https://www.quora.com/Is-the-symbol-for-external-link-available-in-Unicode-If-so-how-do-I-get-in-on-my-Mac?share=1), SVG then serialized to CSS using [this tool](https://yoksel.github.io/url-encoder/)

## 2021-03

- switched to [dark code theme](https://prismjs.com/) that I find personally more readable
- added [changelogs](/post-changelog.md) to posts, using data from Markdown frontmatter
- added links to headers with [rehype-autolink-headings](https://github.com/rehypejs/rehype-autolink-headings) and [rehype-slug](https://github.com/rehypejs/rehype-slug)
- added this changelog

Marcel Krčah

Changelog of this blog (meta)

2021-04

2021-03