Mandaris

We've started a new project which requires heavy, creative theming, so I made a prototype to test some ideas out.

I really like this article as it breaks down the reasoning of why they are doing what they are doing. It has some examples that you can follow along with and leaves me thinking about how I can take this knowledge into my own development.

Discovered via Andy Bell

James has been doing a lot of cool things on his blog. I feel that you should really check him out and everyone else in the IndieWeb WebRing.

I love diagrams and my heart almost jumped out of my chest as he wrote about combining two of my loves: Coffee and Diagrams.

I thought what better way to learn more about using Mermaid than to make a chart that shows how I decide what coffee to drink!

I haven’t really used Mermaid since I included the renderhooks it for the theme that I use for my blog. So, I was excited to have an opportunity to use it.

flowchart TD
    accTitle: How do I brew my coffee
    accDescr: This is a process on how I determine what kind of coffe to drink
    A{Am I brewing coffee at home, or am I on the go?}
    A --> B[Home]
    A --> C[On the Go]
    B --> D[Black]
    C --> E{Am I going to Starbucks}
    E -->|No| D[Black]
    E -->|Yes| G[Water]

How do you make your coffee?

This release is mostly centered around cleaning up different edge cases in the theme. This the first time in several point releases where I’ve made a change to the HTML structure. The release before (V1.3.07) was an addition to the theme that we won’t be seeing on Micro.blog until we update Hugo. I feel a bit of accomplishment in the fact that I didn’t see a need to.

Here are all the changes from the README.md that I haven’t blogged about.

v1.3.08

• Adjust fonts
• Make the a.no-decoration more accessible by changing contrast
• Add FloatLeft css class
• Add ::selection background color to match up with theme
• Add scrolling for debug output
• Change the title and aria-label for microposts to include the date and time. In the local copy of Hugo, an empty string title is automatically added.
• Add styling to the top of the list.html to make it stand out.
• Change the date format for the time used for published times.
• Rearrange reply order options to be Micro.blog, Mastodon, and then email
• Add articleSection to list of classes for category tags on a post
• Update README.md on previous releases

v1.3.07

• Add partials for upcoming mathematics support in Hugo. This can be seen when you toggle the math parameter. This has been defaulted to false until v0.122 is available. Demos can be seen on the MathJax demo page.
• Use Modern Font Stacks. Matt Langford discussed this on the Tiny Theme page on fonts. I really liked his implementation and you should check it out!

v1.3.06

• Change the li marker color to --text-alt in order to match header color
• Change padding of body to utilize more space on smaller screens
• add text-shadow to a.no-decoration
• Change logic for the debug flags
• Create stub for theme example folder
• Temporarily add the rsvp shortcode to theme to remove extra whitespace when post is cross posted to mastodon

This is the first interview in Technical Writing Chats, a series where I speak with technical writers about their day-to-day role and how they got started in their career. Today's interview is with Ally Sassman, a Senior Technical Writer at New Relic. I sincerely hope you enjoy!