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Sorry, Under Construction 🚧

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Sorry, Under Construction 🚧

If you are having problems with pages loading properly on the blog, I suggest you do a quick click of the reload button with the shift button held down. I just renamed and removed references to “Google Maps” on the blog in favor of “Interactive Maps” as this blog no longer uses Google Map Technology to display maps, in favor of the open source, and much more powerful leafletjs, combined with publicly available tile and web map services from government and not-for-profits.

So the new version of the blog theme is up and running

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So the new version of the blog theme is up and running. I was getting tired of the old theme, and while it was a nice transition between the pre-2020 version and what we have now, it was too slow and didn’t quite go for the message I was looking for on the blog. That said, there is more to do — the mobile version has issues — and I’m sure I’ll find further bugs, but for now I’m quite happy on how things turned out.

New blog theme

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  • I’ve pushed the latest version of the blog theme online.
  • Is it perfect? No, but I think it’s an improvement.
  • There is a lot of white space due to columns not matching up. How to fix that with the full screen pictures while keeping the blog posts in order. That I don’t know.
  • I am still working on the mobile version, but it works “well-enough” for now, and despite showing many of the images full-screen is actually faster loading then the old theme.
  • I think it’s good to have a change, the old theme was getting long in the tooth, especially with so many of us now having high-resolution monitors.

It’s Alive … The New Version of Blog

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It’s alive! 😀

After a week of debugging, and finally fixing the preformance and mobile issues with my blog, 🐞 I think it’s official to describe the new version as official. Not that it makes much of a difference, but I think now that I’ve dug into what was causing the performance plugin — a “lost page finding” plugin, I think it’s working great now. I replaced the functionality of that plug-in with my own code on 404 page, and it seems much faster then it’s been in a long time!

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