I’ve been using Tiny Theme, by Matt Langford, on lmika.org for about 23 months. And it’s been an excellent theme. A good looking, versatile design. But I felt it was time for a refresh, so I’m moving this blog over to Matt’s latest theme, Mythos.

Before completely abandoning Tiny Theme, I’d thought to record some screenshots, as recommended by more experienced bloggers whenever they do a theme refresh. So here’s a gallery of what lmika.org looked before I made the switch — complete with it’s “summer” colour scheme that I neglect to updated when autumn came around (if I kept it for two more months, it would’ve been relevant again):

Simply applying the theme made this site look pretty good, but I also took this opportunity to try a few things out. For one thing, the index page is no longer a simple reverse-chronological list of posts. I’ve modelled it after Scripting News, where posts are grouped into days. The days themselves are reverse chronological but the posts within those days are arrange in reverse-reverse chronological (some might choose to call this simply “chronological”) with the large posts with titles now appearing below the shorter ones.

It’s a style that I’ve found myself wanting to try after adopting it for my journal in Obsidian. I’ve settled on an approach where each day gets a single daily note and nothing more. For too long I’ve been holding on to the need to know the exact second any given thought was recorded, which was keeping me from having a system that works. Days would have three or four notes that would make the sidebar look untidy. After letting go of this need, I found that I didn’t really care about this detail. The exact second of the day when a thought occurred doesn’t seem that important in a body of work that’d meant to span multiple years. So what better time to try it here, with this redesign.

I’ve made a few other changes, such as turning off visitor analytics. I don’t need those metrics, and they were starting to becoming unreliable anyway, as this site is starting to appear on the lists of AI indexers. I am also considering some more journal-ey posts: more things about works in progress or thoughts that are half-developed. I’ve gotten into the habit of recording them in Obsidian, but some of them I do want to publish, and I think the redesigned home page will make it easier for me to do that.

So, that’s the reason for the redesign. Thanks again to Matt Langford for making an awesome theme.