elpachongco / hugo-letter

My blog's custom hugo template

Letter - a hugo theme by earlps.net

Classy and easy on the eyes.

This is the theme of my website, earlps.net. It follows the blog redesign checklist

What I like about this theme

• The front page features articles, media and projects unlike the previous theme which only listed the latest posts. It was too simple for my use case.
• Visitors may notice the 'shorts' page. These are low quality, short posts which I use as an alternative to social media. It scratches a particular itch I have -- shitposting. I learned on my Previous experience that I like the experience this gives me. It keeps the blog more active and I have a place to dump thoughts so I can go back to them.
• Posts are more digestible with the laid-back spacing of elements.

Inspiration

The design of this blog came from multiple websites I've visited in the past.

• The supabase website
  • The right sidebar on an article shows a summary, like a table of contents, of the article.
• Gwern's website
  • I like the idea of laying out categories in the homepage. It encourages the reader to look around.
• Lean Rada's personal website
  • I like the fun feel and clean look of the website.

Todo

• Client-side deprioritization of posts that have already been read by the user
• last site update time on footer
• page stats?
• Theme size/lines of code
• Loading animations / page transitions / (trivia loading screen, pokemon transitions)
• Default thumbnail if not found
• Popups like wikipedia (using iframe)
• Static site trello board?
• Search -- done