New blog layout is out

Version 1 of the new blog design is out. From now on, the front page will have all the posts from the most recent day I made any posts. They will be in chronological order for that day, mixing short and long posts. The front page is essentially focused on today.

I will also show any long posts (i.e. they have a title, so it’s not really length) that were made in the current month at the bottom of the page. Below that, a list of my slash pages, ¹ which will appear on every page.

My archives will continue to show only posts with titles. Therefore, all short/micro/titleless posts essentially “fall away” from the navigation. I am not actually deleting them, but I’m not making it easy to find them either.

This is the best reflection of how I treat blogging– I am writing thoughts throughout the day, and the best way to understand them is often within the context that they are written. Anything without a title is quasi-ephemeral; they’re not long considered koans imparting wisdom meant to stand the test of time. They’re meant to be said and read within the flow of conversation and slowly forgotten like most things that are said in conversation. If I sat down to write something longer that has a title, I probably put at least a little more thought into it and have a bit more of a desire to be able to reference and find it again easily. Those posts are at least somewhat meant to stand the test of time.

I’m sure I’ve missed a few spots in my theme and haven’t thought of some edge cases– let me know if you ever see something funky! But for now, this feels like a natural evolution of what I had before: reverse chronological by day, chronological within day, with an archive focused on long posts. Now there’s just no easy way to page through to the past.