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I know I've said this numerous times in the past, but it is time that I finally revamp everything. The site is currently experiencing lingering issues from implementing HTMX as it conflicts with the CSP policy that I have in place. For these reasons, I'm using that as my drive to finally start working on the site again. I have some long term plans, but I'm not going to lay those out here in case I pivot away from them, but I want to redesign the entire thing as I've grown stale of the design and I have learned more about web development since creating this site back in 2017 that I think would be beneficial to use. No timeline for these changes, but ideally by the end of this year.

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I've been in the process of adding HTMX into the site where applicable, and I must say...it's a neat little thing. I've been enjoying adding it, but I've still got plenty of the site left to implement into. As always, the site code is open source if you'd like to see the progress, or even contribute.

I've been learning Go and HTMX as of late, so that I can create more fun things in the future. As part of learning Go for building my new web project, I've been learning HTMX to replace the standard jQuery/Javascript stuff I had been using. As part of that process, I plan to swap the jQuery/AJAX on this site with HTMX (where applicable), as I think that would be a fun project.

I recently fixed a bug on the blog where the entire excerpt was not showing on the blog index, but was showing correctly here on the website home page. It came down to some weird quirk with how Ghost handles {{excerpt}} in theme templates, but switching it to {{custom_excerpt}} resolved the problem. It was a tad annoying.