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Small site changes and new design

Farid Zakaria redesigned his personal blog fzakaria.com using AI, adding a sidebar layout, a Nix store entry in the footer, and three new Jekyll plugins for image source-sets, CSS content hashing, and a sha256-based masthead curve. He invites feedback via email and acknowledges the design may not appeal to all readers.

read1 min views2 publishedJul 26, 2026

I have been wanting to refresh my site for a while now.

I have even posted a few times on LinkedIn and X offering to pay if somoene was interested in taking a stab at it. I am sure this will put people off from reading my blog just stating this, but I decided to take a stab at some design changes with AI and some minor site improvements that I have always wanted to do.

If you think the site looks much worse, [please let me know](mailto:farid.m.zakaria@gmail.com).

Some small improvements and quality-of-life enhacements:
  • A small /nix/store

entry in the footer to showcase the site is built with Nix. - A Jekyll pluginthat automatically creates source-sets for the images I use in my blog posts. - A Jekyll pluginto create a short content hash for the stylesheets to avoid the browsers caching stale CSS. - A Jekyll pluginthat generates a little curved line for the masthead that is thesha256

of the page. - Redesigned the layout to allow side-bar content.

Look at me! I’m sidebar content I will undoubtedly abuse.

I continued to try and give it my personal flair to avoid it looking like AI-slop but 🤷

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