{"slug": "small-site-changes-and-new-design", "title": "Small site changes and new design", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "I have been wanting to refresh my site for a while now.\nI have even posted a few times on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/) and [X](http://x.com/) offering to pay if somoene was interested in taking a stab at it.\n\nI 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.\n\nIf you think the site looks much worse, [please let me know](mailto:farid.m.zakaria@gmail.com).\n\nSome small improvements and quality-of-life enhacements:\n\n- A small\n`/nix/store`\n\nentry in the footer to showcase the site is built with Nix. - A\n[Jekyll plugin](https://github.com/fzakaria/fzakaria.com/blob/9d5dc190358f42466d99ce990cda77448f8713d8/_plugins/images.rb)that automatically creates source-sets for the images I use in my blog posts. - A\n[Jekyll plugin](https://github.com/fzakaria/fzakaria.com/blob/9d5dc190358f42466d99ce990cda77448f8713d8/_plugins/asset_version.rb)to create a short content hash for the stylesheets to avoid the browsers caching stale CSS. - A\n[Jekyll plugin](https://github.com/fzakaria/fzakaria.com/blob/779849a9a37e2a8c381acc751eacac5dd4b1aa3f/_plugins/signal.rb)that generates a little curved line for the masthead that is the`sha256`\n\nof the page. - Redesigned the layout to allow side-bar content.\n\nLook at me! I’m sidebar content I will undoubtedly abuse.\n\nI continued to try and give it my personal *flair* to avoid it looking like *AI-slop* but 🤷", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/small-site-changes-and-new-design", "canonical_source": "https://fzakaria.com/2026/07/26/small-site-changes-and-new-design", "published_at": "2026-07-26 20:59:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-09 22:17:41.872012+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai"], "entities": ["Farid Zakaria", "fzakaria.com", "Jekyll", "Nix", "LinkedIn", "X"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/small-site-changes-and-new-design", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/small-site-changes-and-new-design.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/small-site-changes-and-new-design.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/small-site-changes-and-new-design.jsonld"}}