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.

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