Originally published 8/14/22, with many updates since then.

What I’ve already done:

I changed the dark theme colors to a warmer tint.

If you look at the source code to this website on github, you’ll notice I made a couple commits with pretty similar edit messages - “changing dark mode colors” , “color changes again”. That’s because I forgot which file determines the final outcome of the website appearance-wise. I was testing changes to CSS files to find out which one will make the permanent color-theme change. There definitely were smarter alternatives I considered, but I was tired.

For future note: use _sass/yat/_dark.scss and _sass/yat/_layout.scss to implement theme changes. _sass/yat/_base.scss can be used to change the colors of things like links and also add more elaborate styling.

I attempted to change the url of the homepage of the website, to be shorter.

Note, it hasn’t worked yet, and I’ll continue trying to fix it. I’ll add the fix to that here later, but so far I’ve tried changing it in the github pages settings and changing it in _config.yml. Neither worked, so I’ll probably just google it or look into republishing the website.

EDIT: I finally understand why I cannot remove the /WatermelonBlog/ in the url. This is due to the fact that I have not configured a custom domain for my website (and I probabkly won’t in the future.) The reason it is https://m-watermelon.github.io/WatermelonBlog/`WatermelonBlog/` and not https://m-watermelon.github.io/WatermelonBlog/`home` is because ‘WatermelonBlog’ is the name of the github repository from which I created a github pages environment.

This is a goofy mistake, but better to find out late than never. I found this out only after launching a second github pages website, that had the url https://m-watermelon.github.io/`Uranium-cat/`. I had considered the (rather obvious) possibility that the urls are made from my github account username, .io, and the repository name, but I never decided to look into it.

The more you know!!

Update: That’s pretty much all. I’ll keep working on this from time to time, but my main focus is school (which has started again) and BASH scripting.