---
title: "Journal Update 023"
date: 2023-02-25T00:00:00
tags: ['journal updates']
draft: false
---
## What's New
A lot of progress has been made on my journal theme. Let's start with the most exciting stuff, the new features:

* [Added inline link support](https://git.nicholasjohnson.ch/hugo-theme-journal/commit/?id=f9d5f9d7cb1fa2bf22e33f570ea4a70be0924d7b7cf01e2b5c8e84f4500195ed) for HTML without breaking Gemini. Inline links are important for getting the most out of both Gemini and the Web.
* [Implemented taxonomies](https://git.nicholasjohnson.ch/hugo-theme-journal/commit/?id=f02f6b0db09299666d78ae21243b7e919a275edb95458f33404c9eaff3aa92be) and [implemented taxonomy Atom feeds](https://git.nicholasjohnson.ch/hugo-theme-journal/commit/?id=dd14f02c0ecab82b6643edd1751d2913533e6a82e89a33286774c0f56950e169).
* [Implemented terms](https://git.nicholasjohnson.ch/hugo-theme-journal/commit/?id=4200dccb4372c7095e151803364c3f34eaa466327a2fc015a7a89065e4742b22) and [implemented term Atom feeds](https://git.nicholasjohnson.ch/hugo-theme-journal/commit/?id=dc89efa0d1ba80e8a7c61ddd2d0d4243cc82e52fb2c9104311b4ba5e2af81ff6). This allows for tagging entries. Given the volume of content on my journal and its diversity of subject, tags were becoming necessary for organizational purposes.
* [Added quote styling.](https://git.nicholasjohnson.ch/hugo-theme-journal/commit/?id=5039efdbd402fd8ff89809fb9bd290bab620aa3571845ab90d7513ad3aecdc4b)
* [Started versioning the Hugo theme](https://git.nicholasjohnson.ch/hugo-theme-journal/refs/) using [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).

I also made a few major improvements and fixed lots of bugs. Here are the highlights:

* [Stopped formatting preformatted text for Gemini.](https://git.nicholasjohnson.ch/hugo-theme-journal/commit/?id=3fb3e566afd980915e0b95022aa18c87eedb0438a36c8f8e6b9e03d0386dd360) It sounds trivial, but Hugo templates only support regex for text-manipulation. So the number of efficient solutions was probably limited to just the one chunk-parsing algorithm I designed and implemented.
* [Overhauled the CSS](https://git.nicholasjohnson.ch/hugo-theme-journal/commit/?id=89889841de646ef690e8cc2c530fa808868cafb6cbbe52ccc1cd618d7abbc972), making it BEM-compliant.
* [Fixed bold/italics removal logic for Gemini.](https://git.nicholasjohnson.ch/hugo-theme-journal/commit/?id=e2b45e248570e47dbdb85a2538dc416ce75f34f0d2e00de6f782f2a4790cf05b)

The journal itself has seen some important changes:

* [Added back I2P support.](https://git.nicholasjohnson.ch/journal/commit/?id=76fe211f7216aadb9c9b86e1986164ac37755a9b7ade676f2aa56909cda9ed53) Since [the Tor network has been under a constant DDoS attack for the past few months](/2023/02/21/i2p-and-tor-need-your-support/), it makes sense to mirror everything on I2P in case v3 onions become unreachable.
* [Expanded files subdomain access to Gemini.](https://git.nicholasjohnson.ch/journal/commit/?id=902c9f9dbb6cac328aa94ee2fcbed334b3adcb80891634df5f64a95cd571fe99)
* Painstakingly converted all entry links to inline links. It was tedious, but it needed to be done. It makes Web links look much better.

I think my writing itself has also improved. I think it's become more focused. I often want to put lots of extra details in my journal entries, but I've learned that I need to exclude details to make entries more enjoyable to read. I've learned to take the reader into consideration more while writing.

## Future Plans
All the features I wanted to implement in my journal theme have been implemented, except for internationalization. After I implement that, I'll just need to polish up and document the code and it'll be ready for the first official release.

So far I've added a few tags to group entries by topic. I plan to be conservative about adding new tags. Most entries are still untagged and I still need to decide which new tags to add. If anyone has any advice or experience with that, please [share it with me](/about/).