Folium

Folium is a theme for Anchor (Github), a lightweight blog system that I use on my blog.

This is what it looks like:

Fonts

• [X] Vollkolm (too thick)

Additions

There are a number of additions I’ve made to the base code. This is probably not exhaustive, but it’s a lot of them.

• https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/anchor-modifications
• https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/adding-captcha-to-anchor
• https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/adding-lightbox-support-to-anchor
• https://blog.alexbeals.com/posts/minor-anchor-tweak-scrolling

There are also some that aren’t documented.

Automatically making links open in a new tab
/anchor/libraries/markdown.php

function _doAnchors_inline_callback($matches) {
   ...
-   $result = "<a href=\"$url\"";
+   $result = "<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"$url\"";
   ...

Copied over time constants from the official repo
/anchor/language/en_GB/posts.php

+  'time'         => 'Published on (GMT)',
+  'time_explain' => 'Pattern: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS',
+  'time_invalid' => 'Invalid time pattern',

and in the UI, to be able to adjust publication date.
/anchor/views/posts/edit.php

    <em><?php echo __('posts.slug_explain'); ?></em>
  </p>
+  <p>
+    <label><?php echo __('posts.time'); ?>:</label>
+    <?php echo Form::text('created', Input::previous('created', $article->created)); ?>
+    <em><?php echo __('posts.time_explain'); ?></em>
+  </p>

Inspiration

• https://m65digest.substack.com/p/disassembling-crossroads-part-1
• https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/you-must-read-at-least-one-book-to-ride/
• https://www.nullpt.rs/breaking-the-4chan-captcha#getting-the-data
• https://raw.sh/posts/easy_reward_model_inference#user-content-fnref-1
• https://www.joshtumath.uk/posts/2024-11-08-how-a-bbc-navigation-bar-component-broke-depending-on-which-external-monitor-it-was-on/
• https://ntietz.com/blog/evolving-ergo-setup/#engineers_ref
• https://fleetwood.dev/posts/you-could-have-designed-SOTA-positional-encoding
• https://blog.adamcameron.me/2014/07/code-for-annotation-highlighter.html
• https://overreacted.io/what-is-javascript-made-of/
• https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-world-of-tomorrow/
• https://blog.langworth.com/imposter-attack#more-target-work
• https://blog.stevenchun.me/2024/06/Capacity-Conduction-Convection/

• https://tracydurnell.com/2024/12/17/in-praise-of-the-hundred-page-idea/

• https://cefboud.github.io/posts/compression/ -> use this for top right jump around on Mobile

• Include post tags from https://entropicthoughts.com/the-most-mario-colour-revisited
• https://samcurry.net/hacking-subaru for dark styling, code

TODO

• Display category of post (or tags?)
• Handle dark mode