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---
title: "New Site Part 2: Electric Boogaloo"
date: 2022-02-02
---

Hey y'all! You've probably noticed quite a few things that are different about
this site. First and foremost, the theme. Gone is the harsh black-on-white theme
that was hell on the eyes, especially in a projection booth. I'm rather partial
to the [gruvbox] color scheme, so I figured taking the dark theme and applying
it to my site as well as my editor would be a good idea.

I've also overhauled the backend. This site is now running a `warp.rs` server on
the backend. The source can be found [here][src].

This has led to some interesting issues. By far the biggest one was
footnotes[^1]. I'm using [comrak] as my markdown parsing library, which
correctly implements the CommonMark spec. Footnotes are, unfortunately, not part
of that spec, so they're an extension, along with superscript and a few others.
Since footnotes are displayed in superscript, I thought that both extensions had
to be enabled. This led to quite a long month of not being able to figure out
why my footnotes weren't being parsed correctly, but as it turns out it was
these two extensions fighting.

[^1]: Hey, you found one!


[gruvbox]: https://github.com/mohertz/gruvbox
[src]: https://git.carathe.dev/~muirrum/site
[comrak]: https://github.com/kivikakk/comrak
---
title: "New Site Part 2: Electric Boogaloo"
date: 2022-02-02
---

Hey y'all! You've probably noticed quite a few things that are different about
this site. First and foremost, the theme. Gone is the harsh black-on-white theme
that was hell on the eyes, especially in a projection booth. I'm rather partial
to the [gruvbox] color scheme, so I figured taking the dark theme and applying
it to my site as well as my editor would be a good idea.

I've also overhauled the backend. This site is now running a `warp.rs` server on
the backend. The source can be found [here][src].

This has led to some interesting issues. By far the biggest one was
footnotes[^1]. I'm using [comrak] as my markdown parsing library, which
correctly implements the CommonMark spec. Footnotes are, unfortunately, not part
of that spec, so they're an extension, along with superscript and a few others.
Since footnotes are displayed in superscript, I thought that both extensions had
to be enabled. This led to quite a long month of not being able to figure out
why my footnotes weren't being parsed correctly, but as it turns out it was
these two extensions fighting.

[^1]: Hey, you found one!


[gruvbox]: https://github.com/mohertz/gruvbox
[src]: https://git.carathe.dev/~muirrum/site
[comrak]: https://github.com/kivikakk/comrak