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