RSS & Atom syndication (lib/feeds.ksh)
Tags, archives, sitemap & OG meta (lib/tags.ksh,lib/archives.ksh)
Reading time
Callout macros
Refactor: publish.ksh split into library modules
Comments: commentbox.io → giscus
Spleen font fix (static/fonts/spleen-12x24.woff2)
Unicode fix (lib/helpers.ksh)
9600 baud terminal print effect(static/js/terminal-print.js)
CRT visual effects

Emiel Kollof
March 04, 2026 08:40:11
website, ssg, update

I guess when I said update, I meant update. This is what has changed in the SSH that’s running this site:

RSS & Atom syndication (lib/feeds.ksh)

Added public/rss.xml with full post body in <description> as CDATA. Atom feed also added as part of the larger infrastructure commit.

Tags, archives, sitemap & OG meta (lib/tags.ksh,lib/archives.ksh)

Tag pages (/tags/*.html), a chronological archive page, sitemap.xml, and Open Graph <meta> tags on posts for social sharing previews.

Reading time

Estimated reading time calculated from word count and displayed on each post.

Callout macros

New groff macros added for callout/note blocks in post source.

Refactor: publish.ksh split into library modules

publish.ksh broken out into sourced modules under lib/: helpers.ksh, posts.ksh, pages.ksh, feeds.ksh, tags.ksh, archives.ksh, assets.ksh.

Comments: commentbox.io → giscus

  • Replaced commentbox.io with giscus (GitHub Discussions-backed). Styled to match the terminal theme, with the input box moved above the comment list.
  • Giscus custom theme (static/css/giscus-terminal.css) - Terminal green colour palette and VT323 font, with !important overrides to beat Tailwind’s font-family rules.

Spleen font fix (static/fonts/spleen-12x24.woff2)

Replaced a corrupted woff2 with the real file from the Spleen 2.2.0 release tarball. Added font-smooth: never / -webkit-font-smoothing: none to prevent blurry rendering (Spleen is a bitmap font that must render without anti-aliasing).

Unicode fix (lib/helpers.ksh)

Added -k -K utf-8 to the groff invocation so non-ASCII characters are passed through correctly.

9600 baud terminal print effect(static/js/terminal-print.js)

Streams .post-content at 960 chars/sec on load. Space/Enter/click skips the animation. Added to post.html.tmpl and static.html.tmpl.

CRT visual effects

  • CSS (static/css/base.css): scanline grid overlay, vignette, green phosphor bloom, text-shadow glow on body and h1.
  • JS (static/js/crt-effects.js): canvas overlay with rolling scanline, noise bands, rare flicker, and horizontal jitter. Added to all 5 templates.