pinned posts and styling

Author: devalog

_pages/books.md

@@ -10,21 +10,8 @@ permalink: /books/
   {% for post in pinned_book_posts %}
     <article class="pinned-post">
       <span class="pinned-label">📌</span>
-      <small>
-        Published: {{ post.date | date_to_string }}
-        {% if post.updated %}
-        <br><span class="updated-date">Updated: {{ post.updated | date_to_string }}</span>
-        {% endif %}
-      </small>
       <h2><a href="{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title | markdownify | remove: '<p>' | remove: '</p>' }}</a></h2>
       <p>{{ post.excerpt }}</p>
-      {% if post.tags.size > 0 %}
-        <div class="post-tags">
-          {% for tag in post.tags %}
-            <a href="{{site.baseurl}}/archive.html#{{tag | slugize}}" class="post-tag">#{{ tag }}</a>
-          {% endfor %}
-        </div>
-      {% endif %}
     </article>
   {% endfor %}
 

_pages/tech.md

@@ -10,21 +10,8 @@ permalink: /tech/
   {% for post in pinned_tech_posts %}
     <article class="pinned-post">
       <span class="pinned-label">📌</span>
-      <small>
-        Published: {{ post.date | date_to_string }}
-        {% if post.updated %}
-        <br><span class="updated-date">Updated: {{ post.updated | date_to_string }}</span>
-        {% endif %}
-      </small>
       <h2><a href="{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title | markdownify | remove: '<p>' | remove: '</p>' }}</a></h2>
       <p>{{ post.excerpt }}</p>
-      {% if post.tags.size > 0 %}
-        <div class="post-tags">
-          {% for tag in post.tags %}
-            <a href="{{site.baseurl}}/archive.html#{{tag | slugize}}" class="post-tag">#{{ tag }}</a>
-          {% endfor %}
-        </div>
-      {% endif %}
     </article>
   {% endfor %}
 

_site/assets/main.css

@@ -43,26 +43,19 @@
 
     <article class="pinned-post">
       <span class="pinned-label">📌</span>
-      <small>
-        Published: 19 Aug 2025
-        
-      </small>
       <h2><a href="/2025/08/19/booklist.html">Books I’ve read
 </a></h2>
       <p><p>All the books I’ve read since January 2020.</p>
 </p>
-      
-        <div class="post-tags">
-          
-            <a href="/archive.html#books" class="post-tag">#books</a>
-          
-        </div>
-      
     </article>
 
 
   <!-- Regular book posts (excluding pinned ones) -->
+
 
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+  
+
 
     <article>
       <small>
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         Published: 21 Feb 2025
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     </article>
 
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       <small>
         Published: 17 Feb 2025
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         Published: 27 Jan 2025
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         Published: 08 Dec 2024
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         Published: 08 Dec 2024
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         Published: 08 Dec 2024
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         Published: 03 Jul 2024
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         Published: 17 Jun 2024
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         Published: 05 Jan 2024
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         Published: 08 Jul 2023
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     </article>
 
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         Published: 21 Sep 2022
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         Published: 24 Jul 2022
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         Published: 08 May 2022
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         Published: 10 Apr 2022
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         Published: 18 Jan 2022
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         Published: 09 Jan 2022
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         Published: 27 Dec 2021
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         Published: 04 Dec 2021
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         Published: 29 Oct 2021
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         Published: 05 Aug 2021
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         Published: 08 Jul 2021
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         Published: 08 Apr 2021
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         Published: 04 Feb 2021
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         Published: 01 Jan 2021
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         Published: 26 Sep 2020
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         Published: 13 Jun 2020
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         Published: 08 Jun 2020
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_site/assets/main.css.map

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_site/books/index.html

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ img {
 
 /* Spacing after posts */ 
 .post-list article {
-  margin-bottom: 2em;
+  margin-bottom: 3em;
 }
 
 /* TOC styling */
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ img {
 .pinned-post {
   padding: 1.5rem;
   margin-bottom: 2rem;
-  background-color: #e6ffe6;
+  background-color: #e6f3ff;
   border-radius: 12px;
   box-shadow: 0 4px 8px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1), 0 2px 4px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.06);
 }