Okay, I think I can finally call this the "serious" revamp, the website looked too "fantasy" before, which gave it an unserious look.

On the bright side we are finally getting LaTeX maths working as actual text through KaTeX instead of using the SVG image pipeline I had before. This should be a pretty big improvement in the long run, both for efficiency and for actually working with mathematical text properly. I had been meaning to do this for a while, so I am very happy to finally have it done.

There were a few other things added for serious readers. I added a series mechanism which allows me to arrange essays in a series or order when one essay builds on context and logical scaffolding of the other, a citation generation system with DOI and a publication notes disclaimer, and I separated the notes and bibliography. Basically, I am trying to make the academic side of the website feel more like an actual place for reading and research rather than just a collection of essays I dumped onto my personal website.

I also renamed the site to the much shorter "Ashmoreth". The old name was getting a bit cumbersome and might be misunderstood, and I think this one works better.

This has been one of those upgrades when every time I thought I was finished I'd find another thing that I wanted changed. But I think the website is finally starting to look and function the way I originally wanted. There are still things I want to improve, obviously, because apparently I am incapable of leaving anything alone, but at least this time I can say the upgrade is actually finished. ♡