Introducing my blog

[McDic]

Hello people,

I migrated my blog to mkdocs-material from Jekyll TeXt Theme due to several restrictions.

• Blog Main Page: https://blog.mcdic.net/
• Blog Architecture: https://blog.mcdic.net/architecture/

Thanks!

[McDic]

8 months after migrated the blog, my blog got some nice features on top of this mkdocs theme, all implemented myself.

Auto-scrolling button

If you press the button at the top, you will be able to move to top/bottom of the page without putting additional effort.

Sorted posts

My blog sorts the posts by updated date, unique views, or created date.

• Recent posts: https://blog.mcdic.net/sorted/recent/
• Most viewed posts: https://blog.mcdic.net/sorted/most_viewed/
• Archives: https://blog.mcdic.net/archives/2021/ , etc
• Series: https://blog.mcdic.net/series/rust/ , etc

Post statistics and history

For every post, statistics from Google analytics and history from git system are provided.

[McDic]

Random music player

Recently I added random music player from the Soundcloud. Users can optionally play random music from my playlist.

[Wcowin]

Great feature, how did you implement it?

[McDic]

@Wcowin I overrided HTML templates and wrote some Javascripts to embed Soundcloud Widget API, please have a look on partials/headers/musicplayer.html and javascripts/musicplayer.js.

[LandonTClipp]

This is actually really cool. I was wondering how to best implement the view counter, I'm glad to see you made it work. I'm gonna have to borrow this :D

[McDic]

Quiz pages

I introduced brain teaser quiz pages in my blog. Currently there are few, but I plan to make more. The quiz pages looks not very different from end user view, but it has some different internal mechanics and semantics when my custom blog plugin works for it.

Random redirections

I've added random redirection pages for both my blog posts and quizzes, because now I think there are enough amount of personal blog posts to make random routing. Click here to test random blog post.