One thing you might have noticed is that daily items in the new blog are chronological interleaved, as opposed to grouping the notes at the top and links as the bottom of each day. A couple of reasons for this change in direction.
First off, when I got the new design working, without all the boxes around the content, there was much more space, but also the left margin borders on links and notes still made these posts stand out enough that I felt like the new design looks like it might be quite well suited to this setup, to just post things as they are published.
But secondly, the render times are so much quicker, all done just under 2 minutes per post once you include pushing to Netlify, I‘m considering re-rendering the site on each post rather than daily.
So I figured I would try out just posting things in the exact order I write them. Not sure I will stick with this yet, but it‘s nice to experiment a bit.
Luckily with the new blogging system, it‘s relatively straight forward. There are middlewares to load data and organise the data, and since you can write your own middleware, you can easily organise your data into buckets however you want and they get slotted into the pages all the same.