date: 'Wednesday, July 31 2024' title: 'The blog is not just a bunch of links'

description: 'Finally updated the blog UI! This is only phase one though.'

The blog is not just a bunch of links

Written by Brenda Zhang

Highlight:

• The changelog is a bunch of links, which is fine, but the blog should not be just a bunch of links. And now it's not! We have card UI! Who doesn't love card UI? The cards are derived from a reusable component I made for the tools, so it was as simple as switching out the data and modifying the header to to have a few featured posts and not be as far down as the ones on other pages.

More stuff I did:

• Published! I published all of my blog writing team's articles for the week! You should definitely check them out so you can dive even deeper into each tool in the directory. Or just learn something new about tech and tools in general.

• Started using the Cloudinary CDN for images, including the images in the new blog articles. Definitely noticed a difference in the page loads. Also, my Netlify build no longer takes 8 minutes, but 1.5 minutes, which is a huge bonus.

Minor things you wouldn't care much about but I do:

• I know this isn't a life changelog, but I really want to share this. I started using the Arc browser today, and it's made a world of difference in my ICT workflow. Highly recommend. Also recommend reading the newsletter issue where I talk about a bunch of different and browsers.

• Tool card titles are now clickable (and therefore, purple).

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