Despite my passion for light-on-dark themes, not everyone finds them as readable and enjoyable as I do. To address these concerns I investigated what it would take to add a drop-down to this website to enable dynamic selection of themes by the user.

Bootswatch Theme Dropdown

The relevant code is given, but for those interested in a complete example take a look at the website github.

Having recently moved to Pelican, I found myself interested in seeing how I could coerce my server (runing Apache) into taking proper advantage of the bulk of the website being static.

There’s lots of information on the subject out there, but below I describe the few easy changes I made to greatly improve performance of my website.