It's been years since I paid much attention to my personal blog, dropping by only occasionally to post something new, moderate comments, or apply Drupal updates. I've been wanting to upgrade for a while, and the current status of Drupal 9 + its core themes Olivero (front-end) and Claro (admin) convinced me to spend a few evenings making it happen. However, I didn't want to just rock the default blue palette the Olivero theme uses by default.

In various areas of my life, my motif is late 70's, early 80's ... '77 Alfa Spider, long hair and trucker hat, fleece lined sherpa jacket, etc. I'll work all night grooving to CCR or Darksynth, and if I can't have an angular Lamborghini Countach, I can at least dream of a Tesla Cybertruck. To make Olivero "mine", I opted for an 80's synthwave inspired palette pairing the Centarro purple with neon pink accents.

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