Add Mastodon link to social footer

[vielmetti]

The Mastodon link at @aha@a2mi.social is omitted from the bottom footer on the main page of the site.

[vielmetti]

Looks like one piece of this is adding an icon, which is at

site/_data/authors.yml

Line 6 in 38da656

links:

fontawesome has this icon at https://fontawesome.com/icons/mastodon?f=brands&s=solid

[artlogic]

Good catch @vielmetti - any chance you feel up to creating a PR for this?

[vielmetti]

@artlogic I can try a PR. What version of Font Awesome are we using? I can't figure out where that gets pulled in. And do we have a test system where I can see what the PR looks like?

[artlogic]

It's being pulled in from the parent theme: https://mmistakes.github.io/minimal-mistakes/

Remote PRs don't get built on the test system, but local ones do. I'll get you access to this repo so you can take advantage of that.

[vielmetti]

Let's do #182 (update minimal-mistakes) first -- the change log for that suggests some changes to font awesome.

[artlogic]

All ready for you @vielmetti

[vielmetti]

Some looking at this:

Since the latest release of Minimal Mistakes, Font Awesome has made some changes. It looks like there are unreleased bits that track those changes, e.g. at mmistakes/minimal-mistakes#3599 .

The Mastodon icon was introduced in Font Awesome 5.8.0: FortAwesome/Font-Awesome#17980

I was able to put together a patch that added the link, but didn't add the icon. I'll get that as a PR to review, but I don't think it will be ready to merge just yet.

[vielmetti]

I got the link into the footer in #186 but I'm puzzled by Font Awesome, and several attempts to load the glyph (which is supported only in FA 5.8.0) haven't worked.

[artlogic]

@SKBruck any insight here?

[SKBruck]

I can try to get minimal mistakes updated and see if that will resolve issues. I had run into an issue updating which is why it hasn't been pushed as a pr yet. I'm wrapping gifts so I'll look at what's up again and try to get a PR pushed tomorrow after family stuff. I can't currently add details because I'm afk, but iirc the problem was local to my machine.

[artlogic]

Done!