ROADMAP.md

ROADMAP.md

Status convention

Each item ends with [][].

  • First bracket: fill with STARTED (optional) or DONE when completed
  • Second bracket: fill with completion date (YYYY-MM-DD)

Example:

  • Add link-check workflow [DONE][2025-12-15]

Now (highest priority)

  • Fix icon display in section ‘Contact’ and in the footer (only Bluesky icon showing) [DONE][2025-12-24]
  • Publications: Start with the Title, then authors (Currently the other way around). Add hovering effect in title. [DONE][2025-12-24]
  • Homepage hero copy: upgrade site.description + CTA (make it specific and scannable) [DONE][2025-12-24]
  • Navigation polish: anchors from subpages + mobile menu behavior [DONE][2025-12-24]
  • Publications: verify data quality + tags + stable links (DOI/ADS/arXiv) [DONE][2025-12-24]
  • Performance quick wins: compress large images + lazy-load below-the-fold media [DONE][2025-12-24]
  • Projects: ensure each project page has role, key results, and links (paper/code) [DONE][2025-12-24]
  • Blog: start document to put ideas about future blog entries [DONE][2025-12-24]

Next

  • Re-style the “About” section. Follow instructions in about-revamp.md. This will need a new branch to work on these changes. [STARTED][2025-12-24]
    • About title should be larger, in line with Research and Resume sections.
    • Profile picture should span the column width.
    • Header text: “Building survey-to-inference pipelines to constrain massive-binary evolution and uncover compact companions at scale.” sounds a bit off. It’s a good description but it could use some rephrasing. Give me 3 different options to choose from.
  • Add extra buttons to display publications: [DONE][2025-12-24]
    • latest 10 (default)
    • More cited
    • First/second author
  • Add “All (ADS)” button next to “first/second author” [DONE][2025-12-24]
  • Add research metrics: [DONE][2025-12-24]
    • Total papers
    • total citations
    • h-index
    • g-index Add and upward green arrow with the number giving by how much each number increased from 2024 to 2025.
  • Add plots of: [DONE][2025-12-24]
    1. papers per year
    2. Citations per year
    3. Reads per year
    4. Indices per year: h-index, g-index, i10-index, read10-index. Use data from ADS.
  • Add a dedicated publications page (data-driven; keep URLs stable)(optional) [][]
  • [BUG] “Research” is the only button in the nav bar that doesn’t stay highlighted
  • SEO/social previews sanity check (remove duplicate <title>, confirm OpenGraph image, add per-page descriptions) [][]
  • Analytics: migrate off Universal Analytics (UA) or switch to a privacy-friendly option [][]
  • Add automated link checking (GitHub Action) [][]
  • Add somewhere past students. [][]
  • Update “key results” section of the SDSS-V project with some punchy lines/results from the Zari+2025 paper.
  • Update README file, remove everything related to WhatATheme

Later

  • Add “Talks / Posters” page [][]
  • Add bilingual support (EN/ES) [][]
  • Create a Readthedocs page for MINATO (will be done as part of the minato repo: /Users/villasenor/science/github/jvillasr/MINATO/minato)
  • Add “Teaching / Outreach” page (optional) [][]
  • Add HTML validation / accessibility smoke checks (lightweight) [][]
  • Discuss visits metrics; I’d like to have stats of how many people visit the webpage, what do they click on, etc.

Ideas parking lot

  • Dark mode toggle (only if it stays simple and consistent) [][]
  • Better publication search (client-side, small, no heavy deps) [][]
  • “Featured highlights” strip for top 3 papers/projects [][]