As I sit down to write this on the first day of 2026, I find myself looking back at what has been an extraordinary year for Blowfish. What started as a personal project to build my own Hugo theme has grown into something I never imagined - a thriving open-source community with contributors from all around the world. By the Numbers 2025 was a year of significant growth. Here's where we stand: - 2,500+ stars on GitHub (up from around 600 when I wrote the first tutorial in late 2023) - 645 forks of the repository - 241 contributors who have helped shape Blowfish - 3,928 commits to the main branch - 1,390 merged pull requests - 16 releases throughout the year (v2.81.0 to v2.94.0) These numbers represent real people who chose to use Blowfish for their personal sites, blogs, and portfolios. Every star, every fork, every contribution tells a story of someone who found value in this project. That means the world to me. Feature Highlights We shipped a lot of new functionality this year. Here are some of the highlights: New Shortcodes - Tabs - Create tabbed content blocks for better organization - Gallery - Beautiful image galleries out of the box - Gist - Embed GitHub gists directly in your content - Video - Native video embedding support Visual Enhancements - GitHub Alerts/Admonitions - Those nice callout boxes you see on GitHub READMEs?

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