What’s going on, Internet? What did you do to your website today?
After one billion years, I finally fixed my atom feed >u> A very kind webmaster informed me I can use 11ty to help automate the feed via njk loops and data in a json file. There are probably easier ways to do it but I also wrote a really simple script with js to convert my old atom entries into the json data 
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I took some inspiration from @starbreaker and made a plain-text version of my site that mirrors all my posts 
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working on a halloween theme :) 
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This is a better implementation than mine; I was just using Lynx to dump plain text from HTML.
I worked on my Linkware Websets page, trying to make it easier to read. I put divider bars in between the entries, which I think helped a lot. I liked the idea of using the site’s button, if there was one, but realized that some of them were hard to read so I now have each entry titled. I also added 13 new/old sites to the page!
That was the big thing I had been meaning to do for a while but I did a few smaller things, too.
I added a new section to my Credits and Resources page, Handy Sites.
There are also a couple of new buttons at the bottom of my home page and some new things on the Buttons and Links page - an award for going down a hole, a Go Click on a Wall button at the top of my button wall and a new community button.
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Due to having so many websites, some of them end up partly neglected for years. But that just makes them all the more satisfying to fix up. Today, the shared setting sections on my writing site, that also received new art in addition to a clean-up and updated info.
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I’ve been planning on doing something similar. Maybe not completely plaintext but a massively simplified, lightweight version of the site that is quick and cheap to load even on bad connection.
I haven’t quite figured out a good workflow for turning my Nunjucks-templated post files into appropriate format though so it’s on my backburner.
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Today I updated the Haunted Woods to use the new leafless tree emoji. 
hVmark’s vanilla reference on Github was always a sanitized clone of the original parser I had been using and iterating on for more than a year now. Well, I’m sick of maintaining two codebases, so now the site runs off of the vanilla parser. The “original parser” has been reworked into a small translation layer, so the site-specific code remains intact to ensure functionality. Outside of benign whitespace nuances in the RSS feed generator, nothing has changed output-wise. The reference/translation layer pair is also 20% smaller than the original parser.
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Big update! Mvndy blog now is in RSS. 
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Added a new page for my Artist Trading Cards, since I’ve been getting back into those:
I’m trying to create more dedicated pages for my crafts and real-life art, so I’ll probably expand that section in the future. My site is getting a little cluttered…
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updated my october theme to affect my whole site & make other aesthetic changes beyond just page colors :)
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I woke up to a giant spike in traffic; seems my TUI article gained some sudden attention.
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Condolences. The HN crowd is unbelievably toxic.
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I haven’t seen anything unnecessarily egregious yet; just mostly people saying, “emacs, LOL.” Someone accused my site of lagging because of “JavaScript fuckery”, which made me laugh so hard because there’s little to no JS on the site (outside of the “art” page). Someone else said the “CSS bloat” (…I won’t lie, it’s a fair critique) made them not want to finish reading the article. They came back to it a few hours later and said I must have fixed the CSS because now the font’s different and everything runs better; they even gave me kudos for fixing it.
I haven’t edited the stylesheet since Friday. 
I’m mostly happy this happened because it allows my system to really stretch its legs. It’s been about 9-10 hours now, and there’s been no crash or slowdown from the traffic spike, even with the extra overhead of a strict firewall. I actually loosened some of the strict filtering behind the scenes, and the server is still holding strong without lag.
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I had suggested Emacs, too, but not on HN (it’s an even sillier place than Camelot) and without the LOL. Sorry about that.
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I saw that, and it’s all good. To be fair, it’s not a bad answer.
It’s just that too many HN people are dicks.
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