Nice, Iāve been collecting a list of alternative search over here
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I love this so much! Give Baxter lots of pets for me
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Today I combined my theme toggle to a single button and moved it to the top navigation as having it down the bottom was annoying to me
Next goal for this is to swap out the button with some sweet SVG icons
I also added a back to ātopā link in the footer to quickly get back to the top!
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I added a section to my website for posting Projects! Itās basically empty at the moment, though. I still need to figure exactly how I want to use Eleventy collections to organize things, and I need to add Eleventy Image and get responsive, optimized images working before I start showing things off!
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I love this so much. Bookmarked for future Baxter updatesā¦
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Thatās a good cat.
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Replaced autogenerated (from the filename) accessible descriptions for the images on my assets page with manually written ones:
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Most of the changes are probably fairly subtle.
- the link to my home page is more clearly labeled
- the ārecentā feed/index now consists of all posts for the current year
- instead of showing the most recent post on my home page, I link to the ten most recent posts
- thereās also a new RSS feed for my ten latest posts
- the site map for people now links to all blog posts after linking to various post indexes
- I ripped out the siteās JavaScript for JS Naked Day. There wasnāt much in the first place and I might not bother to put it back.
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I wrote a page about Belgian comics.
Piece by piece Iām crafting a little Belgian pop-cultural canon for non-Belgian audiences. There was another page about Belgium I had hoped to add, but I kinda overestimated the effort it would take.
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i finally got a domain name!
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Wrote a much needed status update. The last one was several months ago!
Changed the dates from <span> tags into <h3> tags to make it easier to edit and read on my end.
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Finally found The Aggressives (2005) for my trans film page, so I added a link to it - iāve been searching for literally 3 years.
And added a new favourite recipe to my kitchen - fruity porridge
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Been ill in bed so I gave my long-neglected personal site a much-needed revamp. The code is better, although the impact is subtle; and Iāve got lots of half-finished pages polished and up
- How I make perfect padding which shrinks away and vanishes on mobile
- A program to generate gradient patterns for knitting, cross stitch, crochet etc
- Advice on organising the files on your website
- A tutorial on converting pixel layouts to rem in the Computer Lab
- A 88x31 for WinSCP in the pixels room
- Added a link to my queer trans men health zine for sexual health providers who only learned people like you existed 5 minutes ago
- Added a new recipe to the Kitchen - fruity porridge!
- Added a comprehensive takedown of Female Masculinity and why it is the wrong book to base a new transmasculine politics on
The next thing I donāt seem to have on there is a decent link page, so thatāll be my next big push
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Updated my recordshelf with my latest purchases, Smash and Significant Other
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itās been about a week, but i havenāt shown it or mentioned it anywhere. sometimes today can be 5 days ago. i updated the color scheme and altered the layout again on my page.
also, i removed webmention support. i thought about how it was cluttering up my markup to implement h-card/h-entry etc formats andā¦ i donāt know, it felt clunky to me. maybe iāll revisit it some day.
stll deliberating how my homepage should look: splash in the most post, write a little blurb, the first ~200 characters of the last ~5 posts, with pagination, etc. i donāt really know what my website should be, still.
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my future plans are to finally bringo ver some of those ācoming soonā pages in the nav. perhaps this weekend i will find the time.
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also, i removed webmention support. i thought about how it was cluttering up my markup to implement h-card/h-entry etc formats andā¦ i donāt know, it felt clunky to me. maybe iāll revisit it some day.
ahh same! I keep looking at the indieweb stuff & wanting to support what theyāre doing and also link up our networks with theirs, cus itās a lonely old internet for us out of the mainstream,
But exactly as you say: it just feels clunky, Iāve got a sort of aesthetic distaste for it.
Iām also reminded a bit of a blog post I read about PGP keys - a guy said he didnāt like receiving emails decrypted with PGP keys cus it meant he was about to have to read something from someone who was that into PGP XD - so I suppose Iām thinking, in part, āis anything I write that interesting to the sort of person who uses webmentions?ā
I think Iām also experiencing ambivalence about how much I want my website to be easily interpreted by machines.
But I do want to see & support an independent standard like this and for it to grow.
It doesnāt help that the indieweb documentation is not the most user-friendly (maybe improving it should be a job for me). Itās classic open-source-failure-mode to write a wiki page on microformats, and the only text describing what it is reads āmicroformats2 is the latest stable and interoperable version of microformatsā, as if the first and most important question a new user has is going to be ābut is it stable and interoperable?ā rather than āwhat is a microformat?ā XD
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āFinishedā updating my primary colors page! I changed some diagrams and wording to be clearer. The page itself is about how how there really arenāt three ātrueā primary colors. You can choose any colors to be primaries, some will work better than others, but none will make all colors.
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did you ever read James Gurneyās art blog? He wrote Dinotopia and does a traditional, realist art style (plus dinosaurs). Heās a big color geek and often posts on different systems of understanding color.
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I havenāt heard of him before! I visited his site because of your reply and his work looks great! Maybe one of these days Iāll get his books on Imaginative Realism and Color and Light. It took me a while, but I finally found some posts on his blog on color! The Color Wheel Part 4 is particularly relevant. He even noticed that red and orange seem disproportionally represented on most color wheels, something that has bothered me as well! When simplifying rainbow color schemes/gradients orange is the first one I remove.
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I added a proper light mode to my site instead of the weird black-on-white thing I had going on, and while I was at it, āplainā versions without the busy background and logo. That choice was partly inspired by the person who said they were put off by the Satanic imagery, which is fair. But also, some people just like plain! Haha.
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