šŸš§ What did you do to your website today?

sooo cute. baxter is so photogenic! your baxter pages make me want to make a proper page for my cat too!

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he is such a wonderful cat. If you get the time or chance to make a site for your cat please share it here! I love seeing more pets with homepages!

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Iā€™ve added a ā€œdomains to avoidā€ page where I list domains that arenā€™t real websites, but hosted on Medium or Substack. The former has always been a content farm, and the latter is not only a content farm, but a Nazi bar.

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Two questions:

  1. Would blocking substack.com and medium.com in uOrigin (or the equivalent) solve for this? I guess thereā€™s also an element of naming and shaming these :man_shrugging:
  2. If the above doesnā€™t work, I wonder if you would consider providing the service of a downloadable list that can be ingested into something like uOrigin, Piehole, or whatever eqiuvalent. Spread the blocks and love or whatever.

That would work for me, but not help anybody else.

Done.

https://starbreaker.org/assets/downloads/boycott-medium-substack-hosts.txt

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Thank you very much!

https://elpis.ws new issue is out. ZINE about small net.

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Pushed a tiny little update to my site. :jack_o_lantern:

  • Added a status update for today.
  • Added a simple CSS sheet for the holiday.

Iā€™d be more ambitious with the CSS (Like changing the BG of the quick about me page.) but I hurt my hand today (Unrelated cause.) so Iā€™m having a hard time typing as is. I had to use a markdown to HTML converter to write a section of the status. :sweat_smile:

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Added the round-up post for the IndieWeb Carnival I hosted!

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updated my ascii art museum! the css + html was such a mess oh my god. itā€™s not pristine now but it was SO BAD before. itā€™s still a little cramped feeling, so iā€™ll probably do a bit more tinkering at some point, but for now iā€™m happy with the improvements.

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Today I added some much needed pagination to my Bookmarks page.

Figuring out how to surface the tags so that surfers can browse via tag like they can with my posts.

Itā€™s not ready to push, but Iā€™ve been breaking up my novels into separate pages per chapter, starting with my 2009 draft of Starbreaker. This is how it looks so far, but Iā€™m not satisfied with the template; I think I can make it more generic and thus reusable for my other works.

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I just remembered I had something I wanted to tell you about your site. Since you have a lot of anchor links you can make the overall experience 1% better by adding a scroll-padding: 1.5em; to the :root

This way when someone uses an anchor link rather than getting this

With the title right at the top edge of the screen they get this

With some breathing room. I personally find it a lot more pleasing, especially on mobile

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Thanks. I hadnā€™t thought of that. Iā€™m going to implement it now so that it shows up the next time I run make install. Just gonna use rem instead of em, though, for consistencyā€™s sake.

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I added another quote to my 13th Doctor shrine:

ā€œThese are the dark times. But they donā€™t sustain. Darkness never sustains even though sometimes it feels like it might.ā€

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i changed from the halloween theme to an autumn theme: https://xandra.cc/

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I recently abandoned Wordpress and remade my site from scratch as a static website. Handwrote the markup and styling, and (with the help of an LLM, I canā€™t code!) wrote a custom static site generator in python.

Been spending the better part of a week writing a post on that whole process. Including a couple of hours today. Going to be a long one.

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Cleaned up the footer on my website, and added a short statement of values at the very end. Itā€™s also a new addition to my forum sig. :arrow_down:

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got on neocities! for community-building for the lack of a better word.

https://ririris.neocities.org/ redirects to https://riri.my!!

while i find NC hosting quite limited, and therefore donā€™t host on there, i still feel like i should have a NC account to discover new sites and have my site discovered!

i posted four premade layout templates iā€™ve made!!! they are here. iā€™m very proud of them! i donā€™t know how USEFUL they are, but they were interesting to make and thatā€™s what matters, haha! i spent all day today on the tumblrlike one. lots of tinkering to make it responsive.

dismayed to find that cutercounter is down now, i used it for counters on two of the layoutsā€¦ hopefully itā€™s just temporary.

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