Iāve mentioned this before but I run the Pagecord blogging service and over the last few days I reworked all the markup of the public-facing blogs to remove Tailwind (should never have used it for this purpose!) and make the markup clean and tidy.
Anywayā¦ long story short, but Iāve added a feature that allows you to write custom CSS to style your blog which Iāve now done on my own Pagecord!
Iāve gone for a minimalist aesthetic, but I really like it. You can compare it to https://blog.pagecord.com which is using a default theme without a home page.
Iām actually pretty excited about launching this feature (will take 2-3 weeks while I battle-test) as I think it will make Pagecord as customisable as Bear Blog but much easier to use (and the ability to post by email!) and ā important ā quite a bit cheaper.
I also created a discount for 32bit Cafe members - 10% off using code 32BITCAFE2025. Thereās also a free plan but no hosted images.
aww thank you!! :D iāve been definitely doing that with recipes, even if i dont get to try new ones too often (cooking for a family does not allow for experimenting too much LOL, even if itās for my parents + grandma). im definitely holding pompoms if you do though, id love to see that!!
I added a note explaining exactly what Iām talking about when I write ātime management gamesā and a link to a page where I talk about where you can find said games and series that could be potential starting points to this page. Iām going to have to either put a table of contents on said starting points page or create more pages when I add more series. I didnāt realize until I started putting the page together how many series there are.
Iāve spent the last few days adding a status page to my main site. Iām pretty happy about how it came together. I added a JSON Feed generator to my little feed project. Then I set up the 11ty fetch plugin to fetch all the posts from the JSON Feed whenever I build my site. So the siteās static, but it has all the feed posts as of the most recent build.
I was originally planning to do the status.cafe approah of embedding the web version of the feed in an iframe, but I thought it would be fun to try this approach (and it was). And the status feed inherits the site styling this way, which is nice.
Iāve been putting off setting up any sort of automated build for the site because I didnāt really need it, but now Iāll probably set up a scheduled build a couple times a day to pull in any recent updates.
In addition to filling in new content: books, albums, skills, web directory entries, etc., I took some time to redo the homepage. Initially, it was only the top part (my name, image, and tagline). Now, I use the rest of the page to pull most recent items from a few of my siteās sections. I also added descriptions to every page so thatāas @starbreaker once brought to my attentionāthe ādescriptionā isnāt just the entire page content. I think I managed to get all of them, but itās entirely possible that a handful of pages fell through the cracks.
My next steps for the site are:
Fill in more text on the homepage
Update text descriptions on the skills pages
Figure out a way to manage RSS. Hugoās auto-RSS is a firehose, and Iād rather people be able to select which specific feeds theyād like to subscribe to (ideally, with just one feed URL, but I donāt know how to make this happen yet).
Add a /canon page
Add a /vision page
The vision page is my own idea; itās about how Iād like to see the world, how Iād like to see my life within it, etc. Itās a way of maintaining hope in dark times, I suppose.
A friend convinced me to use jekyll and it only took months upon months to make me make the transfer, coupled together with a lot of difficulty reading the documentation (my friend ended up explaining things to me often). Also got hit by the realization that my old website looked ugly, so I also redesign the whole thing.
And now Iām finally done! At least with the base part! Still need to update my art page and redesign the whole media log (and make the mobile version better, okay there is a lot more to do) but the bulk structure is done and I understand how to use Jekyll now (at least the parts that serve my purposes).
but Iām officially done! And am back at it (it being websites, I guess)
simplified, optimized and fixed some internal config. also all geoblock filters have been removed. ive been blocking 3 countries since summer but not anymore.
iāve also enabled dualstack on the vps so iāve joined the future:tm:
I am working on moving one of my sites from phoenix code into an ssg. Iāve used astro in the past but Iām trying to use hugo for this project. it is hard to learn a new system but Iām finding that Iām picking it up a lot faster and starting to understand a lot more of the terminology!
I added a table of contents to the time management games starting point page. I hated making it since I had quite a bit there, but at least now I just have to add to it for each new entry and donāt have to try to keep track of the ordered list tags for the most part.
I made a clock widget featuring a weird owl and using html5 canvasā¦ only to realise Bearblog doesnāt do html5. That should have been obvious in retrospect but I got carried away. I wish I could finish my site so I can add this kind of inane nonense lol
not had much time for web stuff lately but since there have been a lot of GDL-related news this week i of course updated my news page on GDLand. thinking about it i really should make a RSS feed for it soon-ish
