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See my Journal for older updates, and my Tilde Town Feels for personal stuff.
A bit ago I had to roll back the change I made to the CSS with the auto theme. Sorry. Tried to do something to the CSS and then had to roll it back. The nature of less-than-optimally-frequent backups. Anyway. Quick little update because I felt like it.
Jesus fucking Louisus it's been almost a year. Almost a year since I last updated this thing but the muse of web development has me seized in its talons and it is shaking me about like a chew toy but for claws. And while I would very much like to indulge hir, I am supposed to be cramming for exams. I have to pass my Galaxies course but god they do not make it easy, huh. To keep myself accountable, unlike the self at the start of September, I am going to post my to-do list here:
- (low effort) Add an "auto" option to the theme selector
- (medium effort) Improve my links & resources page because WOW random links with very little context. Maybe I should use Zotero, like an academic or something
- (high effort) Transcribe my course notes into a Latex document, then turn that into HTML for posting here
- (the dreaded email) I lost my tilde town key when I had to reformat my hard disk so I have to send an email about that
On things I've done: I have a working Markdown to HTML converter via 11ty (Javascript) but to be honest I might just... homebrew my own. Yeah. My reasoning: Backing up my Neocities directory was hard, because the laptop I was using as storage ran Windows (boo) and for some reason it was ridiculously slow at copying things over. It kept getting stuck in those millions of Javascript files. Does Windows have something against thousands of tiny files, or something? Not sure. I realize this could have been avoided if I had just used GitHub but consider: one time I pushed to a work GitHub using my personal email and I still feel dread about that. Oh yeah speaking of: I hate being partially closeted. I'll probably vent about it on tilde when I get back in.
1 AM edit: Okay, added auto! Annnd there's bugs. Well. I managed to put a stopgap kind of fix but anyone using the blue theme on auto mode whose browsers already prefer dark mode will have both visited and unvisited links being the same colour. Until I fix it. I also need to make a better way of adding CSS for colour themes so I guess I will need to look intoa CSS pre-processor or something of the sort. I hope I find one that isn't based on Javascript but most realistically I'll just make some shit in Python and call it a day. I've found I really don't like dealing with npm (personal opinion).
Oh my god it's been fucking ages. Got all bogged down with the old stuff and decided to rip it all out and redo the thing.
Overwrote my last update by accident. Did a bunch of frantic bug fixing and so on after accidentally pushing the wrong folder through the Neocities CLI, and then deciding to just push the actual site.
Well, I've been working on a lot. Used part of KaleChip's style-switcher tutorial but the only thing I took away from it so far is that, holy shit, localStorageexists. So obviously I've been going ham on that.
Pushing this update despite it being incomplete because I've been having trouble testing localStorage on my machine and I'm thinking maybe it's because I'm dealing with local files. I'm hoping that this thing is persistent across a whole domain name and that it's only funky for me because I'm working locally, not even doing a localhost server or anything like that.
Huge changes!! Completely new CSS, based on aesthetics of illuminated manuscripts. Taking a medieval studies course has really fired me up. It's almost the end of term now, and this is what I'm doing instead of my physics presentation. I based this whole thing off a Carolingian font I found by Dr. Robert Pfeffer!!! Link and license on the Credits page. It's an amazing font!!! Highly recommend.
Much of the site's visual appeal comes from the fonts, but my browser by defualt overrides all fonts to replace them with Atkinson Hyperlegible because of my eye strain issues. The good thing about that is I can be sure it looks fine even without the awesome fonts! That said, I still need to do testing to see if the fonts can be uploaded to Neocities. The site does accept OTF, so I'm confident it will, just not sure how to represent them in the CSS. Like, a link to the filename or...?
I felt the index definitely needed a revamp. Moved the wizard orb from its lowly sidebar to the centre of the page itself. The alt text is simply "Navigation" because that is the information I wish to convey in case the image can't be seen, whether it's because someone is blind, or because the image simply didn't load. Information that it's a wizard just isn't all that necessary. Anyway! Instead of a list with descriptions of each page, I'm letting the page titles stand on their own. They're in a nice ring around the orb on wide screens, and in a row below it on narrow screens. I also have the image as an H2 because that's what it is! It's a heading! Semantically.
I still have the old CSS archived, but modified a bit to iron out some final bugs. I'll have to make an index page with all my CSS files and the like, because I do plan on making more. I asked my friend Vens (not on Neocities... yet) to name it, and we decided on "Pillars." Sure does have pillars! Anyway, if the previous style reminded me of Vens, this one reminds me of Twain. So I will probably ask them to name it if I ever retire it. Wow this site looks properly wizardly now! Immaculate.
My uni also has a course on Medieval magic, but it only runs every three years. It ran last year... I graduate in a year... AUGH! Depressing thought. I will have to speak with my academic advisor on whether I can come back for courses as an alumnum, a word which here is the gender-neutral version of alumnus/alumna that I made up. Or email the professor and let them know I will be dropping in unenrolled. The professor is awesome, I had the same one for my current Medieval class.
Upcoming (Hopefully)
This is more of a wishlist than anything.
- This one is already halfway complete: adding the original Yvette chatlogs. If you know, you know.
- Why and how I don't use apps on my phone and use my browser for everything. Also how I got custom CSS and stuff on my phone browser.
- A thing about my various opinions on things. Including reviving the old trans.html that I took down a while ago.
Message to a friend
A friend of mine from Tumblr told me they're leaving Tumblr for Neocities, but did not give me their new URL before they left. Instead, they gave me two parts of a message, the latter of which is presented here so that they may find me.
oh no, they're here for bowling practice, it was scheduled in. not sure how giraffes play this game, but yeah
Link to me
Please do not link to my site if you are not willing to make my button accessible through alt text.
