a work in progress
As an exercise in learning some modern CSS I decided to rebuild this website template from scratch. I transitioned it away from the Poison theme to a brand new one I made by hand. I’m still working on where I want to put some things. Putting my link buttons back, maybe on their own page, and deciding if I’m going to add more social media links. But I’m pretty pleased with how it looks here now.
Continue reading "Redesign"I decided today to update my website, boy oh boy that was a saga. First I had to remember where I kept these files, then remember how to compile and upload the site. There was some brief detours with troubleshooting (tip: hugo won’t compile pages in the future by default, check your date when posting). I decided that since I’m playing with NixOS for my coding environments now anyway, it was time to move everything over there and maybe do it more correctly.
Continue reading "New Toys"This is a test of the new comments system. I wonder if it works? Update: Nope. Due to the site’s hosting we can’t fetch data cross-site. Sad.
Continue reading "Comments"Recently there’s been a resurgence of ‘old web’ idealism in the cloud of folks I’m following. This is mostly evident in simpler static websites, but things like Webrings and button links are coming back as well. I decided to get in on the action by making my own (crappy) little link button for this site. I made it pixel by pixel in Aseprite, which was a fun process. No outside fonts or anything, it’s all from my own silly brain.
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