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I'm sure that not everybody is interested in how a site is constructed, especially with simple blog-in-the-can software that's out there. However, I like to know the ins-and-outs of everything I'm working on, so I've managed to build this entire site from scratch.

As my goals for the site change, I tweak the code. Sometimes it's to add functionality, and sometimes it's to remove redundancy. But it's always to make things a little better.

NEXT STEPS

2021-12-25 14:22:32
by: jovial_cynic
I want to revamp this site into something smarter, mobile-friendly, and more useful. I built this thing out of perl, and set it up to make sense for me, but maintaining the back end of a site is a lot of work. And then having bots that like to fill out webforms with spam is annoying as well.

I'm contemplating just using a turn-key site maker and converting everything over and letting someone else worry about the backend. But if you know me at all, you know that I bristle at the thought of that. I don't like the idea of having things running in the background that I don't understand, and then having to ask someone else for help fixing my own site.

I'll figure something out. But this has been on my mind for a while.

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GODOBYE AND HELLO

2021-11-13 17:31:55
by: jovial_cynic
I think I'm going to say goodbye to social media entirely.

Earlier this month, I stopped logging into Facebook and took it off my browser quick links and my phone. I still have the account, but if I find that I don't log into it through the end of the year, I'm going to just delete my profile entirely. I never check my Instagram account (although I just posted a photo of my kindle and the new composition-notebook cover). Twitter is starting to bore me. And with the advent of the Metaverse, I think I'm just done.

And this means that I'll have more time to do everything else, to include maintaining this site and posting photo journals of my projects. We'll see.

Anyhow, goodbye social media. Hello, new protesters.

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LOTS OF BUG FIXES

2021-05-13 20:44:46
by: jovial_cynic
I've been nerding out this evening correcting a bunch of broken links on this site. Apparently, I had (and maybe still have?) a bunch of embeded youtube videos using some sort of Flash-based code. Since Flash support went away a long time ago, I have to go through and clean it all up.

Having embedded code at all is kind of a weird thing. Who knows if some competitor will come in and swallow youtube up, breaking all the links on this site? How annoying would that be?

I could personally host all of my own videos, I suppose. But I certainly couldn't host videos that don't belong to me, so I don't know what I'd do in that situation, other than just have to go through and clean up my code again.

It's kind of annoying.

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WOW. TWO YEARS?

2020-06-10 11:15:45
by: jovial_cynic
It's been over two years since I've updated this site. Weird.

I've been doing a lot over at the podcast website, which has been taking up a lot of my time. Between managing the audio/visual content, keeping the site interesting, coming up with podcast content, etc., etc., it's a lot of work!

Plus, the day job, the 3d printing/scanning hobby, and I guess now I'm fiddling around w/ game development using Godot? I sure know how to keep myself busy.

Anyhow, I just wanted to post something here, so here it is.


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CATEGORIES OVERHAUL

2008-11-11 12:43:57
by: jovial_cynic
I've recently performed an overhaul on the categories page of this site, which is what brings up all the posts of a particular topic. Right now, the content is broken down into the following sections:

CRITICISM
PROJECTS
MISC


Under each heading is a list of sub-headings, which previously linked to an archived list of posts from that sub-heading. In the past, that archive was just a list of links and dates. Now, clicking on one of those sub-headings provides the reader with a brief description of the sub-heading, full-text of the five most recent posts, and the rest of the posts archived as links.

This should make the site a little more pleasant to navigate. It also gives me the flexibility to change the focus of the category on the fly. This is much better than a column of links.

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