I really should be heading to bed...

But! I've added a Now page! What is a now page? It's kind of a less frequently updated blog/todo list. A summary of what I've been up to recently that I can point friends to, rather than having them infinitely scroll through social media.

There's more here*, and I could sned an email and have mine added to their page, but I won't.

*If you see this in your inbound links, hello.

I rearranged my pages. Moved /gallery.html & /blog.html to /gallery/index.html & /blog/index.html. Wasn't too bad to update everything thanks to Visual Studio Code. I could just use PHP for the headers again, but I'm keeping this as simple as I can. Why? ...I don't know.

Anyway, updating the blog and gallery should be as simple as moving their respective folders to the server and overwriting older files.

I found a website that allows me to embed bluesky posts. Look!

I made a tiny website: capydeev.me. Actually I made it in the last weeks of last year. No website builders, all my own css, which is why it's so basic haha.

[image or embed]

— Capy (@me.capydeev.me) Jan 12, 2025 at 19:17

Yeah more scripts and custom HTML tags. At least the embed website provides a link to the script. I've decided to add it to the top of this page in case I decide to embed more posts.

Still not too sure about embedding actual comment replies (and I can embed bluesky/mastodon threads) and such. It might be neat, but I'd have to moderate them and eeehh.

Have a random tune. Been liking this one from Phrakture a lot. Nice bit of nostalgia.

As you can see, I've made this page look like a livehjournal kind of page. I never got into Livejournal, but I lurked quite a bit when it was still active. A lot of people have talked about the lack of customisation on the web nowadays, and Livejournal is a good example of what we lost. They used to be able to choose not just one avatar, but one per post. Can you imagine that on a modern social media site? I'm surprised they even let us choose an avatar.

Initially I had this set up by abusing ::before pseudo-elements in CSS. These were used to add the avatar, and the text "posted by @capydeev - " before the date*.

I then realised that actually using image tags would let my choose an "avatar" for each post. Also, I wasn't sure if screen readers could read text added by CSS content attributes or not. Then more pissing about happened, and I decided to link to my "profile" (about page) on each post.

I really need to find some under construction gifs for this website, huh?

*Actually, I initially had the yappy icon on the top right corner of the article border, and rotated at -10 degrees. It looked pretty neat, and I might use it for quotes, but then decided on this layout instead, because I found it funny. I didn't grab any screenshots, and I can't be arsed to recreate it now.

The updates never end. Added an easter egg to the site* which required more hammering the CSS. I should probably tidy that file up more. Later.

I might get rid of the sticky position titles on this page. They were neat at first but maybe they're a bit busy/cluttered. Got a few more pieces to add to the gallery later.

*Spoiler - it's on this page, and the gallery.

Happy new year! Let's hope 2025 isn't too bad for us all.

Continuing to tinker with this website. Made some tiny changes to the CSS (to achieve the same end. Just moved some code from the YT embed CSS to my own stylesheet).

Maybe I should make an actual blog page. Hmm... Despite not using any dynamic page wizardry, it shouldn't be too much effort to add new entries to the menu. I decided not to have a nav list for the blog entries in the empty right hand column for now.

Oh! Speaking of which I should update the footer to say 2025 now shouldn't I?

I have a bad habit of listening to whatever's at the top of my youtube likes.

I'm just testing Lite YouTube Embed.

Neato! Oh hey, I can embed the DBZA clip from the first article here.

I needed to get around to this and now I have. I'll add some strikethrough tags to my todo list. I forgot to add the javascript. Derp.

Found out how to bulk convert my images to WebP. Just a simple terminal command using ffmpeg. Yeah I know noone likes webp, but that's just for thumbnails in the gallery. The total filesize of my thumbnails is ~5mb, compared to ~72mb for the uncompressed images.

Namecheap's host seems to be pretty slow at downloading images for some reason, but the gallery should be a bit less painful to load now.

• Upload this to my host.
• Pick a colour that fits for clicked links. Default purple for now.
• Make some of the styling more consistent. Like the hyperlink in this article for example.
• Try to figure out why the items in my flex galleries aren't quite centered. See also.
• Maybe I should look into the JS for easier video embeds.
• Formatting/styling for video embeds.
• Style for lists.
• RSS feed? All the info I could find online was marketing crap about why you need one, rather than how to do it... Search engines, eh? What a load of bollocks nowadays.