I’ve returned from the depths of The Fediverse with a reaction hover short code. The RSS version of this post should replace that reaction with a gif image link.

I’ll play around with this stolen idea for a bit. Audio reactions might also be another idea worth exploring.

I finally “get” why most social media web designs use a narrow 2/3 base column layout. There’s a lot of practicality involved. For example, it’s easier to control media delivery and responsiveness with narrower dimensions.

I’m not too fond of narrow holy grail layouts. If time allows, I’ll add options for swapping between a few “cool” base layouts.

I really need to suss out an offline mode for this thing once I find the time. There’s an isp or power company outage every 2~3 days or so. That’s a normal thing in The Bahamas btw.

If you’re curious as to why I’m mostly just pulling Bing Images, well… it’s one of the more broken feeds. The feed from web.dev is a good reference too, but Bing guarantees one image a day. This allows slowly coming to terms with my poorly written and inefficient templates.

Ave Maria refactor and rewrite. I’ve added some cute icons to the article metadata in the process.

I’m just about almost done rewriting the CSS of my main blog just the way I like it. Bulma was a good CSS framework. Fun times…

Looks like it’s time to rewrite the CSS of my main website for fast iteration and decoupling Hugo from PHP. I’ll still allow the generated files to move passively through the OPcache in case there’s a need for dynamicity. Hugo has pretty much deprecated all of my PHP hacks.

The dictionary and thesaurus are among my most used tools. They’re easy to install and use offline on any device — no search engine required. I just also realized that my most used offline tools are not in my blog post about programming without the Internet…

Why blog? One key reason is for framing offline and organic discussions — they’re the best. Online discussions tend to devolve into “peanut gallery” takes for any range of topics. You can’t know it all, but being in the gallery is fun?

Hmm, this theme now coerces hugo into generating/bootstrapping authors from the site configuration file. The test result? @nobody. It might be an interesting pattern. Data mounting operates a bit strangely underneath the hood though, this issue (~2yrs) might be one to watch, but not too sure.