SiTE UPDATE LOG

i didn't work much on the site because i wanted to work on myself this week. so, there is nothing of significance. although there was a tornado

another sunday, another site update. now that i think about it, why don't i just compile all these site updates into one page? actually, thats a good idea. this is what is new:

• what i just said
• you can now input your username on the last.fm now playing page
• uploaded just a little new art. go me!
• sections and blogs are no longer in the directory, but on their own page
• i just discovered border-box, and let's just say i've gone pro (this doesn't affect you)
• i made a userscript that replaces all the X "Post" buttons across the web with "Tweet" buttons. check it out

We swept under the rug, dusted the pottery, and squashed some bugs. For the best experience, make sure your app is always up to date.

• added the original version of my late 2023 site redesign to the website archive. my goal was to kind of keep the design how it was at the start for subpages, but that clearly hasn't happened.
• fixed a bug where the navbar just didn't work. like at all. i think it's fixed. i HOPE its fixed
• much better noscript support. indicators of pages that won't work will appear when no javascript is available, as well as lots of elements that don't work with javascript will just vanish. i still have some work to do, but the experience isn't too compromising yet
• added what the kids call a shrine, but in reality its just a wiki that has 3 pages and none of them are finished
• do you like how on the homepage links have an underline instead of a highlight? no? well too bad, im adding this to more pages. this definitely doesn't go against my philosophy of "don't update the design of old pages"

also, we hit 50 followers on neocities! that is cool i think, but followers dont matter. but hey, thanks anyways! to celebrate, this update log will be in a slight yellow

something happened, and i accidentally pushed the work in progress version of the site on thursday, instead of sunday. my bad. oh well, i guess you get a little sneak peak. anyways, here are the changes that i made:

• new graveyard for websites that no longer exist in the directory
• photography page is now a thing. im not happy with it, sorry.
• flood widget changed. instead of draining the flood, you fill it
• dude, i dont know

dshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

i am now experimenting with making updates live at the end of the week, instead of with every commit. timely content like blog posts will still be published when they happen, but things like new pages, layout updates, features, and whatever won't be updated until the end of the week.
anyways, this is what is new this week:

• button directory has new views; list, button, and large button. please use them. it took forever to add and was really boring.
• each top level page now has its gradient displayed in the favicon. i will add more pages to this later.
• clicking the home button while on the homepage now scrolls to the top of the page. fun.
• most pages should still slightly work, even if you have javascript disabled. how long i will continue to provide support for people living in 1996, i dunno!

also, i hit 50,000 hits! woohoo! i am so thankful that there are people online who are willing to look at my goofy website. so, i would just like to say, thank you

alarma: i have changed the button for this site again. i'm really proud of this new button, i think it looks a lot better, is more updated (new domain), and conveys much more personality. now my little dude is doing more than just standing there, he's got a cool saw.
overall, im happy with the result, especially after 9 hours of work, but if you're not, you can still visit the buttons page and download the old one.

awesome news! this site just reached 100 commits! that doesn't really mean anything specifically, because the size of a commit can vary, but it's still cool!
anyways, i have made some new improvements. pages now have a cool parallax effect when you scroll, as well as the background color of some pages changes as you scroll. the parallax effect is also disabled when you enable reduced motion, so that's awesome. here are a couple other changes i made:

• list and grid view for blog
• working on better theming
• breadcrumb navbar in music pages
• better code stability
• extremely small optimizations
• more organized archive with more content and better theming

anyways, i don't have too much else to say. site updates may slow down for the next week and a half because i may end up on vacation, but we will have to see...

hi everyone. quick update this time. i made a little gizmo. last.fm has this now playing view that gets the job done, but i thought i could do better. so i made my own version that you can check out here. it's still under construction, but im happy with how its coming along so far.

I have given the website directory a huge update. Not only is there now a ton more links, but there are also work in progress pages for browsers and iOS apps (include sideloaded ones). I am working on expanding the page slowly but surely, but so far I'm proud of how it's came along.
As an experimental way of featuring sites, I have also launched "Site of the fiscal period", which is actually just updated whenever I feel like it. It's just a way for me to feature sites that I think you should check out. I don't know how this will go along with buttons and favicons on the homepage, but I don't think about anything.
So, anyways, I'm just working on adding more and more stuff. I think next I will work on adding doodles and stuff to the art page, I don't know yet. I might also start committing less, but still updating the site alot.
That is all I have to say for now. Remember to complete your daily Wordle.

Sorry about the title, that rhyme was too good not to include.
Version control using Git on my site is now working. This shouldn't mean anything to you, the viewer, but it means a lot to me. This is what I had to do before in order to update my site:

• Update each page
• Remember what pages I updated
• Navigate to each folder in Neocities, click upload, find the same folder on my hard drive
• Copy and paste the changes for each page into Neocities

Now, this is all I need to do:

• Update each page
• Click commit (basically publish)

So yeah, I am very excited about this, especially after all of the trial and error that I went through to get to this point.
This will also allow me to use packages, which could make my site better. I tried using eleventy, but I had too many pages to remake, and I didn't want to go through the hassle of remaking all of them.