SiTE UPDATE LOG

there is not much really new this week either. in fact, there's actually less as i removed useless pages (because they already exist somewhere else on the site).
with that said, don't think i have abandoned this site except for writing articles. im still working on that really big project i was talking about last week. however, it is a big project, so you have to actually give me time.
okay bye!

there really isn't too much new this week. however, there is one thing.
i tried adopting for the first time, so now there is a little kitty on the homepage. yeah. it just sits here right now, but i might do more. you can pet it by hovering over it. am i doing adoption correctly?
anyways, if you think this was underwhelming, please know that i have a much longer project happening in the background, however it has taken longer than a week to make.

i think that there are a few new things that i made this time around. i don't know.

• the favicon for the #100DaysToOffload pages now changes color depending on the color of the page
• i also marked out some of my favorite posts in the blog page

also, behind the scenes i learned how to use git to merge without opening a pull request on github. that has been really helpful honestly.

there aren't many visible changes this week, but there are a ton of changes behind the scenes.
the #100DaysToUnload blog, as well as some other pages, now use 11ty. there is a blog post about this if you're interested. this doesn't mean anything to you, but it means a lot to me, as it means the site will be a lot easier to maintain. it also means that i am becoming the person i swore i would never become, but now i've realized i've just been arrogant about html.
halfway through the week i accidentally pushed a full update early. sorry about that if things broke.

happy halloween! i have a halloween theme now, which i am kinda proud of. however, i did more than just that:

• the controls on the last.fm now playing screen now autohide
• the favicon should support retina screens or ones that use scaling. i don't use one of those, so i don't know!
• you may of noticed i have been writing a bunch of blog posts for #100DaysToUnload. that has been fun

yep, you read the title! there is another minor update to the navigation bar! but this time its one i have been wanting to make for quite some time, so its actually fine

• the colors of the links on the navbar now correspond more to the color of the page. i hope this makes more people realize that they are colored to be a blue to red gradient
• javascript-free navbar now works again, as well as the navbar on some deep pages that have custom navbars. at least, i think it works
• due to weird things related to metadata tagging, the scrobble count for EPs in the album library would sometimes be lower than the actual count. worry not, as now there is a check for separate metadata tagging, and it will automatically switch to the tagging version with more scrobbles
• RSS feed for site updates, and started updating the one for blog posts again. who knows how long until i forget!
• new section for online fiction on the reading page, and yes it looks out of place

just as a cool little experiemnt, i wanna try listing all of the changes i can think of, just because:

i made a library of all the music that i digitally own. how cool is that? you can check it out here.
this is quite innovative for me because this actually uses json files to load the metadata for each album, making it less of a pain in the butt to manage. cool!

welcome... to the FUTURE!

• the little icons in the navigation bar now use the colors of the pages they represent, instead of them all being red and blue
• all the top level pages now have cool headers
• i updated some of the character doodles from around the site
• gabeishere is now here in the credits page. yeah, that joke was too good not to make

one of my college classes has us use macs. as a fun little experiment, i opened my website in safari and let me tell you, it does NOT render correctly. and guess what? i am NOT fixing it . its no because i dont want to, its because i kinda cant as my macos vm is really slow. and im not spending $300 dollars on a mac mini off ebay. if you're going to use the default browser, at LEASE use chrome (ok, fine, i admit i do like safari )

not too much is new this week. after all, i did start college, so i have been more focused on that. however, if you would like to see a secret work in progress project, check out the dream journal. don't hate if some things are broken, it IS a work in progress.

there's a new, really long blog posts titled "state of my site" where i basically just rant for 2,000 words.
We also made some general improvements and fixed some bugs to ensure your app is running smoothly.

now you will notice that the navigation bar is on the bottom, and it has some brand new wacky effects. and that's all that changed... that you can notice.
i am working on adding a bunch of accessibility features to the site. for example, if you enable increased contrast, some of the text will turn white. i am also working on adding a skip to content button. things are still a major work in progress, but behind the scenes they are going.
i guess another thing is that i updated the buttons on the homepage. if i removed yours, no hard feelings! i just want to keep them fresh, i still love you! in fact, i put the buttons of all my followers into the credits page.
finally, new fonts, yay! i don't know if i will keep on using ubuntu as the body font, but it's the only one that looked good with cleartype disabled.

as you may notice, the look of thr website is kinda a mess of different jumpbled corner designs. this is because i am working on making a new design. please, pardon my dust.
anyway, there is still more than that:

• new page where i talk about the meaning behind some sites on neocities that don't have much context to them
• im working on making a video downloader using the cobalt api. i will probably be the only person who finds use from it
• rounded corners and slanted corners are starting to appear all throughout the site

do you like the name of this update? i named it that because that is the time as of me writing the title.

• wrote a new article for the first time in forever. tyhats a song from frozen i think
• a little update for the website graveyard
• since im approaching visitor #100,000, i had to adjust the look of the visitor count widget because it would not fit 6 digits

is it normal to vomit string

If the Earth gets hit by an asteroid, it's game over. It's control-alt-delete for civilization.
anyways, now each of the top level pages have a footer, because why not. the buttons page also has an all buttons page, in case you would like to see all of the buttons in a list. not much else really, haha.

another week, another update. i have been coughing a lot, and every day for like 2 weeks now it feels like it gets worse. oh well.

• the buttons page has gotten a redesign. now its harder to use, especially for tech illerate people. but it looks cool
• there is also stuff related to artfight scattered around the website, because thats coming up

whatever happened to bouncy balls

hi everyone. i was on vacation so i once again did not get much done, but there is still some fun stuff.

• there is a really janky minimap on the sitemap page. i don't know if you can see the whole thing on desktop.
• new button collection for showing off what social networking services you have been suspended from. currently i only have instagram and twitter, but you can add a lot of customization to the twitter button, so thats cool.

not every update really needs a changelog written for it, but for the sake of consistency all across the board, i will write one anyways, just for you

• there is a new list on the list page
• the hell page is no longer called hell. it also has a new design which is supposed to look like raw html while still following the layout scheme i use throughout the rest of the website
• any death grips cover arts are now automatically censored on the index page's now playing widget. yeah

honestly, sorry about not having as many updates recently. graduating and working is annoying. plus, i have to go on vacation to north michigan tomorrow. what am i even going to do there? hunt?
but in all seriousness, thank you guys for continuing to look at this project that i call my own .

gardening leave is over. i actually did stuff this week.

• there is a new page for lists. check it out
• actually i think thats the only change

did a little more, but still not much.

• when you download a button from the buttons i made page, the logo now does a cool downloading animation
• directory is better adapted for mobile devices

actual updates should probably return next week

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

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

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...

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.