I mentioned the other day I was looking at a flat-file, low-overhead PHP blogging platform called HTMLy as a way to automate a bunch of shit for this journal. We're on it, baby. Lemme explain in slightly less hurried, delirious detail why I've chosen to do so. So before now, all journal posts were written as raw HTML directly into Notepad++. No AutoSite, no automation at all, just what I wrote is what you see. That worked fine, but it became a gradually bigger pain in the ass month after month. Read more
Welcome to a weird future! RetroZilla didn't know how to handle the admin panel, but Firefox ESR 52.9.0 on XP can do it just fine. This makes it a fairly viable solution for blogging on XP and Vista, and possibly even 2000. Writing themes, as far as I can tell, is as simple as WordPress; there's a PHP "loop" for post formatting, and I think you can do custom HTML per post type (which there's basically every post type that Tumblr has, which is nostalgic). I suppose this would've been really good Read more
Another thing I was pondering in Wales is, well, scarier. I was talking to Caby's dad, who's a writer, about stories with bad magical systems and coming up with them for Calelira and Pinede, and in trying to pull up one of my old Chronicles of Calelira entries, I discovered that none of the series is on archives! In fact, very little of my old stories or writing material is on archives. That's on purpose. I've on-and-off hid my old (2018-2020 or so) stories over the years due to the sheer Read more
One thing I was mulling over while I was in Wales was alternatives to WordPress for this journal. Typing raw HTML is liberating, but man, it gives me a good excuse to put off updating this thing. "Cameron, you already had the Scratchpad and you gave that up because it was too much work. Why are you going back to blogging software?" Well, pointed question asker, I like to fiddle with shit is why. But really, part of the reason I gave up the Scratchpad was also the reason proper alternatives have Read more
I return home. The trip was, and I don't say this lightly, life-changing. Genuinely phenomenal stuff. Wales was so nice, her family was so nice, the guinea pigs were adorably moody, the museums were nice, wandering Cardiff was a ton of fun, we're even better in person than we could've imagined—my god, I can fill paragraphs with how good it was. Literally before it was over we were checking flight prices for January so we can spend our next anniversary together too (and I can enjoy some Welsh Read more
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