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<br><br><br>- personal book log -<br><br><br>
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<i>~ Braindead Microphone Essays - George Saunders ~</i><br>
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<i>read in fall 2022</i><br>
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this book is a collection of George Saunders' articles that were published to various magazines throughout the last few decades. i found it to be incredibly entertaining, i've never read any of his work before but i thoroughly enjoyed his various voices and perspectives throughout the collection. a good amount of it is satire, and he's quite critical of US politics, but the 'essays' always end up being optimistic and he shows that regardless of political beliefs, we're all the same. the 'essays' in the collection range quite a bit in their contents, which kept it fresh. going from 'woof: a plea of sorts' (a letter from a dog to its owner asking them to stop getting drunk and dancing nude in the kitchen) to 'the great divider' (a series of interviews/experiences with various characters on the US-Mexico border, from impovershed immigrants to the leader of the Minutemen) was quite the rollercoaster and kept me gripped. at some points this book was laughably comedic and others quite insightful and thought-provoking, which to me means it was a good book.
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<i>~ East of Eden - John Steinbeck ~</i><br>
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<i>read in winter 2021</i><br>
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i would consider this to be my favorite book now. Steinbeck considers East of Eden to be his magnum opus, and i would have to agree with him. this book is truly phenomenal, and i found myself completely absorbed in the story every time i sat down to read it. the only other book i've read that can compete against the vast network of characters East of Eden contains is Imajica by Clive Barker (i read Imajica back in the winter of 2020 during a period when i was not logging, and i highly recommend you investigate it. it's been too long for me to write a full review, but it would sit with East of Eden in my top 5 books i've read). the unraveling of the story in this book just continued to shock me, and the relationships between the characters that are uncovered repeatedly stunned me. Sam Hamilton is one of my favorite characters ever, and i find myself thinking about him even though it's been months since i read this book. this was definitely a step above Grapes of Wrath in almost every way, and i'm very very happy i read it. interestingly enough, East of Eden is actually a retelling of the Book of Genesis too, which was fascinating to reflect upon.
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one of my favorite books of all time
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<i>~ My Ishmael - Daniel Quinn ~</i><br>
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<i>read august 2020</i><br>
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this book was not as groundbreaking or eye-opening for me as the first Ishmael, but i have a hunch that if i had skipped Ishmael and just read this one i would've had a similar epiphany. this book laid out ideas in a simpler and less radical format, and i would recommend this book first to someone who would have a difficult time accepting some of the bigger ideas in the first book. i preferred the narrarator in this book in comparison to the first book, and it included a nice amount of closure regarding the ending of the first book. the ideas in these books are extremely refreshing, and i feel like a conversation with the author would be infinitely intriguing. i now have my sights on The Story of B, which is the last book out of the three, and it looks like it's Quinn's magnum opus. i don't really have much to say about these books because i really do think that you should just read them, and recommend them to everyone you know. i feel as though i'd need to read them each three times before i'd feel confident reciting or explaining the concepts while being able to defend their integrity.
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absolutely recommended
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<i>~ Ishmael - Daniel Quinn ~</i><br>
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<i>read july 2020</i><br>
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by far the most thought-provoking and perspective-changing book i've read, period. im not going to say much about this book, but the one thing that you should take away from this entry is: read this book. i don't care about your age, nationality, political stance, or anything. it brought a new awareness into my daily life, and has me really questioning what we as a society should be doing differently. the actual plot of the book goes like this: an ex-dreamer finds an ad in the paper looking for people who genuinely want to change the world. considering the main character was essentially a retired hippy, he feels obligated to go because his seventeen year-old self would have without second thought. turns out the ad was written by a gorilla. a gorilla that teaches the main character how to think about mankind from an outside perspective through telepathy. sounds ridiculous, i know. all i need to say is that the book is a fairly easy and straight-forward read at face value, but look deeper and you'll find philosophy, profound observations about the past, and what we can learn as a species from the world around us.
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<i>~ Stargirl - Jerry Spinelli ~</i><br>
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<i>read july 2020</i><br>
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the first time i read this book was back in fourth grade for english class. it had left quite a positive imprint in my brain, and i found myself thinking about it on occasion so i decided to revist. fortunately it was just about as good as i remember. for context it's a young adult book, and i finished it in two sittings. Disney has gone ahead to make a movie rendition, and from what i can see in the trailers, it's hot garbage. in summary: manic pixie girl joins the public school system, acts strange in comparison to your typical cookie-cutter highschooler. main character falls in love with her, becomes embarrassed around peers due to her spunky behavior, attempts to change her, and ends up losing her. it was funny reading the comments under the trailer, everyone's asking, "so, this is basically 'im not like other girls…' the movie?". while i can't speak on the movie, i can assure that the book contains more depth than that. it's more like, "be yourself and hold onto your child-like curiosity" the book. the book explores identity and social pressure to conform, overall it's quite heartwarming and is a nice reminder to be unforgivably yourself.
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<i>~ The Jungle - Upton Sinclair ~</i><br>
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<i>read in july 2020</i><br>
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i thought this book was pretty good, especially for the time that it was written in and what it managed to do for our country. imagery was certainly its greatest strength. i read the non-censored first edition, and it had a list of every edit made to the other published versions. interesting stuff. Jurgis is one tough nut, to say his life was a horrific tragedy would be an understatement. the visual descriptions of his working conditions were my favorite part, i had very little difficulty feeling as though i were physically walking around inspecting the factories. this story was actually written as a commission for a socialist newspaper called 'The Appeal to Reason', and it became pretty obvious by the end. i started to lose interest when consecutive pages were dedicated to explaining how the socialist party operates and polling number discussions. a significant portion of the ending is full of party meetings and public speeches, but i really enjoyed it up to that point. i ended up drawing a few parallels to modern life which was concerning, and it was a humbling experience overall.
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<i>~ Rage - Richard Bachman (Steven King) ~</i><br>
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<i>read june 2020</i><br>
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absolutely fascinating. this book is banned, King himself pulled it from the shelves after Columbine in the hopes that it would prevent future shootings. supposedly, a school shooter (unrelated to Columbine) had a copy of this book in their locker, and that was when he pulled the plug. the story is straightforward: Charlie takes his algebra class hostage. he had an abusive upbringing, hated his father, found no solace in anyone else in his life, and is eventually driven to activating the fire alarm so he can take his classroom hostage. inside the classroom, Charlie explains his life and the events that brought them up to the present situation (it should be noted that not a single student is killed). it's extremely difficult to put the atmosphere of the room and his interactions with other students into words. i'll say that if you haven't read the book, or were a character in the story that watched the events unfold from outside the classroom, it's extremely hard to understand. unfortunatley, i feel as though banning the story ultimately does nothing helpful. the story of Charlie's upbringing and the interactions that he has throughout the book were exceptionally well written. the scary part is that by the end, it's easy to feel sympathetic for Charlie and the acts of violence feel diluted. he suffered from such a pitiful life that it's clear to see that every negative experience was bottled up until he acted out. ironically, in an effort to show how much he hates his father, he almost becomes him. the dialogue was really what caught my attention, and the verbal struggle for power against the principal and police was probably my favorite part. i do not condone his behavior in any way, and i also don't think that reading this book will immediately turn someone into a school shooter. this topic is extremely sensitive and it's difficult to write about, but if you have a dark sense of humor and can stomach disturbing stories, find a digital copy. i enjoyed this story thoroughly and could talk about it for much longer, but im going to try to keep these entries shorter.
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<i>~ Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck ~</i><br>
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<i>read in may 2020</i><br>
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i would consider this to be my first dip into 'classic american literature', and i was pleasantly surprised to say the least. this book in particular had been on my radar since i was a child, simply because i knew it involved the dustbowl. other than that, i had zero knowledge on the story until i picked it up for the first time. back in fifth grade, i had picked up 'Out of Dust' from my teacher's shelves and read about a quarter of it. i remember very little, bits about a barn burning down, and in general the feeling of suffering and misery in every line. the dust bowl has always been a fascination of mine, so i was very mildly disappointed when i realized that the dust itself was not primary the focus of the book. regardless, i was gripped and invested immediately. this book gave me an alternate perspective on what it was like to live during the early nineteen-hundreds, especially if you weren't a flapper or a great gatsby. this book is certainly a slow burner, however i personally didn't find the dragging to be a bad thing. the pace of the book reflects the pacing of of the Joad's life, and was perfectly appropriate. i also found the shifting in perspective every other chapter to be my favorite part of the book. the birds-eye view of the country's condition, and then the zoomed in, visceral retelling of the Joad's personal experience was amazingly well done.
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<i>~ Of Mice And Men - John Steinbeck ~</i><br>
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<i>read march 2020</i><br>
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quite a wonderful little story, this was my first time reading steinbeck and i fell in love with his style of writing. the characters were quite interesting, the tension between them kept me enticed. i enjoyed slim in particular. the ending wrapped it all up in a pretty little package, and overall i was very pleased. pleased enough to read Grapes of Wrath next.
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<i>~ Brave New World - Aldous Huxley ~</i><br>
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<i>read in march 2020</i><br>
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having already read 1984 and Farenheit 451, this was a breath of fresh air with its alternative take on the dystopian-future genre. i enjoyed the scientific mumbo-jumbo describing how to grow and condition humans, and the contrast of savage vs civilized living was especially intriguing. the focus on how the totalitarian government rose to power and how it works so well is what separates this book from the others in the genre. the ending was predictable and honestly disappointed me, however i have to acknowledge that there weren't many other realistic ending options. i suppose another perspective is that a predictable ending indicates good storytelling and worldbuilding, the characters acted as they would contextually in their situation.
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<i>~ Love Story - Erich Segal ~</i><br>
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<i>read in fall 2019</i><br>
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super quick read. short, sweet, and absolutely worth the 45 min it took to finish front to back. oddly enough, i think this book subconsciously convinced me to stay in my shitty relationship in the hopes it'd get better (it didn't). beyond my own personal anecdote, this story captured my attention immediately and was difficult to put down. good characters, has a sense of humor, great pacing, and while i cannot remember details of the plot, it managed to leave a deeply positive imprint in my brain.
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<i>~ The Last American Man - Elizabeth Gilbert ~</i><br>
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<i>read in fall 2019</i></h5><br>
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the first book i read since i started keeping track, and the first i read in college. a thank you to my mother for giving it to me - i enjoyed it thoroughly and it helped me remain mindful during my freshman year. going to school in a large city after living in a rural town was very exciting, but this book kept me grounded from the get-go. in summary: a man lives a hunter-gatherer lifestyle in the 21st century and travels the country educating people about his lifestyle. in the meantime, he's building a land-preserve where he'll go on to host camps, and breaks the world record for traveling across the US on horseback.
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rando tips i have compiled from my research:<br>
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- dont use too much glue, just enough to spread across surface of veneer<br>
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- use an extra piece of veneer wrapped in packaging tape as a squeegee to apply glue evenly<br>
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- use a very light coat of gorilla glue on only the top side of the first 4 pieces of veneer<br>
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- leave the deck in the mold for 24 hours<br>
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- drill the holes before you remove the deck from the mold<br>
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- leave it in the sun or a lamp after you take it out to make it stronger<br>
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- trace a deck on paper and cut it out to make a simple and easy template for shaping in the future<br>
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- when sanding use some sort of electric sander or a dremel. makes it easier and better<br>
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- if hand sanding dont press the board too hard<br>
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- when drilling try drilling really slow for nice holes that are not torn up<br>
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- take care when doing king pin holes, try make them as neat as posible<br>
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- when doing a burn/engrave/print/etc. graphic (not sticker), do it before you mold it<br>
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- laquer, wait to dry fully, and sand 4 times- then laquer once more<br><br><br>
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good links:<br>
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<a href="https://www.dynamicfb.com/">high tier trucks/wheels</a><br>
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<a href="https://www.dkfingerboards.com/">excellent entry-level completes</a><br>
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<a href="https://roswellsskateboards.com/product-category/fingerboards/truck-and-wheel-set/">affordable, good quality truck/wheel combo deal</a><br>
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<a href="https://www.goodeveningconcrete.com/">cool 'crete obstacles</a><br>
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<a href="https://www.goodroadscollective.com/">really good, cheap 3D printable fingerboard molds (plus extra cool stuff)</a><br><br><br>
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-single bearing width: 1.5 x 4 x 2mm<br>
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- my collection of logs -<br><br><br>
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<a href="weblog.html">~web development log</a><br>
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<b><i>~ january 6, 2023</i></b><br>
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it's a new year! after a lovely break back home full of visiting friends, skating, and
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skiing, it's time to get back to business before the semester starts. i've been working
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i've done a lot of updating, both on the front and back-ends of the website, and i'm
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very pleased with how it's coming! here are the new additions:<br><br>
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- a comfy landing page that greets you upon arrival<br>
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- a gallery of my fingerboard creations<br>
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- a simple guide containing tips on how to make your own fingerboard<br>
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- a switchable light/dark mode theme<br>
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- a new cursor that looks like a skateboard<br>
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- and a few tasteful animations that make the site feel a little bit more alive<br>
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i am very happy with the state of things now. so much so, that i think it might be
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appropriate for me to relaunch this site. i'm unsure of which platform i'm gonna use.
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i've recently discovered <a href="https://www.neocities.org">neocities</a>, and it looks like
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a cool solution. not really what i want though- i'd prefer to have my own, private setup.
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as far as hosting goes, i'm not sure what i'm going to do. i also need to look at
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<b><i>~ december 15, 2022</i></b><br>
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wow! it's been a while since i have been able to work on this bad boy. i got completely
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absorbed into the 9-5 life as i was working at my co-op. it was a great time, i learned
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a lot about writing software, and i'm happy it went so well. now that i have my free
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time back, i have decided to completely renovate this place. i have actually been working
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for probably a week or so without doing any logging- just little pieces here and there
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to get it to where it is now. my domain subscription ran out while i was working too
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<span class="blink1"><rip</span> <span class="blink2">trali</span><span class="blink3">.blue></span> :(<br>
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i stopped paying for hosting, and one of my new focuses is to get this baby running
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for free.<br><br>
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basically, i have stripped the styling away and adopted a far simpler layout. here's what
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and this is what i've stripped it to:<br><br>
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<a href="../../bin/site archive/stripped.png" target="_blank"> <img src="../../bin/site archive/stripped.png" width="50%" style="border-width:.01em; border-color: #262626; border-style: solid;"/> </a><br><br>
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we'll see where this goes! ultimately though, i just wanted to have something that was
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easier to manage. i found myself getting tangled up in the css due to poor implementation
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choices and felt like i was spending way too much time on trying to style the webiste to match
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the way my domain name, trali.blue, sounded. i would rather spend my time focusing on actually
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building the website out, which is why i'm almost relieved that my domain subscription expired.
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now, it feels like there's some room to breathe and i can start from scratch again!
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<b><i>~ june 30th, 2022</i></b><br>
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okay so it's been a bit since i've logged, and i've been working on the site a lil but
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really not that much over the course of the past month or so. school has picked back
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up, but i accepted a position for my final co-op and i am super relieved! i've recently
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plant log will be a place where i keep a gallery and notes of my garden and i hope to add
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a section for my indoor plants too. i suppose that's all that's really changed since the
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last log.
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<br><br><br>
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<b><i>~ june 30th, 2022</i></b><br>
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today was a day of maintenance and growth! i have expanded the journal to include
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an old book log that i would like to breathe some life into. there are some missing
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titles in there in-between East of Eden and My Ishmael, but to be honest i can't be
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bothered to go back and populate it. i added the East of Eden entry today just because
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it was such a profound book to me that i felt as though it deserved a spot in the log.
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i've also tweaked the animation that draws around the navigation links. next, i'd like
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to add a border like is under the navigation links around the left and right of `main`.
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i haven't tested it out yet but i have a feeling it will look quite nice.
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<br><br><br>
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<b><i>~ june 16th, 2022</i></b><br>
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the past few days have been quite productive and i am quite happy! i began to look into
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whether customizing the styling of the auto-index feature is possible, and it indeed is,
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but it looked like a can of worms i'm not quite ready to get into yet. it required the
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installation of a module for nginx, but even just installing a module appeared to be quite
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an involved task. it looked like the module was maybe only avaiable for nginx-plus? i'm
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not sure, but i do know that when i attempted to install the module through the package
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manager it was never able to find it, and when i tried reinstalling nginx with the --include
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tag, it also told me it didn't know what i meant. so, i decided to move on and work on the
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general aesthetic of the website. i think this marks the 4th complete visual overhaul of
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this website, and it's still mostly just a wasteland.
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<br><br>
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<a href="../../bin/site archive/oldestSite.png" target="_blank" > <img src="../../bin/site archive/oldestSite.png" width="100%" /> </a>
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<i>the previous b/w aesthetic of the site</i><br><br>
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that being said, i did log in to my old account on futureland.tv and found an old book log
|
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i was keeping a few years back. i think i'm going to expand the journal part of trali.blue
|
||||
by adding categories and keep the development log separate from other logs that i would
|
||||
like to keep. this project has been a blast, and interestingly enough i've been working on
|
||||
it more frequently now that i'm in classes again... strange how i manage to find the time
|
||||
to work on this rather than homework, but i'm not complaining.
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<br><br><br>
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|
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<b><i>~ june 14th, 2022</i></b><br>
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great progress today. i did some research on nginx and discovered that nginx has a handy
|
||||
'auto index' feature which happens to be exactly what i have been looking for!!!! i was
|
||||
looking for an easy way to simply display a directory without needing to format the html
|
||||
or do any configuration of a database, and this does exactly that. now, what used to be
|
||||
my 'files' page is my 'basket'. in its current form it will just be a simple interface to
|
||||
access any files that i would like to get later, or send to friends. i'm very excited,
|
||||
this is the first step to distancing myself from 3rd-party file-hosting platforms!
|
||||
<br><br><br>
|
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|
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|
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<b><i>~ june 4th, 2022</i></b><br>
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first entry! this will be a log of how things are going with the website.
|
||||
even though i've been working on getting it set up slowly for the past few months,
|
||||
it's finally in a position where i feel like marking progress is worth the effort.
|
||||
it's mostly been learning how to navigate this vultr server i've rented and installing
|
||||
NGINX onto it, configuring all of that business, etc. not super interesting tbh.
|
||||
now that i've been able to get it online for real and have a few pages thrown together,
|
||||
i can start looking at transforminging it into the website that i want to have. today, i have very
|
||||
little homework so i'm taking a bit of time to experiment with hosting files on the site.
|
||||
i just want some sort of a easy-to-access directory that just holds some files, like code from my
|
||||
last programming languages lab, and allows for an easy download.
|
||||
eventually, i'm really going to need to get my formatting for this site figured out..
|
||||
<br><br>
|
||||
<i>~ later, that evening...</i><br><br>
|
||||
okay, so that was way easier than i thought.. i had no idea i could simply link
|
||||
to a local file with an <a> tag to make it to be downloadable.
|
||||
very simple and very fast success! still doesn't help me necessarily make an easy-to-populate
|
||||
directory though for file hosting...
|
||||
<br><br><br><br><br>
|
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<b><i>~ project spawn: nov 2021 ~</i></b><br><br><br><br>
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