Simon O'Shea
172 lines
9.1 KiB
HTML
172 lines
9.1 KiB
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
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<html>
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<head>
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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../style.css"/>
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<style>
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b { font-size: 1.5em; }
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</style>
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</head>
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<title>LOGS</title>
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<body>
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<div class="bar">
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<a href="../index.html" class="nav">HOME</a>
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<a href="logs.html" class="nav">back</a>
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</div>
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<div class="main" style="width: 33%; margin-left: 33%; margin-right: 33%;">
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<p>
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<br><br><br><b>- webmaster's log -</b><br><br><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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on setting myself up for grad school, finding a new apartment, and most importantly,
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updating my website 8)<br><br>
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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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<p style="text-align: left;">
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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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</p><p><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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available domain names to see which good ones there are to choose from.
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<br><br><br>
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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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i was previously rocking:<br><br>
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<a href="../../bin/site archive/home.png" target="_blank"> <img src="../../bin/site archive/home.png" width="50%" /> </a>
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<a href="../../bin/site archive/about.png" target="_blank"> <img src="../../bin/site archive/about.png" width="50%" /> </a>
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<a href="../../bin/site archive/home.png" target="_blank"> <img src="../../bin/site archive/home.png" width="50%" /> </a><br><br>
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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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<br><br><br>
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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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changed how some of the borders look on the nav bar, and i've added a whole new log! the
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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
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by adding categories and keep the development log separate from other logs that i would
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like to keep. this project has been a blast, and interestingly enough i've been working on
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it more frequently now that i'm in classes again... strange how i manage to find the time
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to work on this rather than homework, but i'm not complaining.
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<br><br><br>
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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
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'auto index' feature which happens to be exactly what i have been looking for!!!! i was
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looking for an easy way to simply display a directory without needing to format the html
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or do any configuration of a database, and this does exactly that. now, what used to be
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my 'files' page is my 'basket'. in its current form it will just be a simple interface to
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access any files that i would like to get later, or send to friends. i'm very excited,
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this is the first step to distancing myself from 3rd-party file-hosting platforms!
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<br><br><br>
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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.
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even though i've been working on getting it set up slowly for the past few months,
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it's finally in a position where i feel like marking progress is worth the effort.
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it's mostly been learning how to navigate this vultr server i've rented and installing
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NGINX onto it, configuring all of that business, etc. not super interesting tbh.
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now that i've been able to get it online for real and have a few pages thrown together,
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i can start looking at transforminging it into the website that i want to have. today, i have very
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little homework so i'm taking a bit of time to experiment with hosting files on the site.
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i just want some sort of a easy-to-access directory that just holds some files, like code from my
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last programming languages lab, and allows for an easy download.
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eventually, i'm really going to need to get my formatting for this site figured out..
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<br><br>
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<i>~ later, that evening...</i><br><br>
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okay, so that was way easier than i thought.. i had no idea i could simply link
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to a local file with an <a> tag to make it to be downloadable.
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very simple and very fast success! still doesn't help me necessarily make an easy-to-populate
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directory though for file hosting...
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<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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<a href="./weblog.html">top</a><br><br><br>
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