18 Jul 2026 -
you may take notice of the CSS looking way better. this is because as i (rightly) put in the commit message:
the good thing about CSS is that half the time you don’t have to write it since half the time someone else has already done it. The bad thing about CSS is literally everything else. Credit to cobra (cobra.vern.cc) for most of the stylesheet.
anyways…
i wanted to yap a little more about how this site works. basically, i lazily through together a small script called poststarter, which i intend to work on, and constantly make better :) for now all it does is automate the (annoying) process of processing blog posts on jekyll, by automatically setting the date, post title, and liquid formatting to ensure i dont have to copy paste that boilerplate every time. this is very handy as the main thing that made me so inconsistent with my blogs earlier was the laziness of actually making it, since id have to copy paste the bullshit every time i wanted a new post. now i just jump in an interactive prompt and get writing :D i need to add an option for the subtitle, and automatic lowercasing to it, but other than that, it’s mostly a done thing!! don’t need to do any extra work other than where i see fit which is awesome :P
another (smaller) element is my choice of editor. vs code is really, REALLY noisy since i tend to have several tabs open at once. this works well enough when editing code since i tend to work on several things at once, but when blogging it’s distracting as fuck. vim is way less noisy, and i know the basics of it well enough to use it, so that’s my new editor as well. i’ll be keeping my head in the terminal for the most part now yayayayayyyyyyyy
you may be wondering whats the hell aspect of this considering the title. well THAT would be the fact that poststarter is a bash script. now, shell scripting is the best tool for the job when it comes to stringing commands together, which is well, exactly what poststarter does. that gets REALLY REALLY fucking jarring though when i’m tryna modify it since i have little knowledge of shell, and don’t intend to dangle on it too much since i absolutely hate working on it. in my eyes it’s a miserable experience only beat by powershell (which is kind of a shell script?) and cascading shit sheets. this’ll might piss off a few unix developers, to which i say sorry!!! :< i just don’t vibe with shell scripts ngl. which becomes incredibly irritating when adding new features to poststarter since even if i COULD be arsed to move it to python (i cant), itd just be more effort than it’s worth because shell scripts are both the easiest and best way to string commands together, so yeh.
anyways, ill add in the about and contacts page another time. how’s your evening??