I may add some images to this later, but for now I wanna get it off my drafts doc. Tired of looking at it.
On several occasions during my brief stint with Gnome, I went to look up how to accomplish some seemingly basic task only to find threads going back six years saying things like “Gnome really needs a way to adjust touchpad scroll speed!” followed by threads from every subsequent year asking “How is there still no way to adjust touchpad scroll speed?
Man, I love a concept album.
Warp Riders was probably my album of the year in - I don’t know - 2018? It’s good!
The Sword’s particular mythical metal style from their prior albums is on full display here, though you can hear hints of their future turn to more bluesy Appalachian rock blowing in on the wind.
With the album art calling back to AD&D book covers (and maybe a touch of Roger Dean), there’s just enough world hinted at in this album to really fascinate me.
Recommended BGM: Shape Memory Alloys Inspiration struck me the other day and I created a mockup of what I think I want this site to look like eventually. That’ll be the subject of a later post, but for now I’ve got a lot of learning to do if I ever want to reach that goal.
That led to me doing a bit of poking around for a good tutorial on how to make Hugo themes, and I ended up spending maybe an hour today following this tutorial on how to make a Hugo theme from scratch by Keith Peters.
So I went to update the site the other day and Neocities threw a “file name too long” error on one of the CSS files generated by my Hugo theme. Had something to do with the CSS being digitally signed. I was annoyed, because I really didn’t think it seemed necessary, but Justin reminded me it was probably to prevent cross-site CSS injection attacks, so fair game.
Anyway, after fumbling around inside the theme directory for an hour and a half trying to figure out how to influence that output in any way, I gave up and posted an issue on the theme’s Github page.
Game (Year) Metal Storm (1990) Platform NES Developer Tamtex Publisher Irem Time to beat An hour or two Cheats Infinite lives, savestates in the boss rush Fun Factor Clever and a little cute I recently beat Metal Storm, a little run and gun platformer on the NES.
You’re in a cute little mech, you run to the right. You shoot robots. There’s a cool gravity flip mechanic. What more could you need?
Up and running with Hugo. it’s a little less streamlined than I expected, but it makes enough sense to get me up and running. Did a little test with 11ty as well, but it just didn’t click with me as smoothly. Mostly because Hugo seems to make it relatively easy to install and change themes.
I also got an NGINX container somewhat up and running. It’s reverse proxying which is about all I want to do for the time being.
ROLLING UPDATE POST: How to build? How to host?
6-15-24 UPDATE
Up and running with Hugo. it’s a little less streamlined than I expected, but it makes enough sense to get me up and running. Did a little test with 11ty as well, but it just didn’t click with me as smoothly. Mostly because Hugo seems to make it relatively easy to install and change themes.
I also got an NGINX container somewhat up and running.