yo,
despite thinking i'd slow down with site development, i've been back in the coder's hole again. in my last post i made this big list of stuff i wanted to improve/add to the site still - sorting out images in blog posts, adding comments somehow, porting the rest of the stuff from the old version of the site, etc... and basically, long story short, i ignored all that and added tags instead ;)
im not really sure why this felt like the right thing to work on first, but it's probably cos i'm kinda thinkin i might start also using the blog to dump the same kind of short-form intrusive thought garbage out into the wild like i used to on "traditional social media platforms". but if i do that i want people using rss to be able to filter which type of posts they get, or i'll feel like i'm pulling some kind of blog subject bait-n-switch. maybe i'm overthinking it but its done now so..... 🤷♀️
i'll be going thru my posts at some point and adding tags to em. hopefully if you're following the blog via rss the tags being added won't cause my old posts to show up as new in your reader, but sometimes when i change how the rss rendering stuff works the reader i use (freshrss) decides the posts are new now and i'll have no idea why? so im kind of just fumbling around in the dark here to some extent. if it does mess with your reader, sorry!
thats actually not the only change tho. i kinda lied about ignoring everything in the list from the last post, cos i've added twemoji to force emojis to display consistently. it was actually pretty easy? the hard bit was all the pissing about with svg filters that followed as i tried to get the "outer glow" type effect i use in various places on this site to work with that, since it works by replacing the emojis with images. but that's a whole entire other thing that i'm not gonna go into here. maybe i'll make a post about it at some point? whats important for now is that it works so everyone can see this in its intended form:
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anyway thats all for this post. im gonna go play more dwarf fortress now. it's been going great.....
– freya