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Website Slight Remake

I have remade components of this website and improved how I handle a lot of things on it. Lets talk about them.

- Firstly, you'll have noticed I now I have drop down menus as my headers that take you to relevant pages. I have chosen to do this, as it achieves a good balance of simplicity and minimalism, limits what media will be rendered for the end-user to make sure it's not a bloated obese page, and to achieve the accessibility of most information of content easily found and within only 2 clicks of links.

- I have created an extendable system for HTML Includes in files. This was because, I want to include some information on every(most) page, such as the Headers. This should allow me to streamline the inclusion of content. This isn't relevant to the end-user as it I do not waste time or resources computing this on the client-side with Javascript, or the Server-Side with its equivalents. For this, I chose to write a shell script to preprocess all HTML files and handle includes as relevant. You can find these include marks in the source HTML still, as comments.

- A planned increase in information where relevant for particular pages, and a plan for some new pages. I am considering pages for recommended reading and viewing, with some elaboration on WHY it is recommended. I also plan on adding a page for other websites worthy of note. These would be friends because I'm biased to support them, and people I found to create and include content of a highly educational nature.

Published on 2020/01/16

Articles from blogs I follow around the net

A Sonnet for St. Francis

St. Francis Day falls on the 4th of October so I thought I would repost this sonnet which reflects the way Francis responded to Christ’s call by casting away the rich trappings he had inherited and embracing holy poverty. As … Continue reading →

via Malcolm Guite October 4, 2025

THE REPUBLIC #27

BRANCH PREDICTION The precedent should be respectful of our legal tradition, and our country and our laws, and be based on something—not something somebody dreamt up and others went along with. —Justice Clarence Thomas Impasse. Matters had come to a head. W…

via I'm not really Stanley Lieber. October 3, 2025

Quickie: Xbox screenshots suck

I wanted to post some older screenshots I had on my Xbox, but it seems that they started to delete automatically screenshots older than 90 days. So keep in mind to backup your data. Womp. This article was originally published at: https://andrei.xyz/quickie…

via andrei.xyz October 4, 2025

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