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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

THE REPUBLIC #41

DEMARCATION I did it. I don't deny a thing. —Antigone Thus far our author. Cabals form and dissolve, this much never changes. Motives are often inscrutable even to the members themselves. People don't do things for reasons, they do things because th…

via I'm not really Stanley Lieber. November 2, 2025

Movies: Ringing Bell // Chirin no Suzu (1978)

An innocent lamb learns about life and death when he seeks revenge upon the wolf who slaughtered his mother. What starts as a family Japanese cartoon turns into a dark and violent story that criticizes and reflects upon the theme of revenge and war. The mu…

via andrei.xyz November 2, 2025

Quake 2 Thunderdome - this time in video

Sorry, your browser doesn't support HTML5 video. Here is a link to the video instead. You know about The Café’s Quake 2 Thunderdome by now, but the images don’t satisfy you? Well, in this case I got your back, here is a video to enjoy: the original dem…

via sizeof(cat) October 31, 2025

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