my online presence evolves
When I first made this blog, it was supposed to be a small side thing to my website. Maybe a post every couple weeks or months, just focused on specific impersonal topics like coding or modding. If you wanted to find out more, you'd have to go to my website and play around with the terminal. The website was the hub for everything, and the blog led you back to it, if you so desired.
But that changed pretty much over the course of last year; now my blog is bigger and more important to me than my website, and holds a lot more personal information. My terminal already redirects some things to specific blog pages, and it's pretty inconsistent now what's on the terminal and what's on the blog. Some things are accessible from both. Now the website is a side thing, and it's more like my website leads to my blog. The direction has changed.
It's not really satisfying to keep things like this, weirdly spread around, inconsistent, some stuff harder to update and keep track of. That's why I made the following changes:
- Moved more personal info that was in the terminal to their own blog pages or integrated them into existing pages and posts. I guess that's me moving on from hiding so much of me in a weird riddle.
- Moved some website pages like my toybrick castle page to the blog; makes it easier to update. I am still wrestling with the Bearming gallery add-on, but once that is done, I will also have an image gallery that's easier to update than my old one. Edit: Ended up just including images normally.
- Secret words/links, games, and web projects (like my eel game, dice roller, magnet poetry) are still accessible in the terminal. It's more for that stuff now, which seems more apt and fun. I will make more soon.
- Still struggling to port the counter page over to Bearblog, as it relies on JavaScript. I tried including the
<script>in the post, and also importing a .js file, but none make my counters work. Edit: After an email exchange with Herman, it turns out removing empty lines from the code fixed it because otherwise the Markdown converter will break it. Now it works :) - Finally sorted my posts by year in my "all entries" page. I had to go back and tag ~200 posts with their year.... it also seems temporarily broke my tag system, but I’ve fixed it now.
- I'm also trying to edit my posts with any responses I see from now on. I will likely not do this for older posts because posts are so hard to find here and the search is lackluster, but it should work from now on whenever people e-mail me the link or I see it in the Discover section.
I'm trying to do something new with the terminal soon, but I am still working on it :^) Stay tuned.
Published 06 Jan, 2025