An occasionally updated list of changes to my website, blog and articles. Could perhaps be useful to those learning HTML, CSS from scratch and constantly problem solving.
02022
FEBUARY
- Added a "docs" category to the main page, and updated the formatting on my Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace page
JANUARY
- Added a TODO page, with ideas for future articles/self improvement
- I've migrated hosting from Github pages to my own VPS, along with email. If you also want your own email server/'net real-estate, this script might be useful. So you're now visiting a nginx server.
- Crypto page updated with lightning network extras
02021
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER
- Standardised formatting and outlined on About this site page
- Added link icons for out-links to Wikipedia, Amazon, Reddit, and hosted PDFS
- Wrote up my experiences with PoolTogetherDAO, as a defence of crypto’s promise, in face of a recent onslaught by regulators (and smolweb practitioners) on the concept of “web3”. When in fact, yes, open source, permissionless, autonomous and community governed finance protocols are good! Beware — not all “DAOS” stay true to the “D” part…
- Made a cyberpunk-inspired “metaverse business card” for my contact page, a la Hiro Protagonist in Snow Crash
- Changed TLD to .net
OCTOBER
- I've expanded my page on quantifying my life with reference to the Long Now foundation's Manual for Civilisation, which simplified the whole "which 3,000 books should I use my life to read" question.
- Added Rationalist family holidays"
- Compiled some supporting references for my current "Beliefs" with a capital B.
SEPTEMBER
- I dithered the main typographic "M" on my index.html page. Dithering is a method by which you can computationally reduce the size of an image whilst retaining its 'looks'. You can dither your own images here, and read more about the energy savings here
- Expanded the below article with some new research on the role of the anti-nuclear movment in generating "postmodernism".
AUGUST
- Updated my Where Is My Flying Car review with some new counter-arguments.
- Wrote up a musing + a practical resource on the reasoning behind the slow news trend.
- Complied my notes
- Switched from hosting at Bear Blog through the blog subdomain to my main domain. Bear blog is an amazing project, but doesn't as of yet have an export function, and I wanted to back up my stuff.
- Altered Carbon and the problem of the cyborg
- Super top secret family pizza recipe
- After long puzzling (this is self-congratulatory I must admit) at the phenomenon of being able to read only partial text, I wrote: Typography, typography and tpygoarhpy
- Added About this site
- Where Is My Flying Car — my review of J Storrs Hall’s book, as well as an attempt to articulate my feelings regarding the future and Gen Z’s general existential nihilism.
- Fiction: Plato.exe
- Fiction: #Lockdown
- At least a whole hour of head scratching as to why my drop caps occurred on the first paragraph on WebKit browsers, but on the date line on Chromium ones. Regressed to a messy hack of making my first paragraph < h3 > and styling it that way. The dateline derives its styling from the < p > tag, but my drop cap style was only p:first-of-type:first-letter: {}. ???
- Augustan propaganda in the Ara Pacis
- Classical Roman artwork and ideas of victory
- 2021’s predictions
- Roman attitudes to conquest
- Letters to a young contrarian, responded to by a young contrarian
- Cobra Kai: any particular way you want me to analyze this Sensei?
JULY
- Design updated from Menlo, dark background to current style, inspired by the typography of Ye Olde books, using a CSS style sheet from CSS bed, customized to my liking.
- Bearblog.dev is discovered through the Text-only websites directory.
