January 6, 2021 12:02 AM
A colorful side project
So, I was in the middle of writing a blog entry. And then I started making some ascii art. And then I started coloring that ascii art. And then I thought "Wow, this is annoying", so I started making a tool for myself. More to come on that later.
November 29, 2020 12:11 PM
Thanksgiving site updates
Since I'm not with family this Thanskgiving, I've been spending this whole break writing code and working on this website. And I officially ported over all the blog posts from my old food blog into my new one! I also made a couple of other minor changes:
- I added two links to the top, which allow you to either read from the beginning or from the most recent posts.
- I made all the images full-width. I don't really love that when it's too wide, I can't see the full image, but it also looks weird when the images are all different widths, and I figured this made the site look more like other food blogs.
Next up will be to move the site over to my flailinginmykitchen domain.
I also have a few site updates for this part of the site:
- I edited the CSS so code blocks look a little different and stand out more.
- I added the ability to truncate really long posts. (At first I was trying to do this in a "smart" way by having it count characters, but then I realized that was way too much work. I just have a manual breakpoint that I put in my entries if I want.
- I added another piece of ascii art to the homepage!
November 21, 2020 10:48 PM
Food blog revamp
My next big tech-y project is getting the food blog back. I've created version 2.0, but right now only a few people know about it, and it's still listed under this domain. I have two main goals that I'm working on:
- Port over all the photos and posts from flailinginmykitchen.com
- Have flailinginmykitchen.com actually direct to v2 of the food blog
My wordpress subscription expires in like 50 days so I've gotta get moving on this!
I'm working on the first part now. I was able to download an XML export of all my content on wordpress, and I'm writing a perl script to parse it and load it into the database and CDN for the new food blog. I've been using the XML::LibXML perl module, and I must say it has excellent documentation.
I've also got some other small food blog updates:
- I modified the color scheme a little.
- I added the tag line back in!
- I now have more than one page of posts, so you'll see the Prev and Next buttons at the bottom.
October 7, 2020 2:16 PM
Getting the site back up
A few weeks ago, DigitalOcean underwent some maintenance that didn't go so well, and I wasn't able to reach my server. Once it came back up, I realized I was still having trouble getting my website to work. I looked into to for a few days until I finally realized that it was a firewall issue.
Anyway, it's back up! And I finally got a new SSL cert! I didn't even realize you could do this for free now! So this site is back up, the Teochew site is back up, and I'm making more progress on flailing 2.0.
September 21, 2020 10:05 PM
Bringing back the food blog
I have had the most exhausting few months at work. And it just kept getting worse and worse. I think I was working during all waking hours last week.
But today I did something I haven't done in a while. I worked an 8 hour workday. And then I stopped. Not because I had something to do, but because my 8 hours were up and it was time for me to End of Day.
Anyway, I've been meaning to get back to the food blog. But I'm kind of sick of Wordpress. I looked into alternatives. Ghost seemed promising, but I already got annoyed when I tried to install it, and my tolerance for dealing with annoying things in new pieces of technology are very low, so I gave up on that quickly. I decided that the best thing for me to do was to just build the site myself. When I first started flailing in my kitchen I didn't want to do that at all. I didn't want to be a Sysadmin. But, there is something rewarding about setting up a site yourself. So that's what I'm doing now. I made one blog post, and it's a total mess on the inside, but I'm happy with what I've got so far.
Update: When I first created v2, I made it part of this domain, under the path "/flailing", while the flailing site still had my old blog. I updated the link above to actually point to flailinginmykitchen.com.
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