MY FRIEND: whoa, we haven't seen you since like 2022. Where have you been?

ME: I... I... don't remember?

me, a 20-year-old, watching a 65-year-old person struggle to remember a childhood memory: heh, wow. skill issue I guess. not me, I've got this little thing called BRAIN TRAINING, I just do these every day and you'll never catch me looking like that. sucker

me, a 40-year-old, seeing something about ZZT: goddammit

guy who just happens to get really into blogging on October 1, 2024, without understanding what compels him

something I believe strongly is that you cannot skip track on Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice". Once it starts playing, you have to listen to the whole thing

My friends^[who?] should be allowed to add Wikipedia-style superscript notes to my posts

had a truly sick idea last night revolving around combining short-term cookies with JavaScript setTimeouts in order to fake long-polling (because you have to have GitHub API credentials in order to poll the GitHub repo) and then realized the only user who needs long-polling to auto-refresh is... the person who has API credentials

image posts... I need them

the site upgrades are piling up, I should really backport them to octobug 🤔
among some post editor improvements (better mobile support!) NEW posts should have a new permalink structure while OLD posts retain their old URLs (to hopefully avoid bombarding feeds with "new" posts, and to avoid breaking what I'm sure are hundreds of links to my first ~25 brilliant posts)

are so much higher when deleting the post requires deleting a file from a git repo 😰