li wrote:

i love the idea that there are exactly 3 people reading this btw. Who Are You.....

I’m topghost, of the toppost.net topghosts

every time I wonder why I haven't played so many cool games this year I remember that I've probably put >100 hours each into final fantasy xiv, hearthstone, balatro, and watching balatro videos on youtube. it doesn't make me feel better but it does change it from being an x-files-style mystery into just an episode of hoarders

playing the hi hat on every 16th note is the "red deck wins" of music production

in such a way that I will only eat at restaurants that advertise themselves as "home of" a burger with some inscrutable name like "the froby". ordering the burger is optional

inspired by li's roadmap I guess I will share an updated and mostly-off-the-cuff version of mine, based on a quick scan of my original goals and the mountain of todo list items I have accumulated since then:

• I gotta get h-entry consumption working so I can "reblog" everyone else who's publishing with it (and bully the rest of you into adding support so I can reblog you too)
• The post editor has some rough styling edges that I would like to sand down a bit. I want the headline and body fields to grow with the post. The buttons are ass and I would like them to not be ass
• I need to write some static pages for a blogroll and possibly some other stuff? This isn't actually programming or anything, I have no excuse for not doing this sooner
• I want a "pinned tags" widget that makes sense on the page in both desktop and mobile
• posts should be editable without using the git repo
• posts should be draftable (I agree with li, localstorage is probably fine for now, though it would be nice to have some alternate strategy
• I need to pull out a bunch of blog-specific things that have been hardcoded and put them into Eleventy Data Files so that my blog is more easily customizable and also probably so I can just take this code, .gitignore the Content and Data files, and force-push back into the octobug repo to have a clean working Eleventy base template.
• I admit I have not been making any progress on also making it possible to use Octobug with an existing static site setup / your own metadata structure. It's going to be kinda hard and finicky and weird and I'm not looking forward to it, sorry!!!!
• I have a couple other very stupid but pretty funny ideas that I'm going to keep a secret for now 🤫

it's fun that me and a few other people have spent the last ~month tricking each other into using our accumulated programming skills to improve our lives. I mean that genuinely. Ok I really gotta take a shower now bye

well, time to go to work. hope there isn’t an october surprise waiting there for me!