i've been working on moving some improvements from other branches to the main branch (because these other branches are so massive in their feature updates that some improvements depend on me self-hosting the site, which i'd like to do at some point, but i don't want that to be the thing that keeps any of my other site improvements from shipping).

apparently i broke the rss feeds, which spammed y'all's rss feeds with duplicate dead links, which i never noticed even though i follow my own feeds for exactly this reason 😭😭😭

anyways this is fixed now and rss feeds should be normal again. as i continue moving over improvements, i'll keep a closer eye on rss. thanks so much for AminurAlan for reporting the issue. i was able to fix this before i even started coffee.

also, and really feeling this because i guess enough people follow the site that some of them will even report issues, thanks again to everyone who follows the site. i really appreciate all of you. if there's any other issues ya…

Hey y'all. This is gonna be a short one. My post about Arborium ended up doing severals. By this I mean it was briefly the number 1 post on Lobste.rs, which is an invite-only diet orange site. Thankfully, I've only received a small amount of harassment from this. Anyways Netrunner card reviews coming soon.

made some pretty substantial edits to my previous post, specifically the parts on why i found gerard's post misleading, and being more clear about the subject of that post's (not david gerard) financial stake in ai

They say “great artists steal”, and I wanted to showcase how I’ve solved some problems I’ve run into on my site by showing some niche dependencies I’ve picked up. Note that these are mostly files that have originated from other sources that I’ve copied in by hand as opposed to imported.

HAST util from Lezer

I will go more into depth on this on a future article on how syntax highlighting on my blog works, but to summarize: I use a tool called Lezer to handle syntax highlighting. This library is part of the pipeline my blog uses for adding that syntax highlighting. This was written by Joel Gustafson and mentioned in an incredible blog post going into some of the history around syntax highlighting. I copied it into my site basically wholesale, and you can find it in my codebase here (converted to javascript from typescript for some reason). I generally prefer copying code in over importing it, because it helps me understand what the code does, and it allows me to tune the code to better fit the needs of my s…

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What theme on the site is your favorite? Mine is the reddish-pinkish theme.

Okay! That's a wrap! Unfortunately, I didn't write as much as last time (65 reviews to 40 reviews, and I didn't write almost all of the reviews this time), but I still had a great time. My big lesson from this session of reviewing Netrunner cards? Get more contributors and/or bunch things up. There were way too many cards and I didn't have enough to say about all of them.

More contributors would be good. I really enjoyed seeing other people's opinions on the cards, and it would be good to set things up earlier and get more stuff involved, if that sounds neat to people. The other option would be to release reviews in batches almost entirely near launch, where I focus on talking about card packages and faction utility.

Idk this stuff is hard. Netrunner is not an easy game to talk about, although it's a great game to play! Get Elevation now! Also please follow my blog via RSS to continue seeing the stuff I put out! It's only going to get better! Or maybe i disappear off the face of the Ea…

some recent changes to the site might result in the mouse showing up inside of the post. this is not intended. please empty your cache for my site and the mouse will go back behind the post 🥺 thank u

anyways, gotta fix some bugs with the attribution at the top of a post. I'm getting the cohost pill avatar on accident.

and the tags aren't working as expected. whoops. gotta fix that

on top of all that, a lot of things are Not Great in a "I need to write better code to prevent these issues" way. especially with the css.