This is (kinda) a continuation of This post.

Earlier today, one of my friends sent me this (I promise this is relevant):

I haven't been this excited about a video game since, uh, actually, since the same friend informed me there was a Bug Fables update. Normally I'd say "it's been years!!!" but it's been an oddly great month for people like me who enjoy very specific video games lmao. Anyways, back in the day, I'd go on twitter (and more recently, cohost, RIP) and post some shit like...

Patapon enjoyers

But I've come to a bit of a conclusion that I don't really like social media that much. I have to literally force myself to use the sites I'm on. I find posting here a lot more enjoyable. The fact of the matter is that if I wanna see posts, curating a reading list is a lot easier than curating the Attention Exploitation Spam Machine. I don't really need to explain all this to get where I'm going with this, I've already talked plenty about how I feel about social media.

I probably haven't talked about how I'm, like... at heart, I'm kinda still a poster. I love being silly online, and as mentioned in my previous post about this, I am generally in agreement that the easier it is to make silly posts, the more likely you are to make silly posts.

And plus, I just think it's kinda funnier to post this stuff on my website that I show to prospective employers. They should know my level of dedication I'll put into even just being a little silly.

Posting from the phone

My first thought was "I've got my site source code hosted up somewhere, what if I hosted a little site where I could remotely automate adding posts from my phone?"

This is not what happened. What ended up happening was I realized that, with there being a lot of new tools for this stuff on Android, I can literally just do everything I do on the computer from my phone. Objectively harder to do, but definitely more fun (for me, exclusively). This involved installing terminux, then node, python, mercurial, and then cloning my site.

The next step is uh... figuring out the posting thing. Which shouldn't be too hard, since I'm just using WebDAV, I can probably just mount the site and upload the whole thing. I think. I don't know, I have to figure out a good workflow for this.

My intention wasn't to mislead, I definitely haven't finished all that up yet, I just though the context for what I'm doing now is at least a bit interesting.

Prototyping a (desktop, currently) post writer (kinda)

Okay, so for the more interesting part: I have written this post almost exclusively in a cute little post generator I wrote.

Here's what it looks like:

Regrettably, there's no way to preview posts outside of moving it onto my site and building the whole thing, but I don't see that as much of a problem. Legitimately, I feel like having something this fleshed out is kinda a major win! And it's something I could put on my phone, if I just changed a few things here and there.

I'll probably use tools more geared towards text editing. I built this with Love2D and loveframes. Great tools, but loveframes textboxes don't fully support highlighting, and considering how hard it is to actually do UI stuff with Love2D, I'm pretty impressed with the level of functionality I've gotten out of it as it is. I really only planned to have it generate post stubs, but I added the post content textbox because it was just, like, 10 more lines of code, and at the very least, I could write my drafts in Zettlr like usual and just copy the whole content into here to make the file as well.

The only other major thing that's missing from this is I can't add tags, which isn't really a big deal, but it'd be easy to implement if I really wanted to.

I also didn't add the description or surprise link fields (description is for some currently hidden text that's mostly used for the Atom feed, and if you haven't figured out the surprise of the surprise link, I won't spoil it for you).

Anyways, outside of finals, that's kind of all I've been up to. I wouldn't even say I had time for this, I'm mostly just procrastinating...

Have a good night, or morning. Thanks for reading :)