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sorbier's avatar sorbier 2 months ago

sorry to be That Person but i think neocities auto-generates an rss feed that mirrors the profile (all site updates)!

sorbier's avatar sorbier 2 months ago

so everyone on neocities has an rss feed; c.f.: https://neocities.org/site/sorbier.rss [[[credits to suboptimalism for documenting this functionality]]]

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skep's avatar skep 2 months ago

This is both true and something I was aware of going in, and I really don't have anything to say in my defense except: not those, those are bad

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oopsiedoodle's avatar oopsiedoodle 2 months ago

As someone who still uses an RSS reader daily, I'd love to see a list of sites that have a feed. I want more sites to follow. Also spent some time trying to figure out how to make an RSS feed just this past weekend. I think I figured it out. Maybe.

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nohappynonsense's avatar nohappynonsense 2 months ago

skep i only half-read this post but add my rss to whatever list you're building. also if anyone needs help making an RSS feed you can ask me or skep how to do so. don't use the auto-feeds; they are bad

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brachypelmide's avatar brachypelmide 2 months ago

ooh! i should probably figure out a feed as well when ((FUCKING ___IFFFFFF___)) i'm done with my rewrite! i'll keep this in mind

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sorbier's avatar sorbier 2 months ago

ok treated this post as a call to action and wrote a site feed;;; i also have a blog feed... please feel free to include either or both on your list

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ajazz's avatar ajazz 2 months ago

i do wish the default feeds were a little more robust lol, "[site] has been updated" can mean anything from "i changed a few lines of css" to "i completely rebuilt my site from the ground up." i maintain a separate feed for my blog posts through my SSG but ik a lot of folks don't have the knowhow to do that

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ghostscape's avatar ghostscape 2 months ago

feel free to add my blog feed even though it's been a minute. will probs make a whole site feed at some point

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grumpfox's avatar grumpfox 2 months ago

I'm up for being included!

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rotheche's avatar rotheche 2 months ago

I set up an rss feed of my book reviews rather the generic neocities rss feed: https://rotheche.neocities.org/booksrss.xml is the feed.

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Should have been using rem instead of em for my font sizes and now I'm too afraid to try fixing it
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brachypelmide's avatar brachypelmide 2 months ago

ha! rookie mistake B) <-- also uses em on literally everything

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nohappynonsense's avatar nohappynonsense 2 months ago

haha what an idiot <-- uses rem and em indiscriminately and prob has px in there once or twice even

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readingproject's avatar readingproject 2 months ago

Biggest idiot of all. Why don't I know these things? I can see me messing around with a lot of css in the future. Thanks Skep. You are a genius

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emilynhoward's avatar emilynhoward 2 months ago

Oh god, I can nev keep those things straight. I think I have already been using rem, but I will check as I hypothetically redesign my website.

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harakanvarpu's avatar harakanvarpu 2 months ago

I uh. I think I use pixels... What is rem? Like, the sleep?

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brachypelmide's avatar brachypelmide 2 months ago

yeah, like the sleep (em is a font's native size, relative to the parent element; rem is a font's native size, relative to the document)

skep's avatar skep 2 months ago

To simplify (and generalize) a bit, rems and ems are relative units; they're good when you want a measurement to be flexible based on a font size.

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nohappynonsense's avatar nohappynonsense 2 months ago

real talk i use vh or vw for everything i can't remember which

skep's avatar skep 2 months ago

I started using those recently, they are very cool but it is a little cursed to set font size as a percentage of the browser width

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skep's avatar skep 2 months ago

Moved the site options to a button menu and other minor tweaks. I think it should work fine. Give a holler if anything is broken.

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skep's avatar skep 2 months ago

Oh god whatever you do don't go from Dark Mode straight into Radioactive Mode, I think I'm blind now

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brachypelmide's avatar brachypelmide 2 months ago

funny, i had forgot i had radioactive mode on already and got blasted. i think i got used to it

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skep's avatar skep 2 months ago

Y'all are weird.

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oopsiedoodle's avatar oopsiedoodle 2 months ago

Hey, thanks for linking to my silly horoscopes :)

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emilynhoward's avatar emilynhoward 2 months ago

Ooooh, is the glowing orb new?

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nohappynonsense's avatar nohappynonsense 2 months ago

i clicked the three dots to find shuffle mode but its not there, probably just an oversight but you should get it fixed asap

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skep's avatar skep 2 months ago

@Emily The glowing orb has been present since the dawn of time, but the button in the corner is new

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skep's avatar skep 2 months ago

@Mike I'm sure I'll get on that soon

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interesting contents. nice read!
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skep's avatar skep 2 months ago

Why thank you, friend!

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p7uen's avatar p7uen 2 months ago

You took the words right out of my mouth Re: Necrodancer. They seem great but just haven't been able to get into them. Anyway thank you for all your musings and listings this year keeping us all entertained!!

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Thank you for the Christmas card! It arrived right on time. :) 🎄
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skep's avatar skep 3 months ago

Dang, I put that in the mail a week ago. Now I'm worried about all the ones I mailed after.

skep's avatar skep 3 months ago

(Just kidding, I'm a pro. My Christmas card recipient list is sorted by distance in descending order)

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nohappynonsense's avatar nohappynonsense 3 months ago

skep using his stamp collection, i see

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zerock's avatar zerock 3 months ago

surely I'll get my card any day now :)

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skep's avatar skep 3 months ago

If you don't, make sure to call the post office and complain

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emilynhoward's avatar emilynhoward 3 months ago

As it turns out, we have almost entirely opposite tastes in Christmas music

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skep's avatar skep 3 months ago

So that'd be, what... like, the one where the dogs bark Jingle Bells?

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nohappynonsense's avatar nohappynonsense 3 months ago

NO FELIZ NAVIDAD AND NO BRUCE SANTA COMING TO TOWN???!!

nohappynonsense's avatar nohappynonsense 3 months ago

skep what are we even doin here man, what the fuck

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emilynhoward's avatar emilynhoward 3 months ago

I just kind of feel like our lists are bizzaro versions of each other's. This is what I would say mine is, in no particular order:

emilynhoward's avatar emilynhoward 3 months ago

The Christmas Song, O Little Town of Bethlehem, Hark the Herald Angels Sing, White Christmas, Jingle Bell Rock, God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen, Silent Night, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let it Snow, All I Want for Christmas is You

emilynhoward's avatar emilynhoward 3 months ago

That Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer with Bing Crosby and Ella Fitzgerald is a banger, though.

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nohappynonsense's avatar nohappynonsense 3 months ago

for any passersby who need to hear a christmas song so good that if you listen to it you automatically get a +2 vit buff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76WFkKp8Tjs

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overclockworked's avatar overclockworked 3 months ago

Shout-outs to Snoopy's Christmas for being to my knowledge the only Christmas song about World War I dogfighting and mortal enemies destined to kill one another

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skep's avatar skep 3 months ago

That's the only one? Weird, that's how I always interpreted Baby It's Cold Outside

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oopsiedoodle's avatar oopsiedoodle 3 months ago

I love Good King Wenceslas. My favorite guilty pleasure Christmas song is Christmas in Las Vegas by Richard Cheese

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asterion's avatar asterion 3 months ago

I can't listen to "Duel of the Fates" unless it is the music video version. Also, your lack of any songs from "Christmas in the Stars: Star Wars Christmas Album" is disturbing.

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nohappynonsense's avatar nohappynonsense 3 months ago

skep i've been thinking about this HERESY all day and i honestly might pull an em-dawg and publish my own top 10 over this

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sorbier's avatar sorbier 3 months ago

> now that I have Eleventy set up the way I like it, I don’t really want to spend a lot more time fussing with it

sorbier's avatar sorbier 3 months ago

so wise... messing with your site and meta-posts about your site setup is the endless black void that keeps calling to me...

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skep's avatar skep 3 months ago

I have plenty of other site things to futz with and subsequently post about, don't worry

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sauerbaker's avatar sauerbaker 3 months ago

Ah, but my homework says *squints at screen, pushes glasses up, punches numbers into old printing calculator* maybe also pork barbeque

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skep's avatar skep 3 months ago

Ooh I do like pork barbecue.

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nohappynonsense's avatar nohappynonsense 3 months ago

:rubbing hands together: i hear you would like to receive random tchotchkes this holiday season

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skep's avatar skep 3 months ago

Another good gift might be a ballistic tchotchke point defense system.

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asterion's avatar asterion 3 months ago

Unicursal Mazes are the gifts that keeps on giving.

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acetaminophriends's avatar acetaminophriends 3 months ago

SO real. Atp in my life I'd rather just go somewhere, or like maybe expendable food is okay, but even that is getting to be a bit much because I literally have snacks piling up and going rancid :E|

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acetaminophriends's avatar acetaminophriends 3 months ago

I was trying to figure out a way to make an analog grimace emoji but i hit enter too soon. Whoops

sorbier's avatar sorbier 3 months ago

being skep's #1 fan never fails to pay off -- so true, tell em king

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It occurs to me, I -have- seen custom HTML tags. Zendesk's knowledge base software uses them now; the WYSIWYG editor inserts them to power some of its functionality, but since they're unstyled containers they don't affect the published page.
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emilynhoward's avatar emilynhoward 3 months ago

I understand about 50% of what you're saying, so I'll take your word for it.

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skep's avatar skep 3 months ago

I could explain it in detail with images and code snippets and stuff but I'd need some sort of dedicated web space for that

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