Yesterday, i was thinking once again about digital tombstones. The things we leave behind once we are no longer online for whatever reason. My site is not static, the server is programmed with nodejs, express, and liquid (and other irrelevant stuff). while some pages are more manually crafted, the blog/art pages autogenerate from the 800+ posts on my site (which is a lot wow), and then each post page is generated via its own page, markdown, etc.

This means as soon as i can no longer afford to pay my VPN bills, my website vanishes. I do not want this.

So yesterday and the day before i gave myself the task of making my site generator able to run on its own, apart from the actual web server itself. and i did that! i can now generate my entire site via a small script, and have that running every two weeks on my server, so in the worst possible case, i will only loose two weeks of my work. You can visit the archive here. The archive has a notice that it is an archive, and a date it was last updated!

It is being hosted on neocities, which i picked because it's goal has always been to provide free and good hosting for static sites, and while it is smaller then something like amazon, i think it will stick around for a long time. in fact the neocities supporter will be the second last subscription i have that i get rid of to reduce spending. (the last being the server itself). it's not perfect, but its the best solution for me, for now.

Reading Suggestions:

Cyber Mauseoleums, by neonaut

Web Web

Motherfucking Website - Some stuff about how the web is more accessible by default then it is mostly
Better Motherfucking Website - A response to the above, about how the default accessability could be better very easily
Grumpy Website - a big list of bad designs
Tonsky - Checkbox - A tribute to checkboxes
neonaut - Just a bunch of thoughts about the web

Art

dedware - Beautiful Biological Art
Rondoel - Amazing Comics
Ditherit - Make any image dithered!
Diode Tapestry - Just some beautiful lifelike art and photography

Personal Sites

Castle Cyber Skull  - The coolest virtual castle you will ever visit (a true estimate to the early web)
Mothclub - Columbo - Columbo...
Simone's Computer - I heard you liked computers so i put computers in your computers

Misc

Defensive Computing Checklist - Protect yourself, Own your technology.
Ink & Switch - Interesting papers and experiments on how we interact with computers

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I finally moved all my static files to a /static url so they weren't all on the base url, had to do a bit of fenagiling with that.

I also added metrics! just tells me how many times a page has been visited and the number of kudos. i have chosen not to put this on the actual site however because i don't like the peer pressure type feeling that would create, i also feel pressured by numbers to do Good Posting, so i have come up with a comprimse where for me the data is hidden by default and i have to press buttons to see it. it does also mean that kudos is avaliable on every page now and not just posts c:

I also added some css for insert and delete so that i can better update things!

I also removed the tweemoji script, meaning everything on my site is now first party, when you open my site you are only talking to me. one on one personal conversation. a lil gay if you ask me <3

My sister is going to uni for creative arts and technology, for some of her work she needed to talk to people in the industry, meaning artists and web developers.
I, being both an artist and web developer, was asked to be interviewed. The interview is as follows:

I love minecraft, over the 12 years i have been playing it, i don't think i have had more then a months break from it. And i don't think i've gone even a day without consuming content from the community. The game has certainly changed from what it was;

AND THAT'S A GOOD THING!

I have been seeing more and more people complaining about modern minecraft; too many blocks, too many things to do, too different from what it was.
And that's fine, i don't mind people having those views, what i do mind is them Constantly treating them as fact!

So i am going to talk about the good things about modern minecraft that i love:

• So many blocks! I love so many blocks!
      A recent video essay i watched said this:
     

  The question i always asked myself was "what can i make with these blocks?" the more that was added the more the question became "what blocks will i use to build this?"

   
      and to that i say? so? you have the power to restrict block types, or experement with including more then you usually do. BdoubleO100 is amazing at this, in a recent hermitcraft episode^[1] he mixed 15 different blocks into a single wall, not including detailing, and it looks like one of the most cohesive and unified walls i have ever seen in minecraft! you do not have to use the new blocks, often at the begining of a world you can't, and that is fun! but choice is also fun and you have the choice on whether to use them or not. Minecraft is full of wonderful and creative blocks and you should try them out, because you just