Fresh off the bakery!

The blog is now... live, I think? Hold on...

• Test^[1], 2212
• Hello?

Hold on... Let me just...

HELLO???

Hello??

hello?

hello

hello...

Well, that's weird... No response? At all? I wonder if it has anything to do with-

Cretu10 • H

yo, you good? why are you screaming?

~n4ta

WHAT?? How did you do that??

CRAP I'm here too??

Blob The Boble Alexander IV • Self proclaimed ruler

I, Blob The Boble of the family Alexander, fourth of his name, hereby announce that the plebians may now communicate henceforth.

~n4ta

Wait this is actually kind of cool...You know, talking with...

1. a name
2. a photo
3. emotions-ish

...instead of it just being all text...

Who else is here?!

theotherthings • Context (bandcamp)

Hi

another banger from the telepath

~n4ta

Oh! Hi Tot! :D

Wait hold on, let me try something...

let mac_speech = Speech {
  name: "mac.",
  src: "mac_pfp",
  note: "It works?"
  right: true, // Let's try this out!!
  access_code: "SGkhIDpE",
};

And now I should just need to run rustc mac_speech.rs aaaaaanddd.....

mac. • It works?

idk what to write anw

~n4ta

HUZZAH!!

Okay, well, what am I even missing then?

• Migrate the website to an SSG using Zola and Tera v2
• Added new badges
• Created the blog section
• Implemented the speech bubble functionality
• Turned off the evil portal machine...

Wait... DANG IT, I FORGOT!

OKAY CAN YOU HOMIES PLEASE ENTERTAIN THE READER WHILE I'M GONE, I SWEAR I'LL BE RIGHT BACK, IT'S JUST FOR A LITTLE BIT, PLEASE AND THANK YOU, BYE SEE YOU SOON, AAAA!

enderprism

haiii :3

marujirushi • "can you put this under ender"

ALT: Speech bubble meme of a YouTube thumbnail of a cat with the title "Kitty says something to me but I don't understand her"

7w7y

despite everything, its still you

7Sary

did you know that spiders used to sometimes be missing their abdomen in specifically android devices?

ALT: An old version of a spider mob from the game "Minecraft" missing its abdomen

Kunyk • 👀

👀

ALT: An animated skeleton running, reminiscent of "Let's take a look 👀" memes

In all seriousness, thank you to these awesome people for providing their awesome likeness to help me test all the markdown features in the blog. Learning and using Zola has been… painful, sure, but that was mostly due to the circumstances I found it in. Zola (now) uses the Tera v2 templating engine, which is similar to Jinja2 and Django templates, and when I started rewriting my website to use Zola, the Tera documentation had features that weren't even implemented. “What?!” I was digging through source code and random template examples without finding any real great answers.

I was so confused until the great enderprism (whom you've seen in this blog post) helped me realize that Tera v2, the one with the cool new features such as custom components, turns out, was only included with Zola three days ago. It hadn't yet trickled down into my package manager, so I was using an old version of Zola with the documentation for the newer, breaking version. What a timing!

Besides that hiccup, it's been a great time! It comes with just enough features without feeling "bloated," it's BLAZINGLY FAST 🦀, it's powerful, extensible, and surprisingly easy to use, especially with its pre-made templates. Initially I chose it because, well... Rust (BLAZINGLY FAST!!!!!!), and I have yet to try out other SSGs (I've used 11ty briefly, though not enough to form an opinion on it), but it's way more than "just a rusty SSG".

Zola is a Static Site Generator I can absolutely recommend.

I have some minor gripes with it, mostly because I tend to overcomplicate things, but something I can talk about is the syntax. I understand that it's a templating engine, and that's it's main goal, so the syntax has to reflect that... but I'd just love if features like components could get a break from that syntax... For example, if I want to whisper like this, I have to create a custom component such as:

{ % component caption(style: string = "") -% }
  <span class="caption" style="{ {style} }">{ {body} }</span>
{ %- endcomponent % }

and then reference it by using

{ % <caption> % } a setup like this { % </caption> % }

Which... is not very visually appealing and is quite convoluted. Of course, I could shrink the word <caption> to something like <cap> or even just <c>, but at that point, with the amount of other special characters it just looks like a cypher. I have a bad habit of working whilst sleep-deprived and the last thing I need is to decrypt cyphers at 3:00AM. I wish I could at the very least use custom components without the { % setup and at best create custom markdown formatting, though I think the latter is less likely. This is obviously, as I said, a really tiny gripe of mine and doesn't really take away from the overall joy of using Zola.

Why am I saying all of this? I don't know, just wanted to test this blog's capabilities of long paragraphs. :]

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OH, right! I forgot tables!