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- Tuesday, the 30th
- In an effort to make this site more type-in-random-junk-and-it-works appropriate, the Updates section now accepts calendar years for its sortingness. That, and the archives are sorted in a more automated manner.
- Sunday, Halloween
- Y'know what doesn't get enough love on this site? Besides, y'know, 'bout everything anymore? My artwork, as sporadic as it may be. Well, I'm changing that, starting today, with some linky-love over at the side to my recent (mostly dA) artistic endevours. Not like there is much else to report over there recently.
- Thursday, the 30th
- Two little things have been bugging me recently about the site. The first is the bottom scrollbar which appears on many pages when using a Webkit browser (like Epiphany/chrome). So, I killed it. The second is the non-transparent background on the favicon, which is displayed like crazy in Ice Weasel/firefox. (Wow, my Linux alternatives sure are affecting my views of things). RE just looks out of place with its big black box. Of course, I don't know how long it will take the favicon to refresh. Viewing it directly seems to help.
- Tuesday, the 31st
- This month, RE was reintroduced to Grafight, only to rediscover how much people ignore it. Yeee. I've given it some work, updating its linking structure and embettering its styles for wider browser support.
That, plus the starts of the new RE layout engine (which is why Grafight pages mysteriously have their page title preceding "Reality's End" instead of coming after).
- Saturday, the 31st
- There's a brand new Reality's End in town -- which is strangely just the old Reality's End. And "town" is just my local machine. That's right; I've finally un-lazied enough to set up an Apache server on my own PC, which will allow me to mirror everything at the live site without worrying about horribly botching things for the visitors.
- Tuesday, the 1st
- Did you know Reality's End has an anniversary curse? Yup, every year 'round this time, the first of June, something bad will happen to me or this site. This time around? Me making a big speech about how to expect big things and being stiffed on my internet access for well beyond how long it shoulda taken to get things set up. Got my modem in the mail after two days; took four weeks to get my internet up. Oy.
So, in what rushed fashion I could, I got rid of all the extensions on non-dynamic pages. No mo' SSI for this site! I also changed the directories for the RE League and BD to the much more fitting /league and /bd. Don't worry; all of your bookmarks and old links will still work.
Finally, I killed off the splash page. The last anniversary pic had been around for a year without getting updated; I think Reality's End finally outlived the usefulness of that thing.
Wow, what a sucktastic eleven years this day turned out to be~!
- Friday, the 30th
- It has probably been no secret that this last year has been rough for Reality's End -- and that is taking into consideration the fact that the past few years have already been on a decline. Between the rampant unemployment for most the time and virtual lack of any internet connectivity in recent months, it is no news that this site hasn't been getting my full attention. Hel, other sites have been getting more attention than here, and I own this freakin' place!
I am coming up on my eleventh year, and I don't have any intentions of slowing down. On the contrary, with my new job and new digs, I hope to have this place all spit-shined up and revamped the way I've wanted it for years now. I mean, this blutty layout was deemed "temporary" when I implemented it, and that was years ago.
Working elsewhere has made me realize just how much I've let RE slip and slide. As I work on more compiled code as opposed to web-based projects, I'm also seeing a lot of shoddy programming. I know I can do better. No, scratch that -- I have done better. Why are these people posting their stuff online and corrupting the internet's fresh minds then?
I have a JavaScript canvas game that is just sitting around unused; I have a heap of code and games that are just sitting around unused. At the very least, I could be making examples of them. After all, I have always claimed that this place was intent on inspiring creativity in others. It is about time I start making good on it. Simply yelling at people who are stupid on the internet isn't going to cut it any more. And, quite frankly, it takes too much time, too.
The technologies I use to make this place have long been outdated. The internet has changed, I have changed, and even my blutty server has changed. I can do so much more, akin to the stuff that led me to web development in the first place. I want to post journals about the finer sides of pomegranates and other fruits I try just for the hey of it. I want people to get programming advice that is actually good and -- shock -- from a programmer. I want to post games without first thinking "No, that will never work with RE's current fan base (or lack thereof)."
And I want number eleven to be that year.
- Wednesday, the 31st
- I have finally pushes through some much needed speed updates to the Kirbj games. Not only should the applets run faster and smoother than ever, but they should also work more consistently across a wider variety of platforms. Y'know, what Java is always supposed to do anyway. Stupid Java...
- Sunday, the 28th
- Welp, I mentioned my new Perl embedding language, and now I'm gonna start using it, dag-nabbit! I've fixed up some of the pages that used SSI for non-layout purposes, which is horrendous for so many reasons. For example, this index no longer uses JavaScript to display the news items to the left.
- Friday, the 29th
- Not dead; just jobless -- and for far too long at that. Desperately trying not to be jobless delayed other planned updates, so instead, you get another sendover to KRR with its Next-In-Line collaborative fiction writer. And yes, that is the third or fifth (depending on how you count) IAS program I've made.
There was also, like, an embedded Perl interpreter I made to replace the SSI on this site, but you don't care about that, right?
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