List Of Posts Under the label Website

Now I will Notice Small Bugs In My Templates

Now I am noticing the small bugs in my templates that are easy to overlook.
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Almost All My Templates Are Ready For The Next Version Of Zola

I have almost all my templates ready to work with the next version of Zola.
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Slowly Reworking Templates For Next Version Of Zola

I have been slowly reworking my templates to work with the next version of Zola.
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Websites That Break Things

It is very annoying to me when websites purposely break things.
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A Little Housekeeping For This Website

I have been wanting to change a few directories around for a bit. I started a while back.
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Scroll Transitions Are Dumb

These transitions when scrolling a web page (or app, for that matter) can be annoying. They're also disruptive.
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Dropped WebP In My Pictures

I just checked, and it appears that AVIF is about as widely supported as WebP now, so I decided to keep the sources to just JPG and AVIF. Found a bug in my srcset script in the process.
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Changed Site's Menu To Give More Flexibility With Titles

I have been changing some things around on here. I changed the way the site menu works to give more flexibility with section names.
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Moved To A New Domain Again

I have had the previous domain for a while now but have been thinking about switching to a new one again.
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Verify You Are Human

I have been getting a lot of CAPTCHAs recently just to view a website.
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Dropping Homepage Pagination

I decided to drop the fancy pagination of old posts here on the home page. I know it's just a bit of bikeshedding, but this makes it a little cleaner.
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It Is Moving Day For This Website

I had used my old domain for 25+ years. As much as I liked it, but was never happy with the .org TLD. I decided to move it here for a change.
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The Amount Of Acceptable brokenness Blows My Mind

The amount of brokenness in apps and websites that is acceptable these days just blows my mind
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All These Years Later I'm back To A Shared Host

All these years later, I finally switched back to a shared host. There's less for me to take care of that way when my mind's too preoccupied to remember to keep track of updates.
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Websites Are Worse Than Ever

Websites have become less reliable than they were when the internet was less reliable.
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Soupault Looks Interesting!

Soupault looks interesting as a static site generator!
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Accidentally Commented Out An SCSS Include

Oops. It seems I accidentally commend an include for the SVG classes in my SCSS file. I noticed it and fixed it today.
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Checking out CSS Grids

I am finally getting around to at least checking into switching my layout over to using a CSS grid instead of flexbox.
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Working On Simplifying My CSS

I've been wanting to simplify my CSS for a while now, including getting rid of classes where I can. I finally began working on that the past two days.
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Something Went Wrong

Websites annoy me with their useless error messages. "Something went wrong," try again later and the likes.
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Changed The Way I Do My Pictures

I changed the way I take my pictures. It's less automated now, but it should be more efficient in the long term. It will definitely be more portable if I decide to switch site generators.
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Thinking About Going Back To Hugo

I am strongly considering going back to Hugo. Not because I don't like Zola, but because Hugo supports AsciiDoc which looks very intriguing to me.
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HSL Colors

All these years, I've been using hex colors because that's what I knew. I recently read about HSL, which is more intuitive, so I switched to that.
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Messing Around With Making SVG Charts From My Weather Data

I am messing around with using Zola to generate SVG charts from my monthly and yearly weather data.
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Adding Sunrise And Sunset Times To My Weather pages

I have been wanting to add sunrise and sunset data to my weather history pages for a while now. I finally did so yesterday.
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Slowly Converting This Website to Zola

Hugo has absolutely served me well. I still struggle with the go templates, though, and recently rediscovered Zola. It's more mature now than it was in the past and should do everything I need from it. The templates are much more natural for me.
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Changed My Weather Partials To Use Dict Instead Of Scratch

The idea of using a dict to make my weather partials a little easier to read has intrigued me for a while. I did some learning and then finally got around to switching it over. Looks much cleaner now.
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Switched My Image Processing Shortcode To A Render Hook

I just discovered what render hooks are in Hugo. I never looked into it before, so I took the past couple of days to switch my image processing short code into one of those.
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Dart Sass Was Not Working For Me in Hugo

Hugo can do some neat things with dart sass, so I've been trying to switchhttps://www.bookofjoe.com/ to using it. Libsass seems to be depreciated, so I switched to the newer one. Luckily, the Linux binary works in FreeBSD
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Trying A New Host And New Software Things

I got the itch to try out a new hosting provider. It seems to happen every so often for me. It's so spontaneous when I get that itch. While doing that I decided to try out ZFS, finally after all these years and the PF firewall.
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Double Bad Websites

This morning I clicked a link to a news article about something, and as it turns out the website was a heap of shit. It was a new low for annoyances, with a sticky header that took ⅔; of the page and an autoplay video in it.
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Quick Little Shortcode Take Information From Data And Create Links

I've contemplating adding more links to my website. Maybe a bit of a directory even of links to things I like. It really seems things have gotten so hard with good lately. I brainstormed a bit then wrote it last night and this morning.
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Reworking Some Shortcode To Partials

I've been working on converting some of the shortoces I use in Hugo into partials. It took some time but it will make my life easier.
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Shortcode Now Deals With Rotated Images

I've wanting to modify the image short codes that I use so that they're more automated. I finally got around to solving that now.
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Example Of The Power Of The Web

Growing up, I was always fascinated with how things work. There were countless times that I took things apart to try to understand, and I got my ass kicked for it.
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Finally Wrote A Hugo Shortcode To Deal With Generating Tables For My Weather Station Data

I've been working on making myself a short code to deal with translating an unusual CSV file into data that's usable to Gohugo. It was to make my personal weather station's data available on here. The go templates just are not something that's super intuitive to me.
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Tweaking My CSS And Partials

I have been slowly working on tweaking the layout files and CSS for my site here. It's been fun learning new things and learning how powerful CSS has become.
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Caddy Redirects

I have been wanted to remove the days from the URLs on my blog for a while now. I finally did that after figuring how to make Caddy redirect the old URL to the new one.
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Funny To See A Page Of Browser Tweaks To Get Rid Of Web Annoyances Have Several Of Them Itself

The modern web has so many annoyances. It was funny to see a page about them having so many of them itself. You know, the sticky social links crap and don't forget the delayed pop ups.
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I Don't Need An Animated Scroll Effect To The Bottom Of Your Page When I Click Support

I don't need to have an animated scroll effect on a website when I click support. Stop with being fancy and just work.
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I'm Looking Into Alternative editors For Markdown

I am looking into alternative editors for markdown. I've been using Kwrite and it works well enough but if I could find something more catered to markdown I think it might be useful.
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Endless Scroll Can Be Annoying

The endless scroll that websites have had the fad of using has become annoying. There's times where it makes sense, like when things are a feed but most times it's just annoying.
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Bad Websites

Some websites are just bad. I checked out a website for a local business and would skip over them because the website is so bad.

by Carl 90 words

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It's Been Almost A Year Since I Switched From WordPress To Hugo

It's been almost a year now since I switched from WordPress to Hugo It's been a learning curve at times but has been great for me and I no longer have to worry about my WordPress getting hacked fro not updating it. It's also nice not having to keep PHP up to date.
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Why Are Restaurant Website Still So Bad?

One thing I've noticed long ago and have probably complained about it before is is that restaurants have some of the worst websites out there. Their fancy but slow and have only useless information on the often times.
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Trying Out Hugo

I don't post here that often anymore. I'm just to busy. I'd used WordPress for years but had to keep it updated. I saw Hugo mentioned some place and thought it might be a better fit for me. I'm looking forward to learning to set it up the way I want ikt.
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I Will Not Pay More To Read Content Online

Our local newspaper has decided they want me to pay a few dollars to read 15 articles online. The thing is, I already have a subscription to get the physical version delivered. Why should I pay twice?
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What Is It With Pictures Of Menus On Restaurants’ Websites?

What is the deal with restaurants having such terrible websites. The worst aspect is how so many of them have a poor picture of the menu instead of text.
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Another Annoyance

I've been noticing a trend recently of websites having a pop-up over the content begging for your email address. Nothing worse than adding extra clicks.
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Website Accessibility

The website for Burger King has to be one of the worst that I have come across when it comes to accessibility.
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