20250910_Content_rollout_part3

Wahoo, I have completed the last of my initial goals for this website on the eve of Noise Jam! My gallery page is now online, with a nifty set of javascript-based filters. It’s also possible to link to a specific image or a specific set of filters, such as to show off all my art of my OC Gale. The backend for this is also fairly substantial, as I designed it to automate as much of the process of adding new art as possible. Basically, the entire process of adding new art is to drag a new image to a specific folder, run a python script that prompts me for tags and descriptions, then bam! the image is included in the gallery and a thumbnail is automatically generated.

I can’t imagine a simpler way to go through over a hundred images and annotate it with all this information.

The code for this is relatively application-specific, but if there’s a desire for this kind of jekyll-specific layout I can make a writeup on it and release the backend code. The most universally applicable code, the python script for generating the yml file, is currently hosted on this website if you want to take a peek.

I was also inspired a bit by Rue’s website to make a little “Current status” widget. It’s automatically appended to the end of blog posts when there is an update on the same day as the post, and the latest update is listed on my homepage. There’s also an automatic status history page which includes every update I’ve ever posted. Neat!

Future Plans

I may be done with my initially outlined goals, but there’s still more site features that I want to add (the scope creep is eternal). Expect these in the near-to-mid term future.

• not-itch page layout for games, to have more in-depth descriptions than the current games page
• A modular 18+ content warning, which can blur out a part of a page unless the user clicks through and opts in to see it (with an optional checkbox to not show the warning in the future).
• Actually submit Offsuit Pair to the Yuri EVN Webring. Been meaning to do this one for a bit 😭
• More buttons!!
• Small post-mortem for Friction & Integration and Regret Matching (or maybe something more overarching on my experience directing all three of the Team OCs YSO anthologies?)
• More recs from my ongoing TYVNJ reading.

Other changes since last update post

• Long tables of contents now scroll, both on desktop and mobile.
• Blog entries now link to preceding and proceeding entries.
• RSS feed now includes only post excerpt instead of whole post, so that readers will have to click through to see content that wouldn’t be included in the post content (status update and comments).

Status for 2025-09-10

About to enter basic white girl mode and consume all the pumpkin spice.

• Now watching: Flame Fatales speedrunning marathon
• Now reading: Blood Music by Greg Bear
• Now developing: Body-horror mecha for my Noise Jam project
• Now mulling over: Self-Assembly Gets Automated in Reverse of ‘Game of Life’

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