Chrisoft::Blog(r#"2024 Site Update")

I figured I wanted to give an update on this website (and my current -state in general), so why don’t do it on the leap day…

Blog

The blog has been renamed. Its new name is “Specluncam Ursae” -(Bearess’ Den). And the link has been condensed into a single one -“Specluncam Ursae visere” (Visit the Bearess’ Den).

The name change has been on my mind for years actually. I enjoy word -play quite a lot, and my surname (which literally means “bear” in the -language) is an excellent subject of word play – also a source of -bullying when I was a kid. Since the blog is a place where I just -randomly dump stuff, I figured the name “bear’s den” would be a suiting -name, as I treat it as the home to my thoughts. (Well, not -every single one of them, as you’ll see soon…) As for why it’s -in Latin, that’s because I started naming things in Latin whenever I -feel like it since I started learning the language.

Removing the categories “Development blog” and “Nonsense blog” is -another long overdue change. They were actually a leftover of the -original PHP-based version of SBS. By the time tags were -introduced to SBS version 2, those links have been de facto -obsolete. I just didn’t find the excuse to remove them.

“Why are you using the feminine version of the word ‘bear’?” you may -ask. Well the reason is twofold: first is to disassociate with the -hairy, non-heterosexual male stereotypical imagery of bears. The second -reason is the same as why I wrote “However according to the Haskell -tutorial found at haskell.org, "chirs" == sort "chris" and -is her twin nemesis. That would be a very playful joke.” on the -homepage. [1]

One last point here. I decided to shift the focus of this blog to -more technical subjects. The majority of future posts will be on -technical aspects of my personal projects – I’m going to leave my -profession work (if I can call it that) elsewhere. Reviews and relevant -personal updates will still be posted. Political stuff will still be -kept at a minimum. But I promise those old, extremely cringeworthy posts -on trifling matters will be no more – I was reviewing some of those old -posts recently and part of me really wanted to take -them off the website… It’s really for everybody’s interest that I keep -those to myself…

As for the unfinished posts… no they will probably never get -finished, ever.

Home Page

There were a few readability improvements made to the home page. One -of them is that the about section no longer requires JavaScript to load. -This “noscript support improvement program” might extend to other -sections in the future as well. Besides that, nothing really changed. -There will be no design change to the home page in the foreseeable -future. The random design I used for QMidiPlayer’s documentation is a -surprisingly serviceable template (at least to my eyes).

I may reorganize the list of projects in a different way some -day.

Serving the Website

The URL on the filestorage subdomain is now served through -Cloudflare’s CDN. This will have a positive impact on the load time of -blog images and tracks in the music library, but not much else.

Other Online-presence Stuff

I’m not on Twitter anymore. [2] I have uninstalled their mobile application and blocked -their website (at my own discretion). I’m only keeping the account -because Musk is a narcissistic dick, and doesn’t let me see shit on that -website if I somehow have to obtain a certain piece of information from -it without logging in (I really should use a burner account for that -purpose shouldn’t I?). I now post my random crap on Mastodon, on a -public instance (c.im).

I’m considering to set up a private email server (once again) as my -personal gmail account is flooded with useless junk and my work email is -flooded with another type of junk. Once that’s done I will update my -homepage to reflect that.

Also I somehow restored access to my supposedly deleted Bilibili -account. I don’t intend to post much there but I guess it’s back -now.

I think that’s it? Now I should really get some sleep to recover from -my sleep deprived ass…