diff --git a/html/thoughts/attraction b/html/thoughts/attraction index cefb695..dd0b45e 100644 --- a/html/thoughts/attraction +++ b/html/thoughts/attraction @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ + + this concept simply does not make sense to it.

it understands the idea of wanting beings that one is close to. this makes perfect sense to it.
diff --git a/html/thoughts/audio-is-bad b/html/thoughts/audio-is-bad index 48cac48..27b4337 100644 --- a/html/thoughts/audio-is-bad +++ b/html/thoughts/audio-is-bad @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ + + while natalie was making $[make-link /stats/what-song-is-it-listening-to], specifically while it was writing the service that would send song updates to the server from its laptop, it decided to make mpd started by its init system (openrc). this quickly devolved in to also making pipewire start from its init system. prior to now, it was start by an init script ran by the compositor natalie uses, which would run unfuck audio. for some reason, likely due to the fact that natalie uses seatd instead of elogind for session management on its primary laptop, the default artix init scripts for all pipewire related services and mpd did not work. it spent around two hours hacking on these, and now have arrived at a system which vaguely works. both mpd and {pipewire,pipewire-pulse,wireplumber} are started by init, however, for some reason which is entirely obscure to it, pipewire does not recognize anything other than its bluetooth headphones. diff --git a/html/thoughts/dns b/html/thoughts/dns index 663b581..8573d67 100644 --- a/html/thoughts/dns +++ b/html/thoughts/dns @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ + + odette, one of natalie's meat friends (not computer friends) (though she is a computery friend) just bought a domain. apparently the registrar she bought it from didn't have an api, which was problematic because she does not have a static ip. because natalie is a reasonable being, it decided to start hosting dns for her. now it knows (some) things about dns! it likes learning things. diff --git a/html/thoughts/dollcode b/html/thoughts/dollcode index c05383b..6421fc0 100644 --- a/html/thoughts/dollcode +++ b/html/thoughts/dollcode @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@ + recently, dollcode (two track pharmacode except rewritten by autistic transgender girlthings) has become a thing frequently utilized by this one's friends. this is inconvenient, because many of them have written their own transcoders for the format which can handle arbitrarily large numbers. the only two translators (this and this) this one could find online did not support messages that were represented as numbers larger than the 64 bit integer limit. diff --git a/html/thoughts/educational-institutions b/html/thoughts/educational-institutions index 43cecf4..5ae9376 100644 --- a/html/thoughts/educational-institutions +++ b/html/thoughts/educational-institutions @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ + + there is simply no other explanation.

the only time this one felt as though it was in an environment that valued learning was before it was in high school, when it was still going to a school that followed montessori principles (read: let it do whatever it wanted). diff --git a/html/thoughts/fonts??? b/html/thoughts/fonts??? index 89ad93c..948e62f 100644 --- a/html/thoughts/fonts??? +++ b/html/thoughts/fonts??? @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ + + natalie is unsure as to what is going on?
on $[make-link /html/natalie-sightings.html], the font never loads. natalie has failed to ascertain why it is that this occurs, as this has only become an issue today and no edits have been made to that page remotely recently. what on earth.

diff --git a/html/thoughts/healthcare b/html/thoughts/healthcare index 9f1a2c8..a700030 100644 --- a/html/thoughts/healthcare +++ b/html/thoughts/healthcare @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ + +

how is it this bad?

endocrinological

diff --git a/html/thoughts/it-hates-debian b/html/thoughts/it-hates-debian index 09b6a9a..c4bac65 100644 --- a/html/thoughts/it-hates-debian +++ b/html/thoughts/it-hates-debian @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ + + much to natalie's detriment, this server runs debian.

such circumstances would most likely be acceptable if its computers were not cursed with not working in hard to explain ways.
diff --git a/html/thoughts/less-technical-debt b/html/thoughts/less-technical-debt index 8b990ee..b553f44 100644 --- a/html/thoughts/less-technical-debt +++ b/html/thoughts/less-technical-debt @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ + +

it modified almost every html file in the site. there are less problems now.

thoughts like these are no longer viewed as iframes, images are now handled by its img-caption script: diff --git a/html/thoughts/meta b/html/thoughts/meta index b1fddba..fc00575 100644 --- a/html/thoughts/meta +++ b/html/thoughts/meta @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ + +

it is annoyed by this medium

this medium presents thoughts in a 1 dimensional manor without an ergonomic way to link between different posts. diff --git a/html/thoughts/meta-2 b/html/thoughts/meta-2 index cb2ac8d..bedc12b 100644 --- a/html/thoughts/meta-2 +++ b/html/thoughts/meta-2 @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ + + natalie has created an alternative means of viewing thoughts. $[make-footnote "$(make-link '/html/view-thought.html' 'find it here')"] this new method improves upon its complaint regarding linearity in the last metapost by creating a system by which each post can be viewed as its own page. this in theory adds for ergonomic linking between posts, though doing so would somewhat deprecate the prior means of viewing them in favor of the new means. diff --git a/html/thoughts/monorepo b/html/thoughts/monorepo index 1ef917f..b4cdee4 100644 --- a/html/thoughts/monorepo +++ b/html/thoughts/monorepo @@ -1,2 +1,4 @@ + - + + diff --git a/html/thoughts/phones b/html/thoughts/phones index fbb703a..8f1fa0d 100644 --- a/html/thoughts/phones +++ b/html/thoughts/phones @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ + + in its experience, there are 0 phones that do not break every 2-4 months. this is stupid because society made the baffling and frankly quite bad near unilateral decision that phones would be largely required to be a functional being.
diff --git a/html/thoughts/python-goto b/html/thoughts/python-goto index 047a0a0..fd6e0cf 100644 --- a/html/thoughts/python-goto +++ b/html/thoughts/python-goto @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ + + python is extremely extensible, though natalie is not sure that is intentional.
firstly, here is the end product of this venture: diff --git a/html/thoughts/re-previous-font-post b/html/thoughts/re-previous-font-post index 704a745..70dfb66 100644 --- a/html/thoughts/re-previous-font-post +++ b/html/thoughts/re-previous-font-post @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ + + this issue has fixed itself. it does not know why. it did not do anything that would have fixed this. it is mildly perturbed. diff --git a/html/thoughts/site-improvements b/html/thoughts/site-improvements index 65b6da3..e139057 100644 --- a/html/thoughts/site-improvements +++ b/html/thoughts/site-improvements @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ + + this site now uses htmlgen to generate html from common lisp and bash commands at compile time. this has massively improved loading times on nearly all pages by cutting the number of bash commands that need to be used.
diff --git a/html/thoughts/sleep-schedule b/html/thoughts/sleep-schedule index a17493a..fa5b666 100644 --- a/html/thoughts/sleep-schedule +++ b/html/thoughts/sleep-schedule @@ -1,2 +1,4 @@ + + diff --git a/html/thoughts/talgo-shirt b/html/thoughts/talgo-shirt index 7bf25d5..5d2a6e9 100644 --- a/html/thoughts/talgo-shirt +++ b/html/thoughts/talgo-shirt @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ + + diff --git a/html/thoughts/technical-debt b/html/thoughts/technical-debt index c2159c6..4b1e48a 100644 --- a/html/thoughts/technical-debt +++ b/html/thoughts/technical-debt @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ + + this is horrible and bad. the html of just about every webpage is utter garbage because the author is natalie. rewriting everything is going to be such a task, a task that it really should do.

diff --git a/html/thoughts/terminal-emulators b/html/thoughts/terminal-emulators index 8f8e34b..273294a 100644 --- a/html/thoughts/terminal-emulators +++ b/html/thoughts/terminal-emulators @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ + + natalie thinks that its requirements for a terminal emulator are very simple. apparently they are not.
things that it does not want in a terminal: diff --git a/html/thoughts/things-it-should-do b/html/thoughts/things-it-should-do index 9035046..3b1a7d4 100644 --- a/html/thoughts/things-it-should-do +++ b/html/thoughts/things-it-should-do @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ + +

things to do:

  • send email
    • diff --git a/html/thoughts/this-is-a-thought b/html/thoughts/this-is-a-thought index bef53bd..4fa8660 100644 --- a/html/thoughts/this-is-a-thought +++ b/html/thoughts/this-is-a-thought @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ + + this post has been edited to remove behavior that would cause breakage at compile time in compliance with changes to site architecture discussed in "2024-08-21 00:25:12: this site serves pages slowly and with asymetric lag times" and the following post.
    one may think: "but posts don't get compiled". one would be correct, however they get included in documents at the compile time of those documents.
    this caused behavior where every time the /html/random-thoughts.html page was rendered, it would render approximately 8 times the content. not ideal.
    diff --git a/html/thoughts/website-complexity b/html/thoughts/website-complexity index 617cd95..d23b218 100644 --- a/html/thoughts/website-complexity +++ b/html/thoughts/website-complexity @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ + + to keep this website up to date, natalie now has to manage three separate github repositories. this is not ideal, but the previous system was not either.
    diff --git a/html/thoughts/website-concept b/html/thoughts/website-concept index 317f4a9..07b1e22 100644 --- a/html/thoughts/website-concept +++ b/html/thoughts/website-concept @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ + + at the moment, page load times for some pages on this website are quite bad. 
     curl http://localhost:5000/html/random-thoughts.html 0.00s user 0.01s system 0% cpu 2.889 total
diff --git a/html/thoughts/wireless-headphones b/html/thoughts/wireless-headphones
index a2994e6..5e5b723 100644
--- a/html/thoughts/wireless-headphones
+++ b/html/thoughts/wireless-headphones
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
+
 
 
+