diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e60b5fa..36527ed 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ graph*
 __pycache__/
 files/stats/song
 files/home_visit_counter
+home.html
 
-html/
+html/*
 !html/thoughts/
+!html/blog
diff --git a/changelog b/changelog
index f9100cd..197adf1 100644
--- a/changelog
+++ b/changelog
@@ -31,4 +31,5 @@
 2024-08-19: rewrite .*-info pages, add footer, update home.html, make all* images links
 2024-08-20: update my-laptop.html, create my-old-laptop.html
 2024-08-27: test new home.html compiled from lisp code.
-2024-09-01: switch to <a href='https://git.natalieee.net/nat/htmlgen>htmlgen'</a> for content
+2024-09-01: switch to <a href='https://git.natalieee.net/nat/htmlgen>htmlgen'>htmlgen</a> for content
+2024-09-03: fix issue with changelog; update site-info.html; update style; add thought
diff --git a/files/thought-issues.mp4 b/files/thought-issues.mp4
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4aad1a7
Binary files /dev/null and b/files/thought-issues.mp4 differ
diff --git a/html/thoughts/site-improvements b/html/thoughts/site-improvements
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..42a703a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/html/thoughts/site-improvements
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+<!-- DATE: 2024-09-01 17:38:24 -->
+<!-- TITLE: re: last thought; changes have been implemented -->
+this site now uses <a href='https://git.natalieee.net/nat/htmlgen'>htmlgen</a> 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.
+<hr>
+examples:
+<pre>
+~/src/webbed-site λ hyperfine 'curl http://localhost:5002/html/random-thoughts-old.html' -m30 -M30
+Benchmark 1: curl http://localhost:5002/html/random-thoughts-old.html
+  Time (mean ± σ):      2.654 s ±  0.030 s    [User: 0.002 s, System: 0.003 s]
+  Range (min … max):    2.590 s …  2.728 s    30 runs
+
+~/src/webbed-site λ hyperfine 'curl http://localhost:5002/html/random-thoughts.html' -m30 -M30
+Benchmark 1: curl http://localhost:5002/html/random-thoughts.html
+  Time (mean ± σ):      11.4 ms ±   0.8 ms    [User: 1.5 ms, System: 2.8 ms]
+  Range (min … max):    10.2 ms …  13.1 ms    30 runs
+</pre>
+and 
+<pre> 
+~/src/webbed-site λ hyperfine 'curl http://localhost:5002/html/natalie-info-old.html' -m30 -M30
+Benchmark 1: curl http://localhost:5002/html/natalie-info-old.html
+  Time (mean ± σ):     528.3 ms ±   8.4 ms    [User: 1.8 ms, System: 2.7 ms]
+  Range (min … max):   508.3 ms … 545.3 ms    30 runs
+
+~/src/webbed-site λ hyperfine 'curl http://localhost:5002/html/natalie-info.html' -m30 -M30
+Benchmark 1: curl http://localhost:5002/html/natalie-info.html
+  Time (mean ± σ):      16.7 ms ±   1.2 ms    [User: 1.1 ms, System: 3.2 ms]
+  Range (min … max):    15.0 ms …  20.6 ms    30 runs
+</pre>
+<hr>
+overall, this is a very significant performance improvement. now I need to update site-info again.<br>
+unfortunately, I broke my blog. maybe I will fix it at some point.<br>
+todo: edit html/blog/index.html to state this 
+<hr>
+here is an amusing video of the code for this web page being broken during the migration to this system.
+I did not actually fix this, I only removed the problematic code from the first post here.<br>
+<video controls>
+    <source src='/files/thought-issues.mp4'/>
+</video>
+
diff --git a/style.css b/style.css
index f87c946..3e66590 100644
--- a/style.css
+++ b/style.css
@@ -182,8 +182,10 @@ section {
   margin: 15px 30px;
   padding: 20px;
 
-  > details[open] > summary {
-    padding-bottom: 5px;
+  > details[open] {
+    summary {
+      padding-bottom: 5px;
+    }
   }
 
   > p {
@@ -315,6 +317,18 @@ a:visited {
   color: var(--visited-link);
 }
 
+video {
+  width: 95%;
+  border: 10px solid var(--bg);
+  margin: 10px auto;
+  display: block
+}
+
+footnote {
+  font-size: 13px;
+  margin-top: 20px;
+}
+
 .post {
   background: var(--alt-bg);
   box-shadow: 10px 10px var(--gray);