Lorem is not just a city in Hosta

Tue, Jan 30, 2024

What is Lorem Ipsum?

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages,... Read More

mood: testing
 

Dev Server Issues?

Mon, Jan 22, 2024

Just posted to Discord:

I'm working on my personal site, and am using 11ty with Tailwind and DaisyUI, and have a frustrating problem.

Most pages and posts call on default.njk, which is my main layout.

I'm trying a lot of small variations in the styling at the moment due to how Tailwind works, but the changes to default.njk are not coming through to /_site.

The dev server is seeing the file change, and thinks it has overwritten the... Read More

 

Fresh as a Daisy(UI)

Fri, Jan 19, 2024

I had used DaisyUI on a previous site, but decided to go with pure Tailwind here.

I've now realized just how much simpler DaisyUI can make everything, and am bringing it back. It's a more cohesive design than I could acheive by myself, and makes the code simpler, as instead of five or six css classes for most things it has nice defaults built in.

Biggest issue is undoing the over-rides.

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agitCMS

Tue, Jan 16, 2024

Trying AgitCMS

mood: snuffles
 

Markdown Madness (sounds like a furniture store)

Tue, Jan 16, 2024

Just found that SHIFT-CTRL-V brings up a preview window for markdown, which is great as I've been trying all sorts of programs to make writing easier.

I still think that Typora is the best app for markdown, as long as you have file access, otherwise you're copy pasting into the... Read More

mood: informed