April 26 2025
GUESS WHAT, FUCKERS! I'M DEVELOPING AGAIN!
After ages of letting this site rot while feeling like I need to Make Shit to Put On It, I've gotten started on jumping through all the hoops necessary to set up an offline dev environment, where I'm much more comfortable doing my work! While this site is going to remain static for the foreseeable future due to Neocities' limitations as a platform, I've been expanding my tech skills and slowly developing more comfort with the command line. I'm eager to start familiarizing myself with the Neocities CLI tool so I can push my offline updates to the live site! Being forced to basically test everything live definitely made me a little shy, so I'm hoping the privacy of testing offline will let me get more comfortable working on the sites in my usual fits-and-starts style. I want to explore options for static page generation so I can get a little sillier with dev tools despite the final product remaining static, and I'm going to be starting with Dokuwiki! The PHP localhost options are a great way to test my static pages in realtime while staying offline until they're ready for live deployment. Thanks for sticking this out with me for so long! I've also been letting my YouTube livestream schedule slip a little bit, but I've been in a weird space to begin with and I'm trying to crawl out of it by picking at my projects piece by piece. Based on the fact that I'm back in the webdev saddle, I'd say it's working!
September 2 2023
Got started on the secondary site theme for the wiki today! I'm really pleased with how it looks so far. I had a bit of trouble geting my browser to read my changes live, but apparently it was simply loading old caches, so I just had to hard-refresh to see my changes. Like all things on the website, it's a work in progress. For now, I focused on overall page theme structure and the most basic of basic bitch CSS so I can deal with it less once I actually get around to putting together the content. I want to see if I can cook up a cute, nonintrusive tiling background texture like other fanwikis have while settling on a slightly more different palette from the base site.
There are a lot of small quality of life features that I'd like to add to the site, like a togglable dark mode, but stuff like that requires a solid amount of coding, and I think I'd want to try a JS-based cookie to store those preferences for whenever you leave and come back. This doesn't even get into further accessibility tweaks I'd have to make. And GDPR compliance on top of it! Rest assured, if and when CSS-altering cookies are implemented, there will be a dedicated Cookie Jar page where you can see all your settings at a glance and delete them.
September 1 2023
Xerxnet has updated to Supporter status on Neocities and is officially live at XerxesTexasToast.com! I'm so excited to start using my domain here, it makes me feel so official ^u^ It's $5/month for Neocities Supporter and another $15-ish/year for domain renewal so upkeep will be piss-easy with art commissions as needed. It's still a HUGE work in progress, but I hope to plug away at it for the foreseeable future! I always have fun ideas for stuff to add here. I just don't know where to start!
August 25 2023
Another eventful afternoon of coding. I've ultimately decided that this little Site News widget is going to have its content hardcoded on the homepage for all eternity. Alas! I do not want to have separate HTML files for every single individual little update, nor do I feel like putting in the elbow grease to figure out how to code across multiple HTML files without a server or increasingly confusing uses of fetch(). With all the content in the same document, though, I can script it to my boundless amusement and maybe even introduce pagination someday!
Oh also I went Super Saiyan Blue and made the navbar exactly how I wanted it to look with nothing but raw CSS.
August 23 2023
GOOD EVENING BITCHES! I am currently trying to pull together the basic skeleton of this website. Right now I'm working on slapping together something of a blog widget using JavaScript arrays, roughly based on the Zonelets engine, but I'm redoing the code because I'm a smug tryhard and I want them to live inside this Site News block that I've already set up. For now, this little shoutbox is gonna be hardcoded! Whoopee! I am subjected to technological horrors of my own creation!
March 2023
WOW! SHIT! FUCK! THIS PLACE IS A BARREN WASTELAND!
I really wanna work on this, especially since I just remembered I have a WorldAnvil that I would like to delete because its wiki functionality is subpar and making it better is too expensive.
THINGS I WANNA DO ON THIS SITE
- Headcanon Wiki
- Fanfic Crosspost? Perhaps
- Art Gallery w/ captcha
- About page
- external links to things like YouTube, Ko-Fi, fanfic sites, socials, etc.
