lumberjack wharfie is on neocities

the blog has its own page now

3 January 2025

happy new year! I've decided to make a blog page on this here neocities site and think about other things to do with the site. I like the idea of starting a digital garden, but I think I'd maybe rather do that in dokuwiki as a self-hosting experiment. But I could certainly link to that and write about it on this site, too :)

anyway I felt like I needed to make a new post given the new page for the blog

okeydokey bye now ~wharfie

in which we try only embedding the paragraph tag

15 December 2024

alrighty see ya ~wharf

P.S. Another possible solution is that, following the embed tag, I could maybe do like a...
little "read more" link or "click here for the full post" or whatever since the embedded blog posts are themselves just html files.

a note on embedded text

14 December 2024

In thinking about ways to structure my neocities site, I've been thinking about how I want to handle blog posts. For now, I'm just doing this reverse chronological stack of "cards" on the homepage (which is for now the only page, lol), but that means I have to write the posts directly in the HTML. That's kinda fine for the very barebones situation of neocities, but it had me thinking about ways to store the posts on external files and embed them. This brought me to the <embed> tag, so I figured I'd test it out, which gives us:

but as you can see, that shit is not formatted the same way as the rest of this text. And I haven't figured out how to fix that. (Gave a quick try in the style.css, but it didn't work.)
I'll explore that idea more later. For now, it's at least useful as-is for code blocks. Like here's the snippet for the above embedded text:

I'm thinking embedding HTML could work better. I'll try that when I come back to this.

ayy i'll see y'all later ~wharf

rocky linux

13 December 2024

I recently installed Rocky Linux on a Dell Latitude E7470 that was left in my possession by a client (who never asked for it back and did not provide instructions on returning it). It's essentially the continuation of CentOS and more-or-less an open-source clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I plan to use it on some headless laptops for homelab stuff, so I figured I'll do some testing with this laptop.
So far, Rocky Linux has been a lot smoother on this laptop (with a 6th-generation Intel i7 -- outdated yet quite applicable for homelab uses) than Ubuntu was, and now I'm feeling like it's actually a pretty good desktop experience right out of the box.
I think the next step is to start checking out NextCloud, and testing self-hosted DokuWiki (which I use to document the Minecraft Realm I play on with some friends). And I guess I might as well install a no-GUI version of Rocky Linux on the headless laptops that will be my servers.

thanks for letting me ramble ~wharf

first entry since reset

12 November 2024

I've been writing this site basically from scratch, using some snippets and such but otherwise not relying on some layout. Before, I was using a layout that looked like Notepad in like Windows XP, and it was really neat, but ultimately I wanted to start using the layout and design for self-expression, too, not just the page content.
I now have a functional layout and some ideas for what to do next, as well as some design decisions that I'll table for later.
The laptop on which I'm writing this is dying, so I'm gonna get this update published and go play Minecraft.

see ya later ~wharf