A working version of the new logging system is ready. Still need to polish a few things and think more about scalability, but overall it already works well! My neck and spine hurt after 7 hours in front of the screen though - no idea how IT guys live like this, haha.

Just added a new script that resizes, compresses, and dithers all images and thumbnails! Now I can simply drop pictures into the assets folder and deploy. The hard part was finding all the original files, since I used to delete them and only keep the dithered versions. If anything displays incorrectly, try clearing your cookies and site data.

After automating some stuff with scripts, I had a few more ideas I want to implement here:

• Automatic image dithering before building the site. Right now, I do it manually each time I add images, and it's a pain in the ass.
• Creating a backup file after building the site and uploading it.
• Some kind of template for weeknotes - it would be easier to have a foundation when I start writing. Maybe a tracker that asks questions and generates a table with data on previous week?
• Book log / plant log - both would be great, but it’s probably too much work for now. Maybe someday.

Decided to run on my street instead of the stadium today. It’s different - elevation changes, views, feels more dynamic, though a bit harder. Found a route that’s exactly 5 km from my home and back - that’s nice.

SSH works great too. It literally took me two hours to get it working somehow on Windows - here, I set it up in 30 minutes, and it does so much cool shit. I love it! Should’ve done this a long time ago.

plantay@fedora:~/plantayme$ plndep
Date in navbar updated to May 14
Building site...
Checking all internal links with anchors.
Successfully checked 0 internal link(s) with anchors.
Creating 46 pages (0 orphan) and 3 sections
Done in 104ms.

Zola build completed
Starting deployment...
Deployment finished

Deployment Report:
• Total site size: 987.40 MB
• Transferred this deploy: 877.62 KB

Site deployed to: https://plantay.me/

Also, I finally added an automatic date update in the navbar!! It's so fucking great to just build the website and never have to worry about updating the navbar again!

The RSS and Atom feeds broke after adding new sections btw! Everything is working again now, but for those who used my rss.xml feed - it no longer exists. You can now use Atom instead; there are 3 feeds: full, weblog only, and microblog only. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Also, I finally gave up on using Windows for website maintenance. I tried using SSH for deploying the site, and my experience on Windows was horrible. I updated everything on my Fedora laptop - it’s so smooth and cool. Really excited to write a couple of scripts to automate a bunch of things; I’ve wanted to do that for a very long time.

I wasn’t sure about adding a microblog section of any kind, since I use the weblog for literally everything. But lately, I’ve had a feeling that I’m not writing down a lot of thoughts there simply because they’re too short to bother with - coming up with a post title, description, all that stuff. Maybe this little thing will help with that problem - I don’t know yet, so why not find out?