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RSS feeds

2026-10-07T12:39:55+00:00

One thing I usually make sure to avoid in the bloatnet are "feeds", because most sites that have them try to fill it up with the cheapest and lowest quality slop they can get away with, just like an industrial pig farmer would, I despise being fed slop so I don't use any of those websites in the first place but it traumatized me as a child because I realized very early on that if they were doing that in such a large scale it means there were "people" stupid enough to click that garbage.

As such I always tend to avoid the world "feed" like the plague, even from places I would have no reason to avoid like small blogs and such

Now that I have a website however, a feed is no longer a mechanism to receive slop; I can now produce it too, or in fancy words "federated decentralized low-latency communication", aka chatting.

I decided that I would use RSS pretty early on when I got the website but the regular decision paralysis got me and I got blocked at this:

I need to make my own rss feed</li>
I need to make sure it works</li>
I need to test one of those reader thingies</li>
I need to find some feeds I care about enough to subscribe, yet fast enough to test it in real time</li>
goto 1.</li> </ol>
You'll notice I said chatting too, I was also wondering how to test chatting BEFORE getting someone to chat with, because I currently don't have anyone, so there's that.
Anyways if you see this webpage (and even if you don't) that means the blog is already serving an Atom feed Here</a> and a RSS feed Here</a> I don't really know what makes them distinct or if I need both but the reader I picked behaves weird with Atom.
Why did I do it now if I am a pro procrastinator you ask? easy, I'm currently skipping class and I'm bored.

Making webpages wrong

2026-09-16T07:04:24+00:00

One of the things that slows me the most when designing most things is the fact that I very often find myself not liking what I already have, and tearing everything apart.

If it happens while programming it is not too big of an issue, I can just comment out the old function, move it at the end of the file and start over again, if I find my new design to be less efficient then I just do the same thing and compare it with the other options, till I exhaust all reasonable ways of doing something.

Making webpages however, is a completely different animal. To begin with you can't really measure your webpage, which is a bad starting point, but the worst part is not that, the worst part is that to make a webpage you need to balance 2 different languages at the same time, HTML</code> and CSS</code>. All those things make finding an optimal impossible, so you have to rely on gut feelings and some other less encompassing meters, like loadtime.

Of course this is a non-issue for the majority of webdevs, because they just ignore quality and any problem in one component they "solve" by just adding more stuff at the other side, this is why they are so affectionately called webshitters.

Anyways, the fact that making a website requires both at the same time is absolutely horrible to learn either if you're as OCD as I am about this stuff, when I was younger I could never ever get a proper page because whenever I changed the HTML I promptly changed the CSS for something that would represent better the new layout, and soon after that I changed the layout so it could be properly styled the way I wanted, then shortly I would discover another place where a different style might look better, and an inconsistency would be created which forced me to start all over again, or the more likely scenario; ragequitting.

Thus trying to make webpages taught me next to nothing about making them, the way I "learned" to make them was not by making webpages, but by fixing other people's messes:

// ==UserScript==</span></span>
// @name        Template</span></span>
// @namespace   -</span></span>
// @version     1.0.0</span></span>
// @match       website.example.com/**</span></span>
// @grant       GM_addStyle</span></span>
// ==/UserScript==</span></span>
</span>
GM_addStyle</span>(</span>`</span></span>
css {goes: here;}</span></span>
`</span>)</span></span></code></pre>
using ViolentMonkey to fix the CSS of hideous looking websites I use the most is pretty easy, and for quite a while it was enough to satisfy me, but soon it tired me and at some point I just got angry and straight up deleted <head></code>, taking with it most styles.</p>
If you ever do that it won't take too long for you to realize that not only the visuals of most webpages are fucked up, but the DOM is almost certainly a hideous garbage too.</p>
I think the defining mark of a good website is simplicity, imo a good website should be viewable just as well if most of the styling is missing</mark>.</p>
In the end, I can't really say I'm showing by example, this website was made specifically so I could cure my decision paralysis when it comes to posting something online (with no success so far), so I try to be a little less methodical than I would normally be.</p>

250kb club 2026-09-06T05:37:01+00:00 In case you haven't noticed this webpage is reasonably small, that's because I dislike bloated webpages quite a lot, it is however, not as optimized as I could which made me a little hesitant about doing one of the things I had in mind when I bought the domain, submitting it to the 250kb club</a>. And so, instead of just submitting the boring homepage, I decided to make a little minigame using css and popovers on it's own subdomain, it's extremely simple and it should be less than 1kb almost every time, with some variance due to the fact that the pattern changes every minute. Anyways go check it out WHACK</a>. The game itself is generated by simply generating a random button pattern every time, you can make as many as you want going as fast as you want, I could probably make a more polished version one day if I feel like it. and yes, you can cheat using tab to select the buttons, but you can cheat using f12 to click them anyways so idc, adding tabindex=-1 to every button wastes too many bytes, you don't get the trophy emoji if you do it that way.</aside> Here</a> is the script to generate it, simply add more letters in q="abcd"</code> to change the amount of buttons, it needs an already existing whack.html</code> to populate. Short Posts 2026-09-02T02:14:36+00:00 I need to start making shorter posts too, so far I have been weeks writing a single one(or rather, the topic for it) and I'm kind of getting burnt out, writing a short entry about that is probably a good start. Still feels kind of wrong to write so little tho... Nothing much to say either. Crypto catch 22 2026-08-10T00:17:39+00:00