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Scott @scott222.bsky.social · 5h

Also I (genuinely) love how BlueSky uses a screeny of the page rather than just showing nothing if there's no meta image lol.

Scott @scott222.bsky.social · 5h

I've began the move back to Neocities.

I've realised maintaining both sites while moving is just gonna be more work/a huge pain, so I've opted to simply remove everything from scott.itsasite and just do the move to scott2.neocities.org over the next coupla weeks.

Scott's NeoSite

scott2.neocities.org

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Scott @scott222.bsky.social · 16h

And it's unlikely to change anyways. :D

Scott @scott222.bsky.social · 16h

Strange how less is more sometimes. Started "de-PHPing" the WebDev Demos section on my site so I can move back to Neocities. It's made the code simpler xD. Slight catch - have to dupe the main HTML per demo, but it's a simple layout so for a lazy update I could just change the CSS or JS in a pinch.

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Scott @scott222.bsky.social · 1d

(2/3) As such, I think I'm going to switch priorities to getting my site/projects back on Neocities and minimising the steps required to add a blog post. This probably means using Static Ultra and scrapping RSS for the time being. But it also means I can start updating my site again.

Scott @scott222.bsky.social · 11d

Dealing with circular dependencies is always a pita. But I always find my code is better organised once I do. And I generally do even if the code compiles/runs.

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Scott @scott222.bsky.social · 12d

My app will work offline, have no accounts and will provide offline help.

Well, you'll obviously have to be online and provide your FTP credentials to use the FTP functionality once its added, but if you'd rather not, you can just use the app for site-building and upload the result yourself.

Scott @scott222.bsky.social · 12d

Quickly checked it out. Easy to use and nice UI but:

- 10s of use, already been nagged several times to upgrade to a paid plan
- Stats = behind a paid plan
- Visitors to your site are shown a "user generated - continue?" page

IMO if you'd like awesome free static hosting go with Neocities!

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Scott @scott222.bsky.social · 12d

Surprised! Just learned W3Schools has free static website hosting. 😮 When did they introduce that?

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Scott @scott222.bsky.social · 13d

Finally ordered my "2 Nintendo Switch" 😁. Went for the Z-A Bundle since it's something I would get eventually and buying a bundle saves a bit. Anywhooo wohooo on the 16th it will finally be mine.

Scott @scott222.bsky.social · 13d

Controversial opinion: *Something 99% of people agree with*

[PICTURE OF CAT]

#WhateverIsTrendingEvenIfItsUnrelated

Scott @scott222.bsky.social · 13d

😂😂😂

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Scott @scott222.bsky.social · 15d

I'm taking my time with this project and not feeling bad about realising when adding something new I need to "refactor" a bit. There is a balance for sure, but I'd rather get the base layers right NOW, than end up with a headache/project I don't want to work on later.

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Scott @scott222.bsky.social · 15d

3/3 Well, that's what I think anyway. xD

Scott @scott222.bsky.social · 15d

2/3 Thing is, whenever you're trying, this process *is making progress and getting things done*. Just because you're not typing a lot or seeing visual changes, doesn't mean you're not making progress. Takes as long as it takes. Relax, learn from what didn't work, eventually you'll get there.

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Scott @scott222.bsky.social · 15d

1/3 I think sometimes I demotivate myself out of coding project progress when I'm stuck. e.g.

1. I'm stuck
2. The things I'm trying aren't working. Feel like I haven't made progress
3. Feel guilty, don't want to repeat the process just to potentially be back at #1.

#hobbydev #solodev #motivation

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Scott @scott222.bsky.social · 16d

Alrighty, if I can just get all the buttons in my app's Theme mode working today, I shouldn't be toooo far and away from being able to do the same for the Pages and Blog modes. So I'm not tooooo far and away from being to use my app myself to build my site+blog, wohooo. :D

#webdev #hobbydev

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Scott @scott222.bsky.social · 17d

If all else fails, display:none! 😁

Scott @scott222.bsky.social · 17d

This is how easy it is to support the user's dark mode pref in a desktop app with ElectronJS, since it supports CSS the same way a web browser does!

(This is a follow up to my post the other day. also I don't work for ElectronJS just think it's interesting lol!).

#solodev #webdev #hobbydev

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Scott @scott222.bsky.social · 18d

Nice thing I've found using Electron (and thus HTML/JS/CSS) to develop a desktop app. Supports detecting the user's dark mode pref the same as a web browser:

@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark)
{
body { display:none; /* lol */ }
}

Nifty!

#webdev #hobbydev #solodev @electronjs.org

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Scott @scott222.bsky.social · 18d

All the 1s. 111 days until I can finally play FF7R (never played before, getting it on Switch 2).

scott.itsasite.uk/days-until/r...

Scott @scott222.bsky.social · 18d

"css.lint.emptyRules": "ignore"

Sometimes I like to see that I've considered a CSS ID and deliberately chose not to add any styles to it. And I don't really feel like writing:

background-color:transparent; or something every time.

So yeah take that VS Code lol.

#solodev #hobbydev #vscode

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Scott @scott222.bsky.social · 19d

I was surprised to learn the cartoon came after the game! Thought it was the other way around initially.

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Scott @scott222.bsky.social · 19d

The closest thing I can think of is... Earthworm Jim on the Mega Drive!

Earthworm Earthworm Jim GIF

ALT: Earthworm Earthworm Jim GIF

media.tenor.com

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Scott @scott222.bsky.social · 19d

Blimey I'm losing it. Just wondered why a web page wasn't playing music. Clicked it, made sure it was unmuted etc...

Turned out I didn't have my headphones on. :)

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