27th October, 2026
Today I'm converting my pages from various formats — HTML fragments, Markdown, Lark (a format of my own invention) — to proper, static HTML. I've finished my book summaries, which is a nice resource for me to have.
An odd thing about living with the type of memory problem I have is that I know I've read all of these books, even written the summaries, but I have no clear idea of when or even what I think of them. I'm aware in the abstract that I read them, but I don't feel like I did. That was one of my motivations for writing the book summaries at the time — a more concrete capturing of my thoughts, not just some thin notion that, "Yes, I did read that."
24th October, 2026
Starting this today! My hope is this will be a fun way for me to share my life online without resorting to shitty platforms. I saw the weblog on coolguy.website and thought, "That's sick, I should do that," so here we are.
I have a lot of old film photos on this site right now that are all very compressed. This is my own fault: I handle image compression with a script, and a lot of these images got processed again and again and again until they're kind of a mess. For example:
So my plan over the next couple of weeks is to pull out my backups of these pictures, compress them sensibly once and replace them. Maybe slightly worse from a page-loading perspective, but a lot better artistically. Maybe even make a gallery to show these photos in a better light. I'm proud of having taken them and developed them myself; it seems right to do them some justice, doesn't it?
What if I used nginx as a web server? That's what I've decided to do. I've converted a subset of my site to static HTML served with nginx, and I'm going to convert things slowly and deliberately. There might be some link-rot, but everything will eventually return.