CRANKY PROGRESS

I like Publii, as an editor. It takes much of the pain out of self-hosted blogging, as one would hope. The editor occasionally derps, and I have to save and reload the page, but such events are few, and far between. Just a side note if anyone is in the market for a self-hosted solution to blogging, without having to roll their own shit (which would be an enormous undertaking, given all the expected 'modern' features people whine about).

Anyway, I've almost finished rebooting the 4x site (also using Publii, because why the fuck not?) Aside from a little bit of javascript for the emoji rolling, the rest of the page fits in well as a series of blog posts, so this seemed like a natural fit, albeit one that took it's sweet time dawning on me. After that, I still need to finish up my last 4x entry, which is technically complete, but I enjoyed playing it enough to put in some expanded features and polish. 

Then we're on to working on the next Jam It In compo. Some time in October -- dates pending. We had a little stream going, but it was thrown together quickly and ended up being rather janky (okay, seriously janky, but whatever). The goal for this second round is to have both scheduling AND streaming ready to go ahead of time, so people aren't sitting around scratching their heads wondering what we're up to. I, perhaps stupidly, volunteered for all that, because I'm a big fan of owning the entire tech stack when I work on a project. However... I hate web shit because it's mostly twenty different frameworks stacked on top of each other that I can't be assed to grok. Even if I did, they'd just become deprecated next year, and the churn would continue. So I have wisely elected to eschew all that nonsense.

I'll figure something out. I (almost) always do.