Midnight Pub

Smudge

~starbreaker

I finally managed to get a picture of Smudge, if anybody cares.

Smudge on a blue blanket

I've been busy building out my own website. I wimped out and went back to WordPress.

my site
my crappy sci-fi

inquiry

The phrase "cute indifference" comes to mind.

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starbreaker

Well, I did wake him up just by entering the room. This was after he stretched and greeted me with a meow. He's my querulous coeurl.

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inquiry

Definitely reincarnating querulous feline next time around!

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starbreaker

No kidding. Cats have it made*.

\* assuming you're a housecat and your keepers are patient, loving, and willing to let you be a cat

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inquiry

Okay... assuming I'm a house cat, and my keepers aren't human.... Got it! :-)

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brewed

Smudge is exactly the way I imagined! Congrats on your website! How do you like wordpress?

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starbreaker

Thanks. I'm having doubts about WordPress. Doing everything through a web app is slow, and while it's nice to get the occasional visitor from WordPress.com, the Jetpack plug is obnoxious about upselling, it's a pain to have to moderate comments since 99.999% are from right-wing trolls, and I'm getting at least five brute-force attempts a day. I haven't been cracked yet since I'm careful about keeping my stack up to date, but it's just a matter of time before I get sloppy.

Also, looking at the source for my WordPress theme so I can customize it reminds me of why I started using static generators in the first place.

On the upside, I figured out how to get Ruby, ruby gems, and bundler working properly (and installing gems in my home directory) on OpenBSD, so Jekyll's an option again.

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edisondotme

Fascinating, the link to "my site" was already purple in my browser. I visited and realized, "I've been here before." I can't remember where I found it but I remember it was while I was browsing some simpler web pages. The Internet is a big place, but that made it feel small. :)

But anyways, love the CSS, very clean. If I may make a suggestion:

:%s/crappy/not-crappy/g
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