I like my new supernaut so much that I just want to write stuff here. It’s like Twitter on Blog. Shall continue on those bottles of wine. (#drunkwhileblogging)
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More or less done … all over but the screaming o…
Status
More or less done … all over but the screaming of editing the database by hand. (sure to find horridness though…)
A bit less of a Mess
Aside
Slight progression. Post formats work (as an aside, I am an aside). Different footers for single post pages. Discovering the horrible tension between ‘child theme’ and writing ugly hacks to cripple the parent.
Shall go and do proper work now.
A bit of a Mess, (continued)
Aside
… supernaut has been one-columnised. Most of the index page is done. Older stuff is broken (Oh! Images, why do you hate me?). Things have been lost/misplaced/sorted into piles for later use or discarding. Looking forward to hand-grepping the database.
(This is trying to be an aside but breaks things … Trying to use supernaut differently.)
A bit of a Mess, Really …
I was planning on slowly flopping supernaut over to a newer look … well, mostly the same old look but wrapped around WordPress’ default theme, so I could a) take advantage of all the fun new things like post formats, b) deal with some irritations of having slung supernaut through two or three platforms (WordPress, MovableType, and I think something else), and the general cruft of 8 years blogging and z) just because …
Slowly became quick because supernaut got hacked again. Not looking at you, DreamHost, too hard, but it’s getting kind of irritating lately. It’s probably not the very old theme supernaut is running on which is responsible for this, but having looked through the logs, gah! Keine ahnung!
So I swapped over to the new theme early. Severely unfinished. Much mess everywhere. Embarrassment? Yes! It’s going to take a long time before it looks all proper, like.
And this post was written using the Aside new post format. More of a Status really.
Fuck it, I’ve got six opened bottles of wine by me feet and a … what am I doing sitting all alone in the darkness in Alte Kantine Wedding?
新年快乐 supernaut！！！
Blog birthday, 8 years old.
supernaut lightbox
When supernaut first began, there was barely much of the internet as it is now. I had decided to use Movable Type for my blog and WordPress was not even a year old – I don’t think I’d even heard of it. Besides the horrible static page method of publishing in MT, more generally handling images was a big episode of blah.
To get images to open in a pop-up window without the irritation of window baggage scrollbars, toolbars and so on) meant yucky JavaScript in the link tag. A perfect example of depreciated code staining the web is that almost seven years later, I’m still using this rubbish code.
Feeling rather frisky today (17h, still in bed), I decided it wouldn’t really be so difficult to implement the current joy-of-images, a jQuery Lightbox plugin. I expect it to be depreciated in a matter of a year or so, but in the meantime…
Click image and enjoy. The best thing is that it adds the necessary tag to the image link so works on all images. I suppose I should clean up the style a bit…
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