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Building a new home (snvr)

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Thank you Claude for building me this new home!
It all started as a github page that hosts an essay1 I wrote for a queer-literature class because video support in PDFs is bad and I didn’t want the video snippets be not embedded in the essay. So, naturally, I made a website (with the help of the Claude web interface).
Quartz was great for this since it meant I could have things look like I wrote them in my Obsidian. And when seeing the sidebars I knew I needed to add The Sounds of Neo SF2 as the background track, so a new module got created :)

Since then I’ve gained more METs and since of the three other transfem friends I had at the time, two had their own website, I felt group pressure to also have one :D
A bit more Claude-web-interfacing later and I turned my old essay project into the basis of my website. Some encouragements by close ppl later and it started to host previous creations and writings I did and now it’s the home of my public commitment to the new arc: Exploration & Discovery and more writings to get more comfortable w public-ness and self-expression.

But since having been shown how to switch from the web interface to command line, Claude…

  • implemented a variety of hotkeys 3
  • made banner images in the sidebar work4
  • got a custom sidebar for the mobile version5
  • minor/background things
    • resolved loading time issues
    • normalized links (all lowercase)
    • fixed various issues that popped up
    • created modules that automatically add new posts and recently updated posts to the main page
    • posts now automatically show their post or last update date
    • reading time estimate is only shown if it’s somewhat meaningful
    • customized the 404 page
  • added a QR code for easy sharing
  • link handling
    • added API usage of wikipedia and lw links to show previews on hover
    • in-page loading of all other external links6
    • anything that’s an internal link in my obsidian but not in my published folder (or a draft4) gets unlinked (but still highlighted) to avoid 404s
  • upgraded the music player
    • to be persistent across pages (i.e. it keeps playing when changing to different posts)
    • added skip button
    • custom tracks4
    • (yeah I know, this is strangely advanced given On Music)
  • found out there’s an RSS feed
    • changed it to rely on frontmatter, rather than filesystem dates
    • changed url and html head to avoid rss aggregator pickup
  • added a transformer for custom URLs4
    • url: or slug:
    • (and learned that permalinkis a Quartz-native way to create a redirect)

And helped me switch from github pages to cloudflare pages, which also now has a much shorter URL (back to the dark days of web interface usage though for the setup).

Footnotes

  1. on AI, Cyborgs, and Hybrid Beings through a queer and ecocritical lens ↩

  2. from the game 2064: Read Only Memories ↩

  3. THEY ARE SO FUN! I love navigating my site now :D ↩

  4. this is a frontmatter property now; each post can have it’s own specified ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  5. by default the left sidebar becomes a topbar, the right one a bottombar ↩

  6. if they allow for loading within iframes, which e.g. YouTube does not :/ ↩

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