12.05.2025

catatonic leisure at one thousand miles per hour

07.27.2023

i love history and there's a dude named baudrillard who writes a great essay about how be believed that the internet would drive everyone insane. he talks about how history is basically just narratives (which is uncontroversial) but he emphasizes that the writing of history, the writing of narratives, requires TIME. time for events to happen, time for the dust to settle, time for people to look back and begin writing the story. this clashes with an almost intrinsic property of the internet: instant gratification.

stop and take time to think about stuff. idk

07.05.2023

testing! this is just some quick code to generate a simple blog, but here's how it works because it will make for some nice filler. the engine is basically a file watchdog that looks at a specific folder for markdown files. it looks for certain formatting cues and ignores others, although I need to really make a prettier method with some regex, but essentially looks for any file titled yyyy-mm-dd.page, and treats them as markdown files to be parsed into HTML.

to make this page, the engine grabs any posts from the posts folder and then wraps it with a header and a footer with some nice CSS. et voila! a blogging platform. i do use composer to integrate the Parsedown library for rendering the markdown files into HTML, but the rest of the project is around 5 kilobytes of code.