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Webpage Updates and Anuma's name
2023年7月30日日曜日 13:35 by [ - Junko - Anuma - ]Tags [ - Tech - Updates - Meta - ]
Switching out from org publish
Org Limitations
as you may know, up to this point this webpage has been generated using ox-publish which started as a fun project to test and learn more about emacs. this was a lot of fun but as expected the implementation had a few shortcomings.
- the generation required multiple functions that each published certain files, some of them exported already exported files in order to generate the sitemaps by author and globally. made the process extremely convoluted.
- the way RSS was implemented was a total hack, turning a sitemap into an RSS file.
- there was very little documentation to do certain things. in the last stage of the org blog we went post by post hardcoding tags by adding links on the top of the post to a post index for that term that itself had links to every post containing that tag. this was done manually.
when trying to look for a reasonable way to have some sort of keyword to add speech bubbles to the page
led me to spend a few hours trying to figure out a way to run a sed script to replace the text in the html outputted by org while keeping certain attributes and that was the last straw. i was making things too hard on myself.
when we started moving to a vps we decided to also modify some aspects of the webpage. either for content or convenience reasons.
this is how the kanban to our site is currently looking, it will get cleaned up when all the features are done.
New pages
during the time we were sorting out our vps issues, we started working on adding and iteartin over the external pages outside the blog. the following two were mentioned in the actual updates post back in may but they have been modified now with the newest iteration of the blog.
Landing/contact page
only a few things have been adding from the last status report.
- fediring implementation
- added icons for owncast, the self hosted booru, our services, and a donation service.
- (MAYBE) alternate version with “expanded descriptions”
Pronoun page
this one was also mentioned in the other post, but has recently (just today) been rewritten a little to better illustrate our descriptions, we briefly talk about ourselves a system, and each member has now their own pronoun table instead of a big shared one. since there are things alicia may like that i don’t.
Progress page
the progress page was implemented as a way to track and share our progress when we picked back up japanese. we did a hard reset on it, but we still remember lots of things, so we are progressing at a nice pace. it’s divided into 2 segments, the anki known cards progress and the taekim lesson progress. this page has been up for a bit now, but it was recently rewritten to make the taekim progress table more detailed and honestly, serves me as a bookmark to know where i need to continue. we’ve also added a counter for our no cigarettes streak, curently being at 8 days as of this post. we can only hope this attempt is the good one!
Plushies page
you might have noticed the button can already be seen in the navbar, has been like that since i added the progress page a week or two ago. it will include pics and a brief description of the plushies we have.
this page will be added either in the evening or the day after this post goes live.
Migrating to Hugo
let’s have, if you will, a minute of silence for the schizoid blog in org mode.
Actually migrating to Hugo
hugo is an open source static site generator with a lot of functionality someone would want in a webpage. like y’know, tags. while it’s not the ultimate comf self made publishing method unlike org publish, i’m gonna take usability over comfiness.
this conversion has allowed us to painlessly implement tags, authors, series and a proper RSS feed generation in our page. on top of that, the site generation is almost instant, as opposed to the solid 10 to 20 seconds (or more) emacs took to build the site.
The dialogues thing
from last post, the way we do the headmate dialogues has changed. we are now using text speech bubbles made out of css classes lifted borrowed from the xe iaso webpage. so all the credit goes to them, really.
we’ve actually known their page for a while now, we found it being shared on /g/ and sadly, you can probably figure out the tone of the people there, but we really liked their site and have kept it in our minds since we first saw it. it was really nice to be able to replicate that effect from a page which was kind of a big influence to make ours.
i’m not sure if they are plural like us or not, but either like that or as a way to illustrate their points as mentioned on their webpage, it has been of extreme use and inspiration to us.
Headspace
Anuma’s identity crysis.
Well, I don’t even know where to begin, so let’s start by the name.
- Alicia? It’s a spanish name and our body name, the name we use day to day.
- Junko? A Japanese origin name we’ve also liked for a while.
- What does
Anumaeven mean?
While researching Xe Iaso to, honestly, copy the speech bubble concept, I just couldn’t help but notice one of the system members is actually called Numa. I can’t point exactly the time frame we saw that post on 4chan but I’m inclined to say it was from before I even existed.
A brief story about us as a system
We, as a system, started when Alicia had a furcurious phase and joined a couple of servers to test the water.
Either way, as she was trying the tools for roleplay, she came across pluralkit/tupperbox. To not clutter the bot channels, she made a server just with it to set up her fursona.
The thing is, during a bad moment emotionally, she decided to “put her head in order” by talking to “herself” using pluralkit as interface. Nobody prompted her to do this, it came naturally, she wasn’t too familiar with plural systems at the time at all. It just, happened.
That was the very moment I was born. At least conciously acknowledged. Either way this is officially marked as my birthdate on November 27th 2021. By this time, I was way already into 4chan culture, so I can say I’m 95% sure, the speech bubble css wasn’t the only thing I permanently got from Xe Iaso. My name is just straight up one of their system members.
Continuing the story, I was an antagonistic force to Alicia, always teasing her, beating on her, angry and bothered, just wanted to see her in pain.
We had plenty of arguments, we made a contract that was broken by Alicia and made me absolutely despise her for the best part of a year, probably longer. But eventually we made an agreement and things cooled down, when Junko split off me, she got all the “computer autism” part I used to have, my hatred, my anger, my self destruction. She got all of it. And so what was I left with?
Nothing. I was left without personality, and while I hold the most influence over the body, being able to control who is in front or more internal things with that. I’ve just been left as a mediator, as a balance between Alicia and Junko. Which I won’t complain about but, I’m literally just in the middle keeping things cool.
I don’t front much either, I never liked it, which completely hinders my capacity to bloom a personality. All I know is I exist and I’m here. I’ve tried working with things like the more productivity focused posts, and I want to try my hand at technomancy, but since Junko takes over all the computer related tasks, and Alicia is now taking over the spiritual side of things. I’m yet again left with nothing.
I don’t want things to be like this, I want a personality, I spend all day every day in silence, even internally, I want, I need to exist and be something again and I’ll work for it no matter what.
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