Update on things~
Mar. 11th, 2017 06:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
So, I've been working on the website. I have the unsaga diary page pretty much done, now I just have the process of converting all of the entries to html pages. I know I could probably do this with a script, but I'm also going back through and editing them as I go. I want to make sure that I use the correct terms for stuff (like say Growth Panel instead of 'panel thing' and stuff XD) and capitalize stuff and fix some grammar and typos... I'm also changing misinformation and stuff as I go.

Here's what it looks like right now. The next/back buttons in the bottom corners are fixed, so they'll stay there as you scroll the page. I actually have a few different designs (uh, they're all just like this but slightly different margins/borders) so feel free to go to fb and give me advice? XD
In the end, I will have a 'main menu' bar at the top with links to the other play diaries and my home page, too. It will be very simple.
I thought it would be tedious to go through and edit all these old entries, but I'm actually having a lot of fun reliving the old adventures with Ruby right now. Plus I'm using vim to edit, and it's been forever since I've used vim, and now I'm like.. frustrated having to use other text editors (like, I'm trying to use vim commands on the DW text editor right now LOLOL) but yeah I loooove vim so it feels very nice to use it. Makes me want to go back to using Linux XD But I have my sql server and stuff set up on Winny already, so it would be a pain to try to migrate over there. I do have a web server and stuff set up there, and all of the web dev tools I'd need (including a much more 'tricked out' vim lol, though I guess I could just copy my vimrc from there to here lol) but uh setting up the sql server again and stuff just... I don't want to XD Plus all my content is on Winny and I already have a database and tables on here and... yeah XD But I miss Lenny. I really would like to get another laptop for gaming and stuff and turn this one into a work computer that only runs Lenny.
ANYWAY. I used to want LJ (and I guess now DW) to be like, a detailed chronicle of my life lol but I hardly ever update here anymore. I think I have almost no social needs anymore (not that I had too much before) so as long as I like... tell one person about something I generally don't feel like I need to share it any more. And between Dens and my family and friends I usually end up telling someone everything before posting online, so all you get here is like OMG I HAVE ANXIETY I WANT DIE and crap.
But uh, I do want to talk about this one thing just so I can like... come back and laugh about it later XD
And that thing is that... somehow I stumbled onto this uh... nursery... rhyme? thing called "Johny Johny Yes Papa" which is this stupid song sung to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star but the lyrics are like:
Johny Johny Yes Papa
Eating sugar No Papa
Telling lies No Papa
Open your mouth Ha ha ha
And like it's supposed to be a conversation between Johny and Papa lol. Anyway, there are like 203598230958029358320958 videos of this on youtube, but somehow I stumbled onto like... this one made by this dad and his kid but they changed it to include all kinds of sweets, and it was dubbed over in Spanish?! And I have no idea how I even ended on that because I am not one of those like... youtube explorers who just clicks on random stuff like... I pretty much exclusively watch Hello! Project videos.
But somehow I saw that and clicked it which is weird on its own. BUT UH THE DAD WAS HOT and so I randomly started watching more of these and like... then I was just watching any Johny Johny Yes Papa thing I could find because it was funny and the song was stuck in my head and like there are so many weird ones... for two days I spent many hours of my day like... watching these stupid kid song things????????????????????????
And I even found like the official channel of the family that made the original one I found (as in, official channel of hot dad) and like... there's actually a lot of cute stuff on there and even though it's made for toddlers I like... watched so much lmfao.
And now constantly I have that stupid Johny Johny Yes Papa song stuck in my head, and this like Don't Put the Peeps in the Microwave thing, too...
Also I really wished I talked about H!P here ??? Well, like... more? Even when I was originally doing LJ I didn't talk about it much? Like... I have been into H!P for like 15 years now and it's one of my fav things of all time and like... idk, I feel like H!P is important to my life but I never talk about it??? But I think it's because I already have someone to talk about it with (and back then, I like... FORCED everyone around me to be into it too LOL) so I guess I don't need the outlet here??? lol. idk.
Also, I was thinking about the play diaries and it might be... quite a while before I'm able to get the website actually up and running, with all the editing and stuff, plus I might not want to publish it right away with the diaries like only partly finished?
So what I can do is just disable auto-formatting and format the entries properly on here and post them, then it will just be a matter of copy/pasting them to an html file and changing the img srcs, which shouldn't be hard at all. I can even go ahead and copy the proper images to the web directories so I pretty much can quickly just go in and change the urls... in fact, I'd be able to do it with just minimal effort after posting them to DW.
So I'll probably start doing those when I'm tired of editing the pages.
Editing all these pages is also nice because it gives me something to do that I can do without having to concentrate or think too hard, which means I can do it even with distractions, which is good, because literally everything distracts me. So a lot of times I just sit around and feel frustrated because I can't do anything. And that's something I'm going to be talking about more with my therapist lol.
but yeah since I'm just editing paragraphs at a time, and I can easily like... stop in the middle of one and restart just by rereading it from the beginning, and I can keep track of where I am because vim saves your cursor position plus the things I haven't done yet won't have the HTML tags on them... So it's something I can be interrupted with and continue doing.
But yeah, I'mma go back to editing entries now XD
Oh, yeah, I have screenshots and need to make a post about imsaga's new Roll System, which is pretty awesome XD

Here's what it looks like right now. The next/back buttons in the bottom corners are fixed, so they'll stay there as you scroll the page. I actually have a few different designs (uh, they're all just like this but slightly different margins/borders) so feel free to go to fb and give me advice? XD
In the end, I will have a 'main menu' bar at the top with links to the other play diaries and my home page, too. It will be very simple.
I thought it would be tedious to go through and edit all these old entries, but I'm actually having a lot of fun reliving the old adventures with Ruby right now. Plus I'm using vim to edit, and it's been forever since I've used vim, and now I'm like.. frustrated having to use other text editors (like, I'm trying to use vim commands on the DW text editor right now LOLOL) but yeah I loooove vim so it feels very nice to use it. Makes me want to go back to using Linux XD But I have my sql server and stuff set up on Winny already, so it would be a pain to try to migrate over there. I do have a web server and stuff set up there, and all of the web dev tools I'd need (including a much more 'tricked out' vim lol, though I guess I could just copy my vimrc from there to here lol) but uh setting up the sql server again and stuff just... I don't want to XD Plus all my content is on Winny and I already have a database and tables on here and... yeah XD But I miss Lenny. I really would like to get another laptop for gaming and stuff and turn this one into a work computer that only runs Lenny.
ANYWAY. I used to want LJ (and I guess now DW) to be like, a detailed chronicle of my life lol but I hardly ever update here anymore. I think I have almost no social needs anymore (not that I had too much before) so as long as I like... tell one person about something I generally don't feel like I need to share it any more. And between Dens and my family and friends I usually end up telling someone everything before posting online, so all you get here is like OMG I HAVE ANXIETY I WANT DIE and crap.
But uh, I do want to talk about this one thing just so I can like... come back and laugh about it later XD
And that thing is that... somehow I stumbled onto this uh... nursery... rhyme? thing called "Johny Johny Yes Papa" which is this stupid song sung to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star but the lyrics are like:
Johny Johny Yes Papa
Eating sugar No Papa
Telling lies No Papa
Open your mouth Ha ha ha
And like it's supposed to be a conversation between Johny and Papa lol. Anyway, there are like 203598230958029358320958 videos of this on youtube, but somehow I stumbled onto like... this one made by this dad and his kid but they changed it to include all kinds of sweets, and it was dubbed over in Spanish?! And I have no idea how I even ended on that because I am not one of those like... youtube explorers who just clicks on random stuff like... I pretty much exclusively watch Hello! Project videos.
But somehow I saw that and clicked it which is weird on its own. BUT UH THE DAD WAS HOT and so I randomly started watching more of these and like... then I was just watching any Johny Johny Yes Papa thing I could find because it was funny and the song was stuck in my head and like there are so many weird ones... for two days I spent many hours of my day like... watching these stupid kid song things????????????????????????
And I even found like the official channel of the family that made the original one I found (as in, official channel of hot dad) and like... there's actually a lot of cute stuff on there and even though it's made for toddlers I like... watched so much lmfao.
And now constantly I have that stupid Johny Johny Yes Papa song stuck in my head, and this like Don't Put the Peeps in the Microwave thing, too...
Also I really wished I talked about H!P here ??? Well, like... more? Even when I was originally doing LJ I didn't talk about it much? Like... I have been into H!P for like 15 years now and it's one of my fav things of all time and like... idk, I feel like H!P is important to my life but I never talk about it??? But I think it's because I already have someone to talk about it with (and back then, I like... FORCED everyone around me to be into it too LOL) so I guess I don't need the outlet here??? lol. idk.
Also, I was thinking about the play diaries and it might be... quite a while before I'm able to get the website actually up and running, with all the editing and stuff, plus I might not want to publish it right away with the diaries like only partly finished?
So what I can do is just disable auto-formatting and format the entries properly on here and post them, then it will just be a matter of copy/pasting them to an html file and changing the img srcs, which shouldn't be hard at all. I can even go ahead and copy the proper images to the web directories so I pretty much can quickly just go in and change the urls... in fact, I'd be able to do it with just minimal effort after posting them to DW.
So I'll probably start doing those when I'm tired of editing the pages.
Editing all these pages is also nice because it gives me something to do that I can do without having to concentrate or think too hard, which means I can do it even with distractions, which is good, because literally everything distracts me. So a lot of times I just sit around and feel frustrated because I can't do anything. And that's something I'm going to be talking about more with my therapist lol.
but yeah since I'm just editing paragraphs at a time, and I can easily like... stop in the middle of one and restart just by rereading it from the beginning, and I can keep track of where I am because vim saves your cursor position plus the things I haven't done yet won't have the HTML tags on them... So it's something I can be interrupted with and continue doing.
But yeah, I'mma go back to editing entries now XD
Oh, yeah, I have screenshots and need to make a post about imsaga's new Roll System, which is pretty awesome XD
no subject
Date: 2017-03-13 11:05 am (UTC)I actually can't even be bothered to try and edit the CSS for DW to make it less ugly XD I just spend loads of time sitting around wishing I had time to do stuff, which is super stupid. And every now and then I get days where I'm like "YEAH HELL YEAH DO THIS THING AND THEN THIS THING AND THEN GET THIS JOB YEAHHHHH >OOOOO" and then the next day I'm just "no, just go to this shit job and die alone 'cause you'll never succeed anyway so fuck it, it's too much effort" and those days are most days, and those days are the days where I just sit around wasting time thinking about how I wish I had time to do something productive :DDDDDDD
omg this DW page is so jarring - the page is white and the text is grey why did I pick this theme
no subject
Date: 2017-03-13 06:58 pm (UTC)And yeah I get like that, too -- which is usually when I get a job or whatever, but then taking on all those new things makes me die and then I can't do it anymore and get miserable again lol. And yeah most of my days are like that XD though recently I've been pretty motivated to work on the web site at least XD
no subject
Date: 2017-03-13 10:26 pm (UTC)HTML is meant to describe what is on a page, and was never really intended to control style. Stuff like determining what is a header, title, etc. is basically all it's for. This was to help indexing and stuff, but it started to become more style-y when demand for style on the web arose.
CSS is for controlling style of pages, by creating various style classes and stuff. Basically HTML is meant to be the plain text with some tags to tell a browser how to read it properly, and CSS is meant for everything else.
Both of those simply outline the look of a page on the screen, and don't really do anything else.
JavaScript and PHP are both scripting languages that can do a lot more, like handle variables and control flow (if statements and stuff), so pages can do a lot more than just... display text. The main difference between them when it comes to web dev is that JavaScript is client-side, so it runs on the viewer's computer through their web browser after they've already obtained the page from the server, and PHP is server-side, so it runs on the server before delivering the page to the client.
So JS is usually used to create interactive things or do fancy shit that you can't do with something as simple/straightforward as HTML+CSS, so the page is 'active' and can respond to what the user is doing. And PHP is used to interact with the server so the pages can be sent dynamically, doing things like checking user login credentials or interacting with databases to display different things on the page based on user choices sent to the server.
Basically you use scripting to make the pages do anything more than simply display a file with colors, and change which one you use depending on if you need to interact with the user or the server.
Though these days you can use JS server-side, too, with stuff like ASP (Microsoft's thingy) or Node.js, and JS was probably be the future of webdev, pushing php aside slowly IMO. But I'm learning PHP because as it is now, pretty much any web server ever is going to have PHP installed, and since it's older now, there's tons of resources on using it for the purposes I'm using it.
But yeah, dev in general is super fun XD If you ever get back in it and have questions, feel free to ask. I'm newer to web dev but I already know a lot of general dev stuff so it's pretty easy to pick up. Once I get the play diaries running, I'll also start doing the game dev tutorials, and I might do some web dev tutorials, too. but I need to learn a lot more about it.
But uh yeah I'm way too lazy to mess with the CSS for DW and Tumblr and stuff hahaha. Even though it probably wouldn't be all that hard.