Status Archive pages — auto-added Youtube and Vimeo poster images as the “featured image” for the respective status updates.
Cool. New. Tag. Showcase. On the front page. For folks not familiar with GPORG and want to know what GPORG has to offer.
Improvements
Mobile – moved the hamburger menu button to the bottom middle of the screen, for thumbs to reach easily. (Also added a cool animation where it changes from a normal hamburger menu icon to an arrow).
Added some CSS black magic to make the scrollbar on the menu thinner and simpler. This only works on webkit browsers (Chrome and Safari), hence the black magic part (as a Firefox user, I mean…). I’m too used to having Mac OS set up so the scrollbars don’t actually show up unless you’re scrolling and didn’t think about how it looks on Windows.
Made some accessibility & best practice improvements to make Lighthouse happy.
Made the image headers on all pages taller. This makes it easier for me to hunt down images that would look great in this particular aspect ratio (instead of behind ridiculously widescreen, it’s just über widescreen).
Bug Fixes
Fixed an issue where the lazyloading wouldn’t work.
Fixed the font size and spacing on post metas (the date and categories on a blog post).
New:
Switched the feed URL at the bottom (linked to the RSS icon) with a new subscribe page, basically creating my own version of the (now possibly dead) Feedburner.
Microposts! I based this off of Twitter, but it’s actually supposed to be a Facebook alternative (because…anyone who’s been here long enough knows how I feel about Facebook [1][2][3][4]). So any short posts will just be considered a micropost.*
*I know WordPress has an aside post format just for this purpose, but I ended up using a custom post type for this, since I wanted it to be separate from the “regular” blog. Like how the photos are in their own separate blog (the photoblog).
Future:
I’m thinking of how I want the photoblog posts to look. Checking out some other photoblogs, getting ideas for flexibility (ex. so I can add more than one photo per post, have the photo(s) and text be intermixed with each other so I can post them in a more story-like fashion, etc).
Looking at other types of blogs one could create: audioblog? A videoblog??? 👀 Neither of these are blogs I be into actually running, but the possibilities are endless.
GPORG’s purpose as a blog is shifting more towards the blogs from 15+ years ago, with the RSS feeds, etc (minus the comments–ditched the comments entirely. Got no time to moderate that), while combining some aspects of today’s social media (hashtags, anyone?). I kind of miss when everyone had blogs. Now almost everyone moved to social media. :/
A friend and I were in a city that was being invaded by demons and ghouls. We decided to use music to make them go away, and each bought an electric guitar from a music store. We thought maybe we could play Cura, (forgot the name of the second song) and Curaga, healing spells from the Final Fantasy games. The idea was that the healing properties of the songs would cancel out the undead nature of the bad guys and finish them off. I don’t know about my friend but I didn’t have any experience with playing music (ex. didn’t know what a chord was until a little while ago and didn’t understand the point). So I wasn’t sure if this would work and just enrage them further due to my bad playing.
My (literal) dream guitar
I then woke up and decided to get into guitar anyway and went to a guitar store. These two guys were at the counter when I showed up and I told them what I was looking for. They didn’t say anything and just looked at me expectantly. I got annoyed, thinking what I have to do this myself now? I demanded “WELL ARE YOU GOING TO HELP ME OR WHAT”. They both agreed to help me but the one sitting directly in front of me had to do some employee stuff so the other guy helped me. I repeated what I said before (“I’m a complete noob with guitar so something that’s easy to play would be best. But I generally prefer quality over ease of play”), and realized maybe I never actually told them what I was looking for out loud, and only said it my head, which is why they were waiting for me to say something. I felt bad but the store employee didn’t seem offended and was like “ah got it”.
He went over to look at their current stock and two of guitars he inspected looked like the same exact bright blue in my dream. I grew hopefully, thinking maybe I could have the same one from my dream. But he put them down and instead picked up another with a pale wood finish and said “with guitars, it’s better to have ease of play over quality” and proceeded to get the wood one ready for purchase.
My soon-to-be (very literal) dream guitar
I agreed and then noticed as he was gathering the parts, how dinged up it looked from far away. I thought “bleh, I hope I get a discount with this”. And also wondered if what he said about ease of play vs. quality was true and couldn’t help but think that he only picked the wood one just to get rid of it.
And then I woke up for real.
And noo this didn’t make me want to get into guitar for real. I actually tried taking up violin when I was a kid, despite having no musical background. And violin is probably one of the last things I should’ve tried. So…it didn’t go well. It lasted for 3 weeks, and I only listen to music but actually have no interest in playing it.
1. In Discord’s user settings, go to Windows Settings and enable (yes enable, read on) Open Discord.
2. In Task Manager, go to the Startup tab (click More Details at the bottom left of the window if you don’t see it).
3. Look for something called Update.
4. You should probably verify that this is in the Discord folder by checking the file location through the Properties window.
5. If it is, disable it and close Task Manager.
The Open Discord option needs to be checked in user settings, otherwise you won’t be able to find Discord anything in Task Manager’s Startup tab.
Long looooooong version….
One problem I kept running into when installing Discord on Windows 10 was that it would autostart, no matter what I had in my settings. (And I don’t exactly have a fast computer, so waiting 3+ minutes for it to “check for updates” wasn’t ideal.)
Whenever I looked this problem up online, every single tutorial said to go to Users Settings > Windows Settings and uncheck Open Discord. And sometimes you might have to open Task Manager, go to More Details so the Startup tab shows up, and disable Discord through there.
So, I went into my user settings in Discord, and noticed Open Discord was unchecked.
Definitely unchecked
Then I went to Task Manager > Startup tab to see if I could disable it from there. But…
No Discord here
There was nothing here for Discord. 😶 And the next 100 or so tutorials I found online repeated the same exact steps I read previously (disable through Discord’s user settings and/or disable in Task Manager).
Somewhere around here, I crankily noticed this thing called Update and that the publisher was Github? I opened up the properties window to see what folder it resided in…
YUP. So Update needs to be disabled in Task Manager.
Only problem is it checks for updates whenever you first start your computer, and I don’t know if this happens for me (because of slow Internet), but it takes about 3+ minutes to check for updates. No idea if it’s possible to just disable it or make it shorter. 🤨
