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Hierarchical Navigation Bar

As you should be able to see above, I’m experimenting with a two-level navigation bar.

Originally this was going to be “Blog”-style posts vs “Site”-style pages (mostly uni stuff from my old RMITCS site), but it’s morphed into “Blog” vs “Projects”. Hopefully both of them will get more varied content in the future.

I’m not really happy with the style from either a aesthetic or technical point of view and may create my own lightweight Nikola style for the site, with some nicer multi-level navigation. In particular, I would like to get rid of all site-wide Javascript dependencies, with just the occasional game or similar form-interactive pages that use JS.

Videos of my Final Research Presentation

While looking through some old USBs I’ve discovered a recording of the final presentation of my Honours Research in late 2014. I had believed this was completely lost, like the video of my BSDCan presentation which was not successfully recorded due to technical issues.

The video files have been put on my ZFS research page. The orignals are shot in profile on a 2013 era smartphone and the volume is very low - I might to try and clean them up a bit, but very glad to have the files regardless.

Small Site Retheme, and some File Size info

Inspired by some Solarpunk Lemmy discussion especially Smolweb.org I had a look at the overhead of my Nikola site theme and was suprised by how heavy the JS and CSS was even though it was barely doing anything.

Thus, I’ve switched to the lighter base theme for both my personal site and Research Site. These still contain (post-compression) 9.5 KB of CSS and 4.1 KB of JS, which still seems quite excessive but it’s a big improvement for minimal effort on my part.

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didyouknowthatyoucanhaveonlysixty-threecharactersinadomainlabel.net is moving to didyouknowthatyoucanhaveonlysixty-threecharactersinadomainlabel.dylanleigh.net

To save US$20 per year on a domain name for a 20 year old joke, I’m moving the three sentence index page at http://didyouknowthatyoucanhaveonlysixty-threecharactersinadomainlabel.net/ to a subdomain of this site, http://didyouknowthatyoucanhaveonlysixty-threecharactersinadomainlabel.dylanleigh.net/ . There’s a redirect in place at the old site for now, but I’ll probably let the domain expire when it is due for renewal.

Returning Home(page)

So, no updates for over two years.

I’ve been very unwell to the point I need assistance to do even basic household tasks like cleaning and preparing meals. Unfortunately I’ve already used the title “Rumours of my death have been slightly exaggerated” back in 2018, and it wasn’t even the last post I had to make on this topic.

While most of my life is a complete mess, I do have a few ideas about being able to actually get some more stuff I’ve done posted online.

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Disability and Rarity of Updates

Haven’t made any updates to this site or my “new” blog in over a year until I cleaned up and posted this biology article a few days ago. Even before then, I hadn’t made a post talking about my disabilities and past and how badly it affects my ability to get things done.

This post (originally on the new blog) will explain some of those issues, what I’ve been up to since last year, and what I might be able to do in the future.

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Cooking Reference Tables and New Blog

At the start of the year I started assembling some cooking reference tables - reference lists of cooking times, types of fillings, sauces, doughs, herbs and spices used in different cuisines, etc. I never got around to finishing the doughs and sauces, and I was going to wait until they were all done before “announcing” it. But it looks like it’s not going to get done anytime soon, so this post is the belated and incomplete announcement.

Due to my tardiness in making updates here, I’m considering creating a new blog-type site where I can have a fresh start and post little snippets every now and then.