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January 13th, 2026 - Javascript

First sort of blog post of 2026. Speaking on blog posts you might've seen me messing with these a bit earlier. I attempted to use zonelets before realizing it was too much of a fucking hassle and then I attempted to simply change the sidebar navigation to an iframe and then gave up. Eventually I'd like to find some better way to do and display these blog posts, preferably just embed something into the site, kinda like the status.care, but for now it's staying like this. Maybe I'll give zonelets another try some time.

I've been thinking a lot about how I'm gonna redesign the website, currently I'm just in the process of listing out what needs to be on what page and such. Though I decided to spend this week focusing on going through the freecodecamp Javascript lessons. Now that I think about it this is probably something I should put in my Now section that could use an update now that the years turned over. Gotta say though I'm not sure on how much I'll be updating the site while I work on the v3 behind the scenes. I probably will somewhat just to help with figuring things out in the v3 like file sizes and such perhaps but I worry if I update and add too much it'll take away from working on the v3 as well as other things I could be doing. Though I'll still be adding my art to the site so I have to consider more and more what to do about space. One of my goals with this website is to try to keep it under 1GB as much as possible, mostly cause while I love neocities I don't like subscription services and want to avoid having to get one as much as possible.

One thing I've been doing is converting the thumbnails in the art archive to webp and avif. I know a lot of people talk these formats like they're the devil and I'm not big on them either since there's definitely some degree of loss in the format conversion but I figure for things like thumbnails and maybe even older art I just don't care for it's not that big a deal. Honestly the traditional art photos I've had on my website have all been webp already and then optimized through EZGif to save on space, if I didn't do that I'd have already hit the 1GB limit already for sure.

Honestly though when I redesign the art archive for the v3 I might end up changing the thumbnails again so I'm perhaps doing this for nothing but I don't know, I'm figuring things out. The art archive probably needs the most amount of work honestly and is part of why I'm learning javascript myself. I appreciate the code I'm using and the person who made it for creating something I could use for a bit but I'd be lying if I said it was good code. Even from my minimal understanding I can read through the code and understand quite a bit of problems, at one point when looking through with my friend Rick they noticed there was a console.log that was printing out every single image in the gallery to the console. It's definitely a mess and i think instead I want to try making it myself that way I can customize it more to my needs and desires.

Rick is actually working on a gallery code that has similar functionality to the one in my archive though it's intended for a website with more of a backend in crystal rather than neocities with javascript but I'll probably have that for reference so even my own version will still not be entirely just me. I personally would like functionality like being able to select tags that can be hidden, I think it'd be nice if say someone's looking at my porn and wants to hide everything with the noncon tag for example. I'd also like if instead of each thumbnail is an individual image I could have collection of images that can be arrowed through kind of like how I have the curated gallery pages set up as well as similarly having more detailed information like date created, license, etc. Speaking of that's another code I'll probably try to rewrite on my own, currently it's just the tabbing code I stole from w3 schools edited to fit there.

I do worry about working on my site and working on my art conflicting with one another in terms of time. For example to focus on learning Javascript this week I decided to forgo doing any art stuff, sure once the weeks over even if I've got a lot in this course left I'll go back to focusing on art stuff with learning as a backburner but it's still like, can I manage these that well together. This is probably why I see people use static site generators but I wasn't aware those were a thing when I originally created this site and I am the type to try to have as much control over my site as possible, though obviously I like having some shortcuts like how I'm looking into some sort of blog service to embed instead of how this is currently set up lol. Though I suppose having the v3 version of my website done would definitely get it out of the way and I can focus just on art and it'd likely be easier to manage. I love having my own personal site it makes me happy and I think everyone should have a personal site but if I have to choose between my site and my art I'd choose my art.

Though without a personal site to put my art on I'd probably be kind of miserable, like sure I can post on bluesky and I post on my fediverse account but I don't like bluesky honestly and it's just not the same, these aren't websites made for art. There's sheezy and I do think sheezy is the most promising of art sites but it's still so flawed in it's structure, it also kind of loads really slow for me, it has rules against noncon which means I wouldn't even be able to put a lot of my pornographic work on there, and I've talked before about my issues with it's moderation. I like having a website where I can just slap a warning on the index page and have everything in once place. I think if there was a better art site around I'd feel less bad about maybe slacking on this site a bit. I actually recently read a good blog post about the death of deviantart that I think is worth a read it also mentions sheezy at one point.

With learning javascript I'll also be able to make my own desktop applications, I think I talked about this in my 2025 recap but I'd like to make some kind of image board desktop application, just for myself not public release. Though I also saw this thing called refern which I had not heard of until they shut the website down but they're currently working on a desktop application and if that comes out before I get to that I may give up on that idea and just use that lol. If I can be honest I don't think I like programming really, it's kind of like cooking which is another thing I don't like doing, but I like the end product more than I hate the process.

So why do I code? Why bother trying to learn programming at all? There's a couple reasons, the first one being I'm kind of an idiot who does things the hard way. I notice a lot of people use static site generators I had never heard of those until last year and every time I attempt to read about them my brain starts to scream in agony it just feels easier to my brain to code my website myself even if it's actually more effort. Second reason is I like how much control it gives me, I like being able to get everything exactly how I want it. Third and probably last is like I said, I like the output more than I hate the process, even moreso than cooking which I compared it to, at least with programming I'm not limited to what little we have in the house. Sure there's services like fucking carrd or idk wix squarespace whatever? that let you make webpages and shit but they're very limited especially if you don't have money which I don't have money. Also wix is zionist and are the bitches that killed deviantart if you're out there telling people to use wix I do not respect you.

I could probably make a whole thing sometime on my hatred for paywalls but that's for another time. I think that's all I have to say this blog post. Honestly writing this was more procrastination on working on getting through this javascript course but ah well. Probably might skip on doing any future blog posts until i can get things figured out I don't know pain in the fucking ass right now piece of shit goddamn.