thinking about my ideal blog format

a subpost about the hexist writeup

my blogposts fall into 3 main categories:

  1. i made a thing
  2. i'm trying to do a thing
  3. i have opinions about a thing

a devlog is basically 1 + 2, but there's this balance between staying true to the process and having it flow well

motivation

the hexist devlog is a tangle of moldy spaghetti and i want to put it off for as long as i can

actually

is lasagna a better analogy? cos there's layers of history relevant rainworld echo dialogue

then now i could amend the first sentence to say

the hexist devlog is a tangle pile of moldy spaghetti lasagna

but that'd skip out on the original spaghetti and my thought process about replacing it

i like to think that i'm a good editor, but my problem is that i edit way too stuff that isn't even relevant to the content

premature optimization, if you may originally used "bikeshedding" then immediately after decided to swap it out

something something cleanup pass

(thoughts on) implementation

reader:

writer:

simplest impl would be to separate concise and history

so split an editor pane, edit the writeup and append to history at the same time

problem is that it is essentially the same content, just with different verbosity levels did i just go down a rabbithole trying to figure out how to add alt text so that i could make a -vvv joke apparently my unvisited link highlight as of 21/12/2024 is too low-contrast? fascinating

hmmm right yes, chronology

so history is the process of putting together the final concise writeup

but i think it's fun to read about the process too...

but...

what if i'm looking at this the wrong way?

what if the format i need is one that allows me to express myself best?

this blog isn't for hosting documentation, it's for my logs of stuff-doing! so i should be writing in a way that im happy with

... and im definitely not happy with the hexist writeup as is, that's in need of a good de-molding

layers of history huh

ooooh page revisions would be nice

kinda like those fancy scp entries

dig up from the git history

though that makes typos weird

flag rev in commit message?

eh ill figure it out

TO BE CONTINUED (if i remember)


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