NostraDavid's handcrafted website, with his articles and projects

This is my ~~handcrafted~~ Hugo-generated website. I post articles, bits of knowledge, projects and experimentations

If you want the source of this site (the static HTML, CSS, images and JS), check out the Github page

My work on the site has died down, due to a case of Empty Bank Account (don't worry, it's not contagious), not to mention I'm starting a Twitch Channel

If you want to know more about this site, check out the About page.

Changelog

Important changes and when they happened.

Initially things changed too drastically and too fast to keep a changelog, but I think it's time for one.

Everything previous the creation of this list has been copied from the Git history.

2020-08-15 Added (optional) syntax highlighting for Haskell in the Quick 'n Dirty Big O article
2020-08-07 Comment section on the front page is now hidding behind a button to improve load times.
2020-08-07 Removed Online tools that I regularly use, because you can find that information in the Knowledge Base
2020-08-07 Changed the links in the footer with the icons of the respective site
2020-08-07 Details (those clickable things with the ▶ symbol) can now be mass opened via a button
2020-08-07 Removed Regex Explanation, as it was too simple for my current knowledge. Maybe I'll revive it in an article
2020-08-07 Improved Slugify; it now removed duplicate -'s.

Older changelog

2020-08-06 Added Information for a secret project to the Knowledge Base
2020-08-04 Improved 404 Not Found page
2020-08-04 Changed the Article page into an actual list
2020-08-04 Changed the titles of a bunch of articles. URLs are still the same
2020-08-03 Added National 'warcry' table to the Knowledge Base
2020-07-26 Added Top Articles to frontpage
2020-07-26 Added Configuring JMeter for Neo4j article
2020-07-16 Added Changelog to frontpage
2020-07-16 Added Knowledge Base page
2020-07-15 Created 𝔊𝔢𝔯𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔦𝔷𝔢𝔯 (Germanizer) project
2020-07-15 Created Text to Emoji project
2020-07-13 Added Hardware page
2020-07-08 Removed PWA functionality (updating was too much of a pain)
2020-07-07 Titles are now linkable (via a hash in the URL/section sign (§) combo)
2020-07-07 TODO now has timestamps
2020-07-06 Added Hyvor comment system to frontpage
2020-07-04 Added Google Analytics to the site (With a cookie notification. Wish I didn't need it, but they're legally required)
2020-07-03 Added footer links
2020-07-03 Added metadata to the frontpage for Facebook and Twitter, so when posting a link to FB/T you get a nice looking card
2020-07-02 Added Random Video page (it contains a few of my favorite videos)
2020-07-01 Added an image of the most important person since the existence of nations to the GitHub repo
2020-07-01 Added Reddit's T-values article
2020-06-30 Added /g/'s programming projects article
2020-06-12 Added (Static) sitemap.xml
2020-06-11 Added search and archive functionality to 404 page
2020-06-11 Added PWA functionality! Site can now be used, even if you don't have any internet connection available!
2020-06-11 Added Experimentations page
2020-05-09 Added old articles from my old blog
2020-05-09 Added Slugify project
2020-05-09 Added Starfield project
2020-05-09 Added MSTG project
2020-05-09 Added ROT13 project
2020-05-09 Added history images, for Thaumatorium.com and a SON experiment, to the repo (but not the site)
2020-05-09 Added extension recommendations for when you open the thaumatorium.github.io folder (for when you download the repo)
2020-05-03 Replaced the bare Elm version of this site with the static HTML - including some easter eggs :^)
Between these times I've read the HTML Living Standard and most of the CSS spec (that's CSS 2.1 + the separate 'blocks' that either replace or add to CSS 2.1 - that's CSS 3, basically)
2019-10-24 Got the Elm version of the site working
2019-09-27 Creation of the repo that hosts this site with a very simple static index.html

TODO

The date you see is date created, not edited or done

2020-08-15 Write a script for a World of Warcraft guide for beginners. Pros/cons of races. Pros/cons of classes (and specialties). Settings you want to look at. What else? Check /r/wownoob for inspiration. Tip: Don't just write text. Describe the scene too.
2020-08-15 Figure out how to generalize the syntax highlighting from the Big O article.
2020-08-14 rewrite the Quick 'n dirty Big O article. I think I've outgrown it.
2020-08-14 Figure out how Qwibus Amersfoort has their nav menu on Google
2020-08-11 Create an "htmlest" page, that contains *all* HTML elements, in a sensible way. Ofcourse add a ton of comments to explain the element names (like dt, dl, etc)

older TODO

2020-08-10 Create World of Warcraft TODO so I can plan the things I still want to do/play/find
2020-08-08 Move Changelog and TODO to their own pages, but keep the top 5 or so on the FP.
2020-08-07 Create an article that explains basic Twitch emotes (monkaS/monkaW, pepeD/pepeJAM/catJAM, WutFace, etc)
2020-08-07 Add a Settings page where the user can change cookie settings - show which cookies are set, show how the user can check which cookies are set for Chrome/Edge/Firefox, etc
2020-08-07 Enable the use of query strings and cookies to manipulate how the site looks (enable/disable comments, enable disable disclaimers)
2020-08-04 Add FB/Twitter metadata to all other pages, especially the Template page.
2020-08-04 Add canonical links to all other pages (other than the frontpage).
2020-08-04 Create an article where I explain how I created this site. Use keywords to improve the pull to this site.
2020-08-04 Add meta tag for keywords to each page. <meta name="keywords" content="Keyword1, Keyword2, Keyword3"> At the very least it won't hurt.
2020-08-03 Create a Twitch addon that shows a counted and then sorted list of emotes from chat: [12x LULW, 6x LUL, 4x Pogey, 4x KKomando, 4xlowZ, 1x asmonMcCool]
2020-08-03 Write an article that explains recursion, without using the word recursion: "How to loop without the for loop construct [RECURSION GONE WILD]"
2020-07-30 Write software reviews: Go in-depth into software. Don't just "oh you can do xyz". What are some neat features/options you can find deep in the depths of the menus? I can call it "Let's talk about X"
2020-07-25 Create a~~n Ubuntu~~ Bash Beginner Guide, with commands I wish I knew when I started. Try to make it 1 or 2 A4's large.
2020-07-16 Add a "saying of the refresh" where there's a translated Dutch saying/adage/proverb/aphorism
2020-07-16 Add a notification for unsupported browsers. This site assumes you have an updated browser (you can always check your browser's About menu)
2020-07-16 Create an article where I explain which vscode extensions that I use and why.
2020-07-07 Spread the OGP and Twitter card metadata around the other html files
2020-07-03 Add JSON/LD - Semantic Web stuff to the homepage
2020-07-03 Consider paypal.me
2020-07-03 Check my Spark files for article inspiration. I believe I was still going to write a letter to myself in 2009 (about how and where to start with programming)
2020-05-09 Gotta check out ARIA tags - they weren't really mentioned on WHATWG's Living Document

Done