this site lives at irisnet.online now!!! i will fight the crypto coin holding iris.net one day but this is fine

not much has happened with this site but i could not update this thing for a while because i was working on Another Thing and broke my build system for the cms to this and couldnt write stuff, i can now, i love creating elaborate deployment systems to update a site.

i might have more to share about it later, but the Thing is a system that will make it easier for me to build more sites in the future very quickly. im quite happy with it because it builds on everything i did with this site :)

i should really use this space for more than site updates like life updates would be cute, anyway trying something with the animations that will eventually need more work but at least its neat, moved the data context used for the blog previews and generation to purely build/server side so i hopefully can ship less of that data to the frontend

taking a break from backend hell to have some fun on frontend

• improved images in content to not have pixelated render
• added better indicators for external links and cleaned up styling a bit (i did not know box-decoration-break  was a thing)
• swapped out my svg loading strategy to inject svgs at build time, hopefully making them lighter and less jumpy
• added a fun scrolling overlay <3
• reenabled astros default view transitions, i disabled this ages ago because it felt unpredictable but hopefully things are better now

no one will ever notice this because there is no frontend change but rebased and migrated my entire cms stack to payload 3 in a docker container. when i started this project payload was still in version 2, but i just took so long that they changed entire major versions. i rant a lot about it in a blog post if you care to read

i wrote my first proper blog post! its about rss feeds because i want people to use my rss feed but also rss in general. you can read it here

this was also a good test of my typography and segment css, so ive made some adjustments there as a result, the text size was a bit small and the column width was a bit cramped so theyve just been bumped out

added a basic rss feed! will slowly be adding support for more of its features but i think rss is awesome, i also want to write a guide for getting started with it

completely rewrote the site from scratch :) this is about 2 years in the making, and the hope/reason for doing so is to make updating it stupid easy for me, as well as make it more maintainable and performant, and better/easier to design (if you liked the old design sorry)