nibblz.xyz

spent a… while… getting the backend set up on nest.. but now everything is up and running on the domain, and i can easily add new posts via sftp!!!

also did some other final things improving the markdown rendering, including line breaks, more heading levels, link underlines, images… etc…!! (which also meant the backend now serves images from a /assets url !!)

but with that… im done!!! :D

some tiny tiny little finishing touches!

• make text not wrap weirdly on the topbar on mobile
• sort posts in order of newest first (based on the timestamp thing in the metadata)
• made project cards not overly huge on desktop. it was. really big. oops
• made it so hovering over buttons on the my thoughts page still has the hover mouse cursor like any other button!!
• added fl studio to my list of software that i like. i added it to the images folder a long time ago and just … forgot about it i guess??

now.. everything should be good to ship, just gotta deploy the backend on nest! (and i promise ill make cooler stuff later… just getting warmed up… :P)

finishing(?) touches to the my thoughts section!

• post images can now be served from the backend! posts without an image will have a proper placeholder at some point, but for now… Biribiriuo.webp :P
• there is now a scrollbar if the contents of the post is big!
• improved the readability by making the background when a post is open more dark

the frontend part of the my thoughts section is now hooked up to the backend! posts are loaded from metadata sent from the server, and the post contents are now also from what is on the server!

also did some other minor things like

• fix newlines not rendering the way i wanted them to with my markdown
• actually include post date in the metadata of the .md files, just stored as a unix timestamp

still have a few more things to do with this feature like allowing there to be actual images from the server for each post, and making the post contents scrollable… which is important…!!!

got mosttt of the frontend stuff required for the my thoughts section! this includes…

• cards for each post! wraps nicely if the descriptions have different lengths/different screen sizes, etc
• the popup for when you open a note! blurs everything behind so you can read it
• markdown rendering with the marked library! this will take the text from the .md files on the server and render them in html! very awesome library :3

next, i’ll have to probably make some polishes to this ui.. and then hook it up to the backend!!!
(i’ll also have to add a few more pieces of metadata to each post, including the date it was created and an optional image to go along with it)

aaand back to my faaavorite type of programming… web dev…!!! (…. wink wink nudge nudge i dont like webdev :P)

but uh.. got a basic navbar going! i think all tailwindcss and svelte knowledge just immediately leaves my brain whenever i don’t use it for more than a day but. it redirects to the other links! it glows based on what page its actually on… its a component… and… yea!

the “my thoughts” section will be where all this post/blog stuff whatever will go! still haven’t added that frontend part yet… but that’s a later problem!

added the endpoint that fetches the contents of a post! this removes the title and description that is present at the top of the post, returning only the actual contents!!

starting the functionality of a blogging/posts system on my site!

right now im just getting back into the swing of things with programming (school has made me SO DAMN BURNT OUT OF EVERYTHING FOR THE PAST MONTH!!! AGH!!!), and have implemented a backend route to fetch .md files from a folder on the backend

this returns the name and description of the post, which will show up in a list of posts of some sort, they are declared in the first two lines of the md file, the rest is what is displayed in the actual post!

im using go for the backend (which is what i used last time i made something with a web backend, it was nice!!) with the gin library, so far, its awesome!!