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I love listening to other autistic nerds infodump about their interests :3

TLDR; Open source is still awesome and winning :3

Reminder that anthropic will not have control over Blender’s future development according to blender’s own funding policy.

From blender’s fund policy (emphasis added):^[2]

The Blender project sets its own strategic roadmap and yearly planning. This is done by the community of contributors together with the development and product leadership. When large donations come in, or when major organizations join the Fund, the existing planning can be accelerated or augmented, but the priorities themselves originate from the project.

Furthermore:

Corporate participation in the Development Fund does not imply alignment between Blender and the donor’s mission, products, or strategy.

If people want to worry about something, which is not a very fun thing to do imo 3:, worry about what Anthropic is using Blender for. The Blender Foundation is not going to develop whatever Anthropic wants and donations don’t give them the power to change what the community plans for Blender’s development.

Update (May 1st): The donation has changed from a Corporate Patron membership to a single donation. Additionally, “No generative AI functionality is currently available or planned to be integrated in Blender.”^[3]

Thinking about using Cloudflare’s access feature (I think that’s what it’s called) so that I can add a content editor to my site which pushes changes to the git repo for the site. Cuz it’s very difficult to edit the site on mobile, even though it’s technically possible by using GitHub for editing, but it’s not an easy experience. I want it to be as easy for me as editing Wikipedia while keeping the site static.

Alternatives I’ve Rejected

Editing in vscode is great because I can customize it for writing blog posts, but sadly I can’t get that experience on mobile. Another idea is using Obsidian, since it has a plugin that adds Git support so I could theoretically use that for editing content. Couple problems with that: it uses YAML for Markdown frontmatter and Zola (the static site generator I use) uses TOML. Technically Zola “supports” YAML, but that is intended for making porting from other website frameworks easier and is not recommended. Also, YAML is loosely specified so who knows if properties in Obsidian notes will be parsed the same way by Zola. Additionally, the Git plugin for Obsidian doesn’t have great support on mobile because it has to use an alternative, less mature Git implementation implemented in JavaScript (which can be buggy AFAIK), rather than using the system install of Git (which isn’t available on mobile).

I wonder if Obsidian plugins support WebAssembly? If so, the original implementation of Git could be used.

Conclusion

Hopefully I can find a pretty good markdown-based editor so I can use that and avoid implementing it myself. The ideal would be to create something that feels Obsidian’s text editor which is like a WYSIWYG editor that also lets you edit the source of the page. Idk how that would work with inline HTML. I probably will start with just basic text editor for the page source probably. Honestly I don’t know how I would map a URL to a source file (because Zola isn’t made for this) so the editor probably couldn’t even have an ‘edit’ button on pages. Really if I wanted to properly do this, I would have to use a ‘real’ web framework like Astro (which I’m thinking of using in the case I have enough ideas like this that I want to properly implement). But the MVP I’m imagining is good enough for making mobile editing not suck :3

“Schoolwork sucks, no dopamine for you! How about you spend four hours doing nothing and four hours failing to understand NGINX?”

I got the website up and running with GitHub pages! Now it doesn’t redirect to neocities :3 Pretty neat :p Also, the old neocities hosted version now redirects to the new domain. Yay :3

Cloudflare is like the best thing ever btw

New domain is newtbytes.cc :3 I bought the domain for with Cloudflare and omg i adore the features they offer!! Cloudflare’s plans are definitely one of the few software subscriptions nowadays that are very much worth the price and the subscription model. And you get so much for free!!

Only thing I’m worried about now is that I want to continue being on neocities, but I can’t afford to pay the $5/month so I can use a custom domain. That’s fine though, I’m technical enough that I can find a free way to host the site. I still think I want to participate in the social media-like side of neocities, so I technically still need a site on neocities to do that. Hopefully I could just set it up so that newtbytes.neocities.org redirects to newtbytes.cc, but I don’t know how to do that yet lol. We’ll see.

I also would love to get into homelabbing and hosting stuff for my website at home, though I don’t really have the hardware quite yet. Maybe I could buy a cheap old used laptop (<$50) or something, idk :3