And the ultimate bloging begins

I am using this as an opportunity to really dust off the blog and rewrite some beloved old posts, which means I'm going through each one manually. This does, however, mean things has been slow work. Especially since I am doing this totally from scratch. So I am compromising and publishing updates in chunks instead of leaving the blog offline for months to come.

I could use all the support I can get here, folks, cos in the end on top of trying to move away from Patreon I'm basically shooting myself in the feet and making new better feet just because I hate Tumblr THAT much. I hope this is worth it. Please god

posting to voice interest in the blog having an rss feed again at some point, no rush of course but the interest Is There

(03-08-2024, 10:13 PM)huckleton Wrote: posting to voice interest in the blog having an rss feed again at some point, no rush of course but the interest Is There

ok it's been a week and I haven't re-added the rss feed . but I have a lot on my plate so

MORE BLOG I made myself some scripts to make this whole process faster and easier for me. Now we are getting into seasonally appropriate posts (Lie)

And Cool I only just noticed the "Posted by brilokulojon" on the front page I'll fix it later. please god I just need sleep one day

MORE BLOG only two new posts, but a lot of behind the scenes work.

• I like my new individual chat display (see wings article)
  
• I don't know why categories aren't sorting correctly, I'll get to that.
  
• Category/tag pagination is stupid right now
  
• But you can look at tags at all now Betcha didn't know there were tags. Well there are.
  

some more throwback articles, gonna start actually listing them in this thread as they get added now that they've been knocked off the front page

• Nintendo’s Play Station discovered by chance
  
• Wendy’s Baconator Fries
  
• Little Caesars Soft Pretzel Crust Pizza
  
• Naut
  
• Taco Bell’s Grilled Stuft Nacho
  
• Arby’s Jalapeno Hushpuppies
  

• Popeyes Hushpuppy Butterfly Shrimp 
  
• Popeyes Rip’n Chicken 
  
• Taco Bell Dare Devil Grillers 
  
• Taco Bell’s Lava Sauce
  

• Croc’s Spooky Moments
  
• Trader Joe’s Ghost Pepper Chips
  
• XXTra Flamin’ Hot Cheetos
  

I spent most of today working on a script to make this conversion process faster so hopefully I'll be able to churn out more going forward. I'd like to turn it into a daily event if I wasn't in a state of agony.

• 3D Monster Maze
  
• [/url]Popeyes Wild Pepper Tenderloins
  
• Donkey Kong Country’s Spooky Moments
  
• Ecco the Dolphin’s Spooky Moments
  
• Banjo Kazooie’s Spooky Moments
  
• Tomba!'s Spooky Moments
  
• [url=https://blog.eggware.xyz/retro/spooky-tomba/]Super Mario 64’s Spooky Moments
  

And that's October 2015 down! I also finally fixed embeds on Discord!

So, fun fact, this was Eggware's very first Halloween season and started the tradition of me playing ~spooky~ ~nightmare fuel~ video games every year. I have a soft spot for these articles, they were admittedly pretty sensationalist, but... c'mon man, we were 10 years younger.

Kind of funny to see it sandwiched in between yet another article about Popeyes' homogeneous but gloriously affordable chicken boxes. IT'S NOT FAIR

bro I was gonna fix that last post but I opened it up and the code looks like this somehow and I just.. I just can't right now

• Twilight Sparkle’s Secret Shipfic Folder: A Postmortem
  
• The Ultimate Chicken Sandwich Showdown
  
• Taco Bell Steak and Potato Boss Wrap
  
• Little Caesars - The Experience
  
• Nintendo’s Play Station confirmed real, plays games
  
• Viridi
  
• Oases
  
• I am dead where are my keys
  
• Animal Inspector
  

This has been giving me the opportunity to go through and edit my indie game review series, so in the end the blog is finally getting more content! I purged those things ages ago because I felt like I was getting a little too up my own ass from the power of Game Journalism.

Funny story: despite how much care and consideration I put into that MLP article, not unlike defusing a bomb, I still received a comment from a pissed-off brony once. It was one word long and I just can't remember if it was "Cope" or "Nope".

Way, way, way too many to list. I'm up to 2020 now. I probably will be done in a few more days but I wanted to publish this ASAP because some of the real classics are back, like Burger Jones and Mini Cheddars and my alcoholism plotline.

The deed is fucking done.

So what exactly did this entail that it took me nearly 3 months? Other than the realities of life...

• I wrote a script to turn a Wordpress database dump into individual files.
  
• I wrote a script to convert those into Markdown.
  
• I kept having to adapt that script because Wordpress frequently changes.
  
• I wrote alt text for EVERY SINGLE IMAGE, because the blog did not have alt text until last year.
  
• I had to go through 2020. That sucked.
  

And what more is there to do...

• Better navigation for categories, tags, series, etc
  
• Move my personal blog posts onto here when/if I feel like they're interesting
  
• Get back to moving Patreon posts onto here
  
• NEXT BIG PROJECT: figuring out how to make a site for Patreon-locked content
  

I'm gonna go lay down. Thanks for your neverending patience.

we're so back

BURGER JONES SWEEP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!