august 2020: new server, new site

week 2

tuesday, august 4

• CentOS VPS obtained through OVH. Always wanted a server.

wednesday, august 5

• Design the website
• Prototype of website running on the server

thursday, august 6

• Create some placeholder graphics, articles + CSS
• Add a Twitter timeline embed

friday, august 7

• Decide to use PHP for manage Blessfrey's blog
• Set up a local Apache server for practice. It was a little confusing!
• Wrote a vaguely functioning Hello World script in PHP

saturday, august 8

• Added images to live site despite conflicts with Linux's security

week 3

sunday, august 9

• Studied PHP with W3Schools

monday, august 10

• Studied PHP with W3Schools

saturday, august 15

• Made a Python script that spits out new skill scenes for Godot after answering a little command line questionnaire. I could make it an plugin for the engine, but it would be a lot slower to develop + functionally no better.
• Maybe I can rewrite it later in JSON, since Godot can read JSON.

week 4

monday, august 17

• Research PHP + MySQL while attending. I think MySQL is overkill for my purposes, since all my articles couldn't possibly be that much data. It might be interesting for analyzing data, though, like adding a word cloud of the most common tags or a search feature. I'll keep things simple for now.

august 18 - august 21

• Help run a FlightRising community event while trying out ArcheAge, since my friends play it.
• I told a friend I would play Go with him soon but was too busy with the raffle. Then someone told him I was online a lot in ArcheAge...oops...that looked bad lol. It wasn't like I played more than a few minutes at a time. I'm sorry, friend;;

saturday, august 22

• I work on pagination. The concept boggles my mind, but I can break it into pieces to solve like any other problem.

week 5

sunday, august 23

• I work on my friends' MMO some. I make my own branch and make my first changes. The work environment is Windows-only, and the server is live with active players. Pretty cool experience.

monday, august 24

• Still working on pagination in PHP to create a navigation bar for my development blog.

tuesday, august 25

• Play around with CSS + HTML for the website. The CSS Grid didn't exist the last time I used CSS (for 2000s petsite profiles), so I'm more comfortable with floats. The Grid looks so worth learning, though, for more consistent and responsive web design.

wednesday, august 26

• Get the landing page looking okay while using the CSS Grid.