# SUNRISE SUPRISE
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26-05-2024

a new day always comes back around. the sun is rising again,
                                                its a new age.
                                                   for me.

welcome back to spicata 99. its been a while, hasnt it?
things are a little different around here. quite obviously so


NUMBER ONE: i left the town

    its nothing against the town personally. its just no
    longer it, you know? and ive got my reasons, which i
    might reveal in the future, but as for now, thats all
    that you need to know.
    for those who are in the discord server, im not going
    anywhere, im staying there. but im going to stop 
    pretending that we actually get stuff done and that its
    meant to be a notes thing anymore.

    that means, for the first time in a long time, spicata
    99 is not a part of the town umbrella. im not endorsing
    it anymore.

    i am free? i guess?
    its nice i guess, i was kind of hard carrying
    for a long time, and now i dont need to.

    h ow
      fun!
         (cc chennings poetry right here)


NUMBER TWO: press

    im not longer using jekyll. it just didnt work? for some reason.
    so im kind of just abandoning it. i have no clue what
    the problem is, but it gem is just not letting me run it. like,
    i would install it using `bundle install` and it would run perfectly,
    but then when i go to actually run jekyll, it would just say
    that it's not installed. which im pretty sure it is.

    if you think you've got a fix to it, the repository is still up,
    so maybe check it out and get back to me if you know what the
    problem is.

    okay so turns out the source code repository is private so i
    guess its not getting fixed.

    i had a short run with zola, but there were some quirks with it
    that i just couldnt figure out, especially with the themes. and
    while these same problems were in jekyll, it had much better
    documentation, so i could actually figure out. but with zola, the
    documentation leaves a lot to be desired, and so i decided not to
    use it.

       which this kind of highlights a problem i have 
       with a lot of ssg's: they are overly complex
       for things that should be pretty simple, like
       making a just text website.

       like, hugo, jekyll, and zola and co are all cool
       but do i need all this special yaml frontmatter
       and special _directories and templates and other
       stuff for things that really don't need it?

       so i made press just... work. like how you'd expect.
       its simple, and it works.


              also, there was another influence to this whole thing:
              oldernow from tilde.town and nightfall.city. they use a
              whole pre-thing for their website (only their index though),
              and ... well, you know, i agree.
              
              https://tilde.club/~oldernow/

              i also got kind of sick of writing html and css.

              so i just copied them, kind of. they don't use
              anchor elements, because "well, do you really
              need them?" to which i answer, yes. yes i do.

              they are just there for convenience, so be glad
              that i didnt completely remove all html. also
              i love links. probably a carry over from my
              digital garden and zettlekasten days.

  so yeah. we are here now.
  this is how its going to be
  until press+ comes.


IN CONCLUSION

so you know how developers 'sunset' apps once they've reached their end of life?
well, im sunrising spicata 99.
       its a new day