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1.
this week a lot of my fedi-posting was about ao3 skins. prior to 6 days ago the amount of css I knew added up to approximately nothing, but I have spent a truly astounding number of hours over the last several days teaching myself css via trying to alter/create an ao3 skin that meets all my needs.
I did already have an ao3 skin I was using, yes, but it was a hodgepodge of snippets of code for very specific things which I'd taken from a variety of sources, and which in the process of doing the things I wanted, caused a variety of other livable-but-frustrating problems. So I was like....time to start from scratch, find skin code shared by someone else that's properly functional, and then graft in the other changes I want to make, to get the perfect skin!
hahahaha at this point I've changed so much that it's barely the same skin as the one I used as my base. and I know enough to be able to recognize hints of the ways in which ao3's codebase is a disaster lurking beneath the surface, as I've had confirmed by other people who know more about code than me.
also it's obnoxious that your skin when saved in ao3, does not preserve any of your code's comments. and I've been told by others that ao3 skins do not support a lot of modern css either!
Anyway, I keep on being like "I'm almost done with my skin code!" and then discovering that making THIS improvement has broken the formatting of THAT other thing on a different page. to be clear, a lot of what I'm doing at this point is visual tweaks on the level of a few pixels, to try to make various elements look their best. I could stop at any time!
but I won't. because I'm me. and it's infuriating when I can't get an element to have a reasonable margin in relation to another element it's near! I WILL PERSEVERE.
currently I have four items on my list of things I still want to fix or adjust. but we shall see if doing any of those borks anything else, or if I discover something else that I want to change!
2.
I really am a person who like... you demonstrate to me that there's something I do not know or understand, and immediately I need to fix that. everything can become interesting! let me at it!!
an incomplete list of things I wanted to know on one day this weekend:
- how to use the base-12 way of doing math on your finger joints
- the hungarian language
- the full history of the development of the Chinese writing system
- how to code in css
- how to identify hawks in flight by their shape and motion
- the taxonomy of glass insulator types
- how to tie a variety of useful knots for all occasions
- whether it'd be practicable for me to collect enough milkweed fluff to make use of its properties as stuffing/insulation in clothes, blankets, or cushions
- how the angle and curve of a knife blade affects the ways in which it's best used
- how hot chocolate manufacturers manage to incorporate powdered milk that reconstitutes in hot water, when powdered milk only works in cold water in my experience
3.
APPARENTLY when I lived with my sister during the height of my Hungarian musical theatre fandom fervour, back in 2012-2015 or so, she heard all about the musical Elisabeth but doesn't remember me ever talking about the musical Rómeó és Júlia! this is genuinely baffling to me because I adored both of those musicals about equally -- did I simply talk about r és j less for some reason, or did it stick in her memory less for some reason, or what?!
at any rate it might be a decade later now but I still feel a great deal of fondness for both those musicals, as well as for the fandom of the time. That was such a great fannish experience to have.
(can't believe I no longer remember the hungarian word for syphilis anymore though lol! it's amazing what specific vocabulary you pick up when you are only hearing a language in the context of musicals like these)
this week a lot of my fedi-posting was about ao3 skins. prior to 6 days ago the amount of css I knew added up to approximately nothing, but I have spent a truly astounding number of hours over the last several days teaching myself css via trying to alter/create an ao3 skin that meets all my needs.
I did already have an ao3 skin I was using, yes, but it was a hodgepodge of snippets of code for very specific things which I'd taken from a variety of sources, and which in the process of doing the things I wanted, caused a variety of other livable-but-frustrating problems. So I was like....time to start from scratch, find skin code shared by someone else that's properly functional, and then graft in the other changes I want to make, to get the perfect skin!
hahahaha at this point I've changed so much that it's barely the same skin as the one I used as my base. and I know enough to be able to recognize hints of the ways in which ao3's codebase is a disaster lurking beneath the surface, as I've had confirmed by other people who know more about code than me.
also it's obnoxious that your skin when saved in ao3, does not preserve any of your code's comments. and I've been told by others that ao3 skins do not support a lot of modern css either!
Anyway, I keep on being like "I'm almost done with my skin code!" and then discovering that making THIS improvement has broken the formatting of THAT other thing on a different page. to be clear, a lot of what I'm doing at this point is visual tweaks on the level of a few pixels, to try to make various elements look their best. I could stop at any time!
but I won't. because I'm me. and it's infuriating when I can't get an element to have a reasonable margin in relation to another element it's near! I WILL PERSEVERE.
currently I have four items on my list of things I still want to fix or adjust. but we shall see if doing any of those borks anything else, or if I discover something else that I want to change!
2.
I really am a person who like... you demonstrate to me that there's something I do not know or understand, and immediately I need to fix that. everything can become interesting! let me at it!!
an incomplete list of things I wanted to know on one day this weekend:
- how to use the base-12 way of doing math on your finger joints
- the hungarian language
- the full history of the development of the Chinese writing system
- how to code in css
- how to identify hawks in flight by their shape and motion
- the taxonomy of glass insulator types
- how to tie a variety of useful knots for all occasions
- whether it'd be practicable for me to collect enough milkweed fluff to make use of its properties as stuffing/insulation in clothes, blankets, or cushions
- how the angle and curve of a knife blade affects the ways in which it's best used
- how hot chocolate manufacturers manage to incorporate powdered milk that reconstitutes in hot water, when powdered milk only works in cold water in my experience
3.
APPARENTLY when I lived with my sister during the height of my Hungarian musical theatre fandom fervour, back in 2012-2015 or so, she heard all about the musical Elisabeth but doesn't remember me ever talking about the musical Rómeó és Júlia! this is genuinely baffling to me because I adored both of those musicals about equally -- did I simply talk about r és j less for some reason, or did it stick in her memory less for some reason, or what?!
at any rate it might be a decade later now but I still feel a great deal of fondness for both those musicals, as well as for the fandom of the time. That was such a great fannish experience to have.
(can't believe I no longer remember the hungarian word for syphilis anymore though lol! it's amazing what specific vocabulary you pick up when you are only hearing a language in the context of musicals like these)
