This is a test of RSS https://clygro.cc/blog/1.html Mon, 01 Nov 2021 0:16:50 +0000 1800 Here is some text containing an interesting description. https://clygro.cc/blog/2.html Mon, 01 Nov 2021 00:18:20 +0000 I got this working first time somehow, yay!!! https://clygro.cc/blog/3.html Mon, 01 Nov 2021 00:25:05 +0000 As you may have noticed, there have been changes to my website. I'll eventually be making a whole redesign of the website, including a mobile version of the website too. But so far, I have done: Add a nice Favicon, Fixed the layout for the backgrounds page, and also in preparation for the mobile website, I have made a version of the UNTP designed for mobile, not everything is done mostly because I couldn't work out on how to do it myself, hopefully I'll do it at a later date with some research. You can go to the mobile version at https://clygro.github.io/tab-mobile. https://clygro.cc/blog/4.html Sat, 01 Jan 2022 12:47:56 +0000 Hello people, it has been a while since I have done a post here, quite a bit has happened since the last post, so I'll talk about it. Firstly, a preview of the new Clygro Website is out, it is designed to have better compatibility with older browser, and browser that don't support all of the features, such as NetSurf or Servo. The new website can be accessed at https://clygro.github.io/indexnew.html it follows the system theme, there are now gradients featured in the navigation bar, code blocks and the footer, if the browser doesn't support it, it will show a solid colour instead. Now onto a different topic, my YouTube channel, so I have been YouTube for over 6 years now, but in 2022 I have started to put a bit more effort into my channel, the videos have thumbnails that have borders that distinguish the type of the video and having a clear title and other relevant stuff in the thumbnail, I'll be retrofitting these thumbnails onto my older videos. Another thing that I have also properly started to do in 2022 is subtitles, they help make videos more accessible, according to YouTube Studio, 7.9% of viewers use my subtitles in the last 28 days, and 8% in the lifetime of my channel, which is 6 years by the way. Having subtitles even on just some of my videos definitely has helped boost the view counts (especially the Firefox tutorials) I plan to subtitle all my videos that are less than 20 minutes by the end of 2022 and all my videos by the end of 2023. From now on, all my new videos will be subtitled. Another thing that I'm planning to do is do special themed weeks where I upload daily for a week with all the videos having a common theme, 2 ideas that I came up with is Linux Week and Legacy iOS Week, I'll probably do them at the last week of the month or maybe the first week, it's still yet to be decided. Onto the final thing to do with video content, I'm planning to join a PeerTube instance, for those unaware, PeerTube is a decentralised video sharing website, no one is in control of all of it, people host their own servers, and people can make accounts on them, and then watch from different servers. I think it's quite cool, especially with the fact that videos can be synced with YouTube, it's definitely worth doing, and I'll be doing it in the near future when I find an instance to settle on. Another thing related to decentralised social media, I have a Mastodon and a Pixelfed account, for those unaware Mastodon is like Twitter but decentralised (the correct word is federated, but shhh) people can like, boost, follow, and view people from other instances, also all my posts on there are bridged onto Twitter and my Tweets also appear onto my Mastodon. Another cool thing is that Mastodon can also communicate with other social websites using ActivityPub, such as Misskey, Pleroma, and Pixelfed, which I mentioned earlier. Because I now have a Pixelfed account as well, for those unaware, Pixelfed is another federated social media, however unlike the other 3 websites mentioned, Pixelfed resembles Instagram than Twitter, which is quite cool, as Instagram is owned by a spyware corporate entity. So having an alternative to that is very nice. My Mastodon can be found at https://mastodon.online/@clygro and my Pixelfed can be found at https://pixelfed.social/clygro Another thing that I have been doing in 2022 is ALT Text, ALT Text is a description of an image, which can be useful for people with screen readers, it can also tell the google engines what are in the images, so it can appear on more relevant search results, and it can be useful for people with slow connections where the image takes a while to load, or if the image has become invalid, so there's quite a few use cases for it. So, I have used it for the backgrounds page on my website, my Mastodon/Twitter posts. Neither on Twitter or Mastodon gives me any statistics on how many people click the ALT text button/have it read, which is a shame, but I do think it's useful, and it barely takes up any time to write, and would help a lot of people. So, there's pretty much everything you need to know, hopefully I'll do these a bit more often in the future and it also being a bit more consistent too. https://clygro.cc/blog/5.html Sun, 23 Oct 2022 00:43:37 +0100 Hello people, I here to announce the actual Clygro blog. I have only decided to start this yesterday. Additionally I have also done some layout tweaks to my new website layout, with my links on left and the recent blog posts. The website adjusts for smaller screens, which should mean it is better for mobile usage. Although on iOS 15.6 on my iPhone 8 Plus it has problems rendering the background when in portrait, this is not even a problem on iOS 5.0.1 on my iPhone 4S in portrait mode, so I have no clue what is going on. Ignoring that weird issue, everything should be fine on mobile now. Onto the main bit I guess, the plans for the blog. So I am planning to do posts on a semi-regular basis, especially since I have quite a bit of free time until September. I currently do not have much to do, which is why I have been working on the website over the past day. I am planning to start a Clash of Clans custom server soon, but so far I have had no luck with it running it on Linux so far (I think I need to install all of the dependencies manually). I have started a podcast recently, currently it is only available on YouTube and PeerTube, but I am planning to add it to an RSS feed soon. I am also planning to try and launch a massive project somewhat soon. https://clygro.cc/blog/6.html Sun, 09 Jul 2023 21:04:00 +0100 Hello people, it has been a year since I introduced the blog, however I have not made any posts, so you might be asking "why is that the case?", the simple answer is I'm just really lazy, I did make an attempt to publishing the follow up blog post a while ago, but I forgot about it and never published it, this post is a whole new post by the way. The new website As you might've noticed there is a new website design, I effectively scrapped Clygro Website V6 in favour of V7 (the design you are seeing right now), the reason why was actually because of an assignment for the course I'm doing at college, it was to make a website (combined with a digital portfolio project), this website is the result of that, it is mostly unmodified from the one used for the assignment, apart from some personal information being removed and the 88x31 buttons and the various tweaks I have done since. I'm really quite proud with the website, I think it really is a love letter to skeuomorphism and it is a good reflection of the fact that I really enjoy the design of 2000s/early 2010s hardware and software. Design changes There are also some changes that I did from the original idea for V7, one of them is that I originally intended for the brushed metal texture to actually be a leather texture, like some posh notebooks, however this was changed because I couldn't really find a suitable permissively licensed asset for it, however I did find the really nice brushed metal I used instead. Another change is the tabs, they were orignally pointy and colour coded with the idea of having a leather texture, however this didn't happen as the college computers did not have Inkscape (to make the tabs pointy) so I just gave that up. Changes for "V7.5" I'm planning to do some more changes to the website, I'm either gonna call it V7.5 or V8 (likely V7.5) it won't be a complete redesign, however it will have the tabs more resemble the original design idea of being colour coded and pointy, also the current tabs already take up the entire width of the pane, so I do need to change the tabs to be smaller, which is what I plan on doing with V7.5. I also want to have the landing page be a bit more useful, I feel like the giant table should be relocated to somewhere like the projects page. I think I will have like some big buttons to the important pages and stuff too on the landing page. I do also want to fix the fact that the tab buttons don't actually function on some browsers (IE and Pale Noon iirc have this issue). That's all I really have planned for V7.5 which will be released at an unspecified time. My presence on the fediverse I have quite a large presence on fedi, I have my my Akkoma, I have my PeerTube, I have my Owncast, I have my mbin, however it is not quite that simple as of recently, the owner of the PeerTube I have been on for the past year has decided to push people away from the instance, seemingly due to costs, there is no way to contribute to funding to the instance, so effectively I'm homeless in terms of PeerTube, which is quite annoying as I want to properly start pushing PeerTube more than ever, I'm quite worried about moving instances as my videos currently total over 200GB of videos, so I can't really rapidly move, but also there is not many instances that offer to provide space. Just to make it clear, I'm willing to give a monthly donation to help fund the instance, but I have to find instances that allow me to pay using debit card instead of PayPal, which also does limit my options for instances, there is currently like 3 instances that I have my eye on moving to. Also I'm kinda scared to self host, as if something breaks (I'm not a server expert) than it would all be up to me to fix it, also I don't really have a server config to handle it right now (my VPS is like 300GB and my physical server has been sat out of service for over a year at this point). The end of daily videos To me this is old news, but I have stopped making daily videos at the end of February, I do not plan on going back to daily videos ever again, as they were very clearly prioritising quantity of quality, I have have been making longer higher quality videos since then and it has partially paid off with my first video getting over 100 views, my second with over 600, the third with over 300 and the fourth with 70 on YouTube which is definitely a higher average than when I was doing daily videos, the numbers are still a bit underwhelming though (especially 70 over the span of 2 weeks). I'm still in the process of recording a few more videos that will be released over the next few months. Progress on 4gro + a side project album I have slowly been making progress on 4gro (which I have 3 ideas for titles, one of them breaking the 3 letter rule, however is 3 words so it could just get abbrieviated), the lyrics and track listing have vaguely been planned, however I'm not very confident that the current tracklisting will be unmodified in the final release. I've not done really any recordings for a few weeks (with a few months before that) so I can't really give a real idea of the actual sound of the album. The side project album I have made a side project album, released under a different name, it is made exclusively of combining pre-cut beats, however when making it I did very much visualise a journey from some snowy mountains which I wish I could have appropiate visuals for it but it is very much not in my skills or capabilities unfortunately. The main reason it hasn't released is my laziness but also I keep on forgetting about the project, I started the side project back in late 2021 and only a few months ago I recorded their debut album. I try and follow up with a post when it releases.

Conclusion Hopefully you enjoyed this post that is the first proper blog post, hopefully there will be much less of a wait next time. See you whenever. https://clygro.cc/blog/7.html Thu, 11 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0100