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Added at and tag shortcodes, so that posts and more can reference existing tags like #Current Brainworm #Microcasette , or existing section like @tmp @gfx . I’ve also extended the vs code snippet generating script to enable autocompletion of both. Idk I think it’s neat.

Personal @self 3 Oct 2026, at 22:03

I didn’t know it was made specifically for the video… It’s been turning up in my mind at a regular interval for years.

Page meta @meta 3 Oct 2026, at 23:47

Also, added soundcloud embeds! Works the same way as the bandcamp embed by getting the track url and extracting embed url, track name etc.

Added edit page buttons to posts and sections based on this dev.to post. Combines nicely with the reply tasks in-editor, so you could navigate back to an older post, click to edit, and then run the Reply... or Reply here tasks.

Page meta @meta 13 Sep 2026, at 21:59

I wrote a little python script using the frontmatter package to generate a vs code snippets file from the tags of existing posts, so that I can ctrl + space in the frontmatter to add existing tags. I’m enjoying the whole infrastructure building thing…

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import os
import frontmatter
import json

tags = set()

for root, dirs, files in os.walk(r"./content/"):
    for n in files:
        fp = os.path.join(root, n)
        with open(fp, "r", errors="ignore") as f:
            post = frontmatter.load(f)
            if 'tags' in post:
                for tag in post['tags']:
                    if tag:
                        tags.add(tag)

print(tags)
snippetObj = dict()

for tag in tags:
    snippetObj[tag] = {
        "scope": "yaml",
		"prefix": tag,
		"body": "- " + tag
    }

with open(".vscode/tags.code-snippets", "w") as f:
    f.write(json.dumps(snippetObj, indent=4))

Page meta @meta 13 Sep 2026, at 22:58

Oh I’m having a bit of fun with this. Added another one for autogenerating shortcode snippets. Currently only clever enough to add a closing tag if the file uses .Inner, but hey, still an improvement to ease of writing.

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import os
import glob
import json

snippetObj = dict()

for path in glob.glob(r"./themes/*/layouts/*shortcodes"):
    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
        for n in files:
            fp = os.path.join(root, n)
            with open(fp, "r", errors="ignore") as f:
                shortcodeName = n.replace(".html", "")
                print(shortcodeName)
                body = "{\{<"+shortcodeName+" ${1:$TM_SELECTED_TEXT} >}}"
                if '.Inner' in f.read():
                    body = "{\{<"+shortcodeName+" $1 >}}\n${2:$TM_SELECTED_TEXT}\n{\{</"+shortcodeName+" >}}"
                snippetObj[shortcodeName] = {
                    "scope": "markdown",
                    "prefix": shortcodeName,
                    "body": body
                }
            
with open(".vscode/shortcodes.code-snippets", "w") as f:
    f.write(json.dumps(snippetObj, indent=4))

Realizing that I need to add both a styled audio player and a spoilers / content warning shortcode for a thing I want to post…

Update: working on it…

Personal @self 24 Aug 2026, at 21:08

Background music from some yt video on DIY guitar pickups reminded me…

Page meta @meta 24 Aug 2026, at 22:54

Way to go sniping myself with figuring out a neat way to do bandcamp embeds. Turns out you can getRemote the url of what you want to embed and then likely find relevant embed links and data in the meta tags using findRESubmatch. Don’t forget to safeURL it!

If you don’t mind the loss of interactivity you could get rid of the iframe entirely by extracting the track info and album cover to host locally… Later.

Pagination

It was becomming necessary, so I added rudimentary pagination using HUGOs inbuilt solution. This means replyTos don’t currently count, which might need fixing at some point…

Also I should probably add some little js thing to collapse long reply chains with some readmore buttons.

Page meta @meta 4 Aug 2026, at 00:27

From writing a first post

Okay this thing has been in the works for a bit… And on the backburner for much longer. The general idea is just to have some place to put things that I’d want to share, or might be useful for others.

Page meta @meta 4 Aug 2026, at 22:47

Okay gallery shortcode implemented.

Page meta @meta 9 Aug 2026, at 18:09

Okay, image rendering is in a workable state now. I also fixed up the front page to show sections properly (and added a right hand sidebar):

Some obvious next steps:

• Don’t convert png’s if smaller output.
• Automatic read-more solution to shorten replied-to posts?
• Return to main page button if header disabled.
• Figure out tags and comments.
• RSS feeds for everything.
• Video shortcode.