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Nearly there...
2026-08-30 - hearthsinger
We're getting a bit closer to launching the site, which is neat! Largely this has just consisted of polishing some of the (limited) javascript and cleaning the layout/css as some of the pages have been fleshed out. There's also a (very lightly) hidden theme-switcher now! Just start clicking on stuff that isn't an obvious link and you'll find it - or check out all the unminified source for the site (what's this theme.js?).
The last.fm scrobbles now display in appropriate client-local time, and nested divs no longer get unintended borders. I've also added a box-shadow based accent on the bottom edge of most of the parent display containers.
The aim has always been to keep the amount of javascript that drives the site to a minimum, and at the moment I'm pretty happy with where things have landed. Beyond the "Now Playing" widget on the about page, javascript drives only the theme switcher (to set data attributes dynamically) and a generic click-to-copy implementation used as a convenience for the embed code for my site badge. It's written s/t any pair of .copyable classed attributes will function properly given their target element. Given the minified-at-build time css and minimal JS, I'm going to avoid bundling the page source via webpack or something similar for now. Anyone should be able to poke around using browser dev tools to figure out how it all ticks. I don't purport to be the world's best web-designer - graphic design is not my passion haha - but I am overall pretty happy with how things have gone.
I still have some features for spindrift that I'd like to get implemented - I've added the post tags to the index and individual post views, but they're currently not interactable, there's no way to sort/search by post. In the global config object I have a flag to generate an index for posts by tag, but it doesn't do anything right now. I think the easiest apprach is to generate a /tags/index.html that acts as an index for every tag posted, sorted by post count or something, and then when you click into each you get sub-indexes of just posts with that tag. Clicking on an individual tag should take you to that tag's index page.
Shouldn't be terrible to implement all things considered, just some basic slicing and dicing of the data, but my rust is incredibly (not a joke) rusty so it'll take me a minute to get back into the swing of things I bet.