Sometimes your blog breaks for no reason

6/24/2023 6:56 pm | : 3 mins. | Share to:

I don't know why.

A few weeks ago, I rewrote how the blog generates what I call the "link tails" which is when a link is followed by the (domain.com) information. It was originally part of the publication of the blog and thus embedded in the html files directly. But then I decided I wanted to move it to be javascript.

Honestly... I'm not sure why. I had a reason. I'm sure of it.

In any case, it wasn't working today. I'm not sure what happened, but it appears to be an issue with how I was filtering the links. Not every link on the blog gets a tail. Only ones which go off the blog (so no trickjarrett.com tails) as well as no links in the sidebar.

And something stopped working with that such that no links were getting tails. I did the filtering a different way and it's all fixed.

Also it looks like there was a reversion of the CSS file. I'm not sure why, but something got lost and I had to recreate a bit of CSS. My best guess is that I accidentally overwrote the site's CSS file with a local copy which was not the most recent, as I sometimes tweak the CSS file on the server. Oops.

In any case, it's fixed now.

Edit: Regarding Wikindle project

It finished running overnight. I spent a little while coding a cleanup function which scans downloaded files and removes ones I don't want. This is one of the features I mentioned wanting. So I've got that figured out. And it blacklists articles so I don't re-download them in the future.

I started working on having it generate cross linking between articles, but there were enough bugs that I stopped and decided to come back to it.

For now, I consider the project done and stable. There are improvements, but it's time for me to move back to working on the blog and on Behemoth.