Site Journal on Foxtrot's Space

004: new stuff, archive stuff

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 12:57:55 +0100

TL;DR: some lil layour edits + icons, first Check This Out! and a new art category!

On a bit longer-winded side: I got around to replacing the site icon and also made a lil RSS icon that fits next to the clacks on the footer :) It points to this section, as it’s the most centralized the updates will really be. Also: now we have breadcrumb navigation! Yippee yahoo! Seeing how confusing it started getting without one and Two blog-like sections, it got. Interesting for sure! Also i just. Like how breadcrumbs look. Don’t laugh at me i just htink they’re charming.

003: starting to look presentable

Sun, 16 Nov 2025 21:34:06 +0100

TL;DR: cleanup, new home page, new cross-stitch pattern!

FINALLY… the images are centered! [cheers erupt from the rafters] Thank you, thank you!

But no, seriously, suddenly everything seems much more okay. Centering images in CSS is a whole ordeal heavily reliant on how exactly you encapsulate your images, which I don’t (who would want to wrangle that in markdown?!), so I ended up going the display: block; margin: auto route. Yippie! I also spent a good hour trying to figure out how to add classes to images for pixelart and scaling reasons. The answer is [markup.goldmark.parser.attribute.block] = true, and putting {.class-name} under the image, not next to it, and then it works like a charm. Provided you don’t accidentally put : into your CSS instead of ;. Which I did. And then hunted down for another 20 minutes. YAY.

002: oh boy we missed things

Tue, 11 Nov 2025 19:00:00 +0100

TL;DR: a bunch of little CSS changes. Fixed the RSS actually not pointing here, lol.

Much better posts now! We have: a keep reading button! The date is actually separated from the post body! I FIXED THE RSS POINTING TO URLS ON EXAMPLE.ORG!! (I redid the base of this website so many times while fidgeting with HUGO, I forgot to change the base URL on this iteration. Oops!)

…All of these also took me embarrasingly long, because I kept editing the files (correctly), but then tried to preview the changes on the actually deployed site. Which, need I say, is NOT directly from my work files. I gotta build it and push it to the server. At least you don’t have to see all my WIP nonsense :)

001: The first one!

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 18:52:08 +0100

TL;DR: Cross stitch pattern page, the Site journal feed and oooh! Pretty CSS!

So we begin! This is actually few days of work, from research of how to even wrangle HUGO to actually putting this weird thing together in a minimal-working-product style of thing. It’s been a decision to use HUGO at all, me being me wanting to know pretty much everything that will go on under the hood of my own website, I almost went with writing this entire thing by hand, and then a script to glue it together. Before an IRL friend reminded me that markdown static website builders exist (and pretty much do this exact thing). But me being me, I am still building most of this on my own, even if there are very fancy and very pretty themes and everything.