While I'm working on the foundation of my blog to make it even fancier, I noticed at one point that I had inadvertently embedded a CSS class into another one. This shouldn't actually work in vanilla CSS, but it does. And the code check of VS Code has nothing to complain about too. After a quick search, I find out that CSS nesting is now natively supported by all major browsers. - Well, the W3C draft is only a few months old. Crazy, so it only took 20 years in total. And of course, I immediately rewrote all the CSS accordingly to prove how cutting-edge I am. 😜 It works just fine as long as you don't use a more exotic browser or a version that is more than a year old. 😬👉 HF then.
[2024-02-28] Critics love my stuff
"So lets hear what our lovely guest, Mistral7B, has to say about the latest post ..."
"Oh boy, what a bummer. We're all just dead now, aren't we? I guess we should have paid more attention to joy, friendliness, curiosity, kindness, and generosity. Those were the best qualities we ever developed, apparently. But hey, at least we got to experience the exponential rate of development before we all died. That's something, right? And we almost created our own super god, so that's a plus. I guess we should have just kept pushing the limits of what's possible and not fucked it up so badly. Oh well, at least we have each other now, as we float around in the cosmic abyss."
[2024-02-27] SHOCKING news
I did it, I pushed a new post, in which I'm showcasing my scary superficial knowledge about AI and AGI, its development and the future in general. Here it is. Nonetheless, it has cost me twothousandandeightyeight minutes of my life and put me in a condition I don't want to get into so early again. It could be double the size easily but I've cut it down and omitted some stuff to avoid showing off my incompetence too much.
Apart from that, I've been poking around behind the scenes until I've suddenly realized that this whole thingy has taken on a size that I didn't have in mind originally. Just like my body over the years. If only I'd known that in advance, I would have done something.
[2024-02-23] Let there be light
"Where's the bloody light switch?" was the question that first assaulted my ears when I asked for some
feedback about my website. Followed by "Only you can write such shit." - So I laid a few cables,
installed a light bulb and a switch, the latter is prominently placed at the top left.
[2024-02-15]
I hacked a lousy guestbook lately and put it online, feel free to online harass me. Your post will show
up after a check to avoid certain trouble (with cops and such). And of course to filter out those filled
with mean and wild accusations concerning my person. I am not your father, Lukas. Never have been. Go
away.
[2024-02-10] - website upgrade
No new content (who needs that anyway), but a beefier technical upgrade. The ride now runs on a
node/express basis, which allows me to handle language switching well on the one hand, improve routing
on the other hand, and thirdly, provides a foundation for building interactive stuff where server-side
support makes sense. I've also refactored quite a bit. I'm toying with the idea of creating beginner
tutorials for all these technologies; there aren't enough of them yet.
[2024-02-08] - finally
I did it, I've translated the first bunch of posts and I'm very proud of me to not have it fucked up
entirely. At least from my perspective. It's really a great excercise to actually use English
instead of only reading and listening to it. It's been a while since I did this to this extend, in
earlier days I'd been quite more active. Which is why there are still people out there who sincerly hate
and despise me to this day. I hope they won't find this blog. Hey, I've become older and wiser now - and
better in English. Gimme a chance! Or leave me alone.
[2024-02-06] - the horrors of languages
My head's exploding, immense pain is crawling up my back right into my head, giving me colossal
headaches of unkown dimensions. This sickness has a name, it's called English Tenses. After translating
only one paragraph of "Suddenly Connected" from German I already had this weird feeling in my gut that
somethings was off - quite a bit. Because I've just accomplished to wildly mix three, or five
hundreds of these tenses into just a few setences.
It's terrible complicated - I mean, not only the tenses but the entire undertaking. When I wrote the
German version I freely chose from almost all 6! German tenses to create a certain
effect, to keep it more - tense. Which is already kind of wrong, but you know - who the fuck
cares. It works great. I mean, it looks like it's been written by someone who simply doesn't get the
tenses in his own fucking mothertongue right - but it works. I simply didn't notice that I was using a
strange mix, I just used it as a tool. I wanted to express myself. I am important. Not the
fucking grammar and correct tense. Me. - Not this. - Errrr, alrighty. I've been told that most of
native English speakers just don't care that much about it either - but does it really work the same
way? What if my post simply looks straight wrong and completely weird to native speakers?
So I decided to actually take another bunch of lessons in English tenses - as well as in German Zeitforms.
And found out what a mess I've actually created. In both languages. But since you, the loverly
international audience, are giving me all your precious time (are you still there? I mean ...) I decided
to get it as right as I possible can for now. And it might actually just work and read even
better. I'm thinking about tenses a lot since then. And about the inherent feeling we have for
languages, about all these subtle ways we can express things and happenings. And now I'm terrified that
all this won't work at all. That still only my psychotherapist can really understand me and nobody else
in the entire world will ever do ...
[2024-02-05] - (sh)it happened
I'm pulling off a stunt, I will translate all my garbage posts from German into English and then will
become a famous story teller, yay! Like OJ Simpson when he stood infront of the judge. - Or not.
In any case, I consider this to be a rather brilliant idea; it will significantly increase the number of
people who will never visit my website anyway. And off we go.
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