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Night's Black Agents Part 1
This is part 1 of a one-shot game of Night's Black Agents I ran with Infinite Monkey Tales. This was part of a series where different GMs would run a quickstart adventure and then review/talk about the game after playing the adventure.
Personal Interest
This blog area of my website contains stuff of personal interest: games, hobbies, fun things, interesting videos, etc.
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Strawbery Starter 1.1 release
A new update for Strawberry Starter! In fact, the first major update!
Here's a rundown of the new features:
Tags
You could already tag your posts, but now it's more useful! If you have at least one tag (that isn't post or infobar) a tag view will appear in your "All Posts" page. This lets you view every tagged post at once! All of the example posts that come with the template have tags now, to serve as little examples of this feature.
Navbar links & Footer comments
It's now easier than ever to add external links to your navbar, or add comments to your post pages. You'll see two new layouts in the _includes folder: navbar.html and comments.html. The former lets you easily add external links (or whatever else)! and the latter lets you easily copy paste a comment script from a service like Disqus or CommentBox.
Minifeeds
A new social-media-ish alternative for your blog! Add feeds to the minifeeds folder and give them a tag. This is a great way to keep an ongoing list of books you've read or stuff you're doing. Posts added to the minifeeds folder won't count as "posts", and so won't clog up the RSS Feed or the "All Posts" page. They'll only appear in the tag view, but you can also link to them directly. A new #Updates minifeed has been added to the template to show you how to do it!
Easy backups!
You can now type npm run backup in a command line to backup your blog. This will preserve your assets and posts in a format that's really convenient for backing up, OR for using to upgrade to a newer version of Strawberry Starter. Just download the new version, drop your backup in there, and voila!
There's a new guide on the site about how to use all these in more detail: Advanced Features.
Let me know what you think about this update! I've already seen some cool blogs out there, and am hoping to see more. Special thanks to Em Reed and their awesome blog, for helping me test out these new features.
Keep blogging, and believe in the net! 🍓
Strawbery Starter 1.0 release!
Wow! You can now blog with this cool new tool!
Strawbery Starter 1.1 release
A new update for Strawberry Starter! In fact, the first major update!
Here's a rundown of the new features:
Tags
You could already tag your posts, but now it's more useful! If you have at least one tag (that isn't post or infobar) a tag view will appear in your "All Posts" page. This lets you view every tagged post at once! All of the example posts that come with the template have tags now, to serve as little examples of this feature.
Navbar links & Footer comments
It's now easier than ever to add external links to your navbar, or add comments to your post pages. You'll see two new layouts in the _includes folder: navbar.html and comments.html. The former lets you easily add external links (or whatever else)! and the latter lets you easily copy paste a comment script from a service like Disqus or CommentBox.
Minifeeds
A new social-media-ish alternative for your blog! Add feeds to the minifeeds folder and give them a tag. This is a great way to keep an ongoing list of books you've read or stuff you're doing. Posts added to the minifeeds folder won't count as "posts", and so won't clog up the RSS Feed or the "All Posts" page. They'll only appear in the tag view, but you can also link to them directly. A new #Updates minifeed has been added to the template to show you how to do it!
Easy backups!
You can now type npm run backup in a command line to backup your blog. This will preserve your assets and posts in a format that's really convenient for backing up, OR for using to upgrade to a newer version of Strawberry Starter. Just download the new version, drop your backup in there, and voila!
There's a new guide on the site about how to use all these in more detail: Advanced Features.
Let me know what you think about this update! I've already seen some cool blogs out there, and am hoping to see more. Special thanks to Em Reed and their awesome blog, for helping me test out these new features.
Keep blogging, and believe in the net! 🍓
About
Strawberry Starter is an 11ty blog template that came about as I was thinking about the recent push towards personal websites. There's been growing sentiment in my corner of the internet that social media is bad; that that we should ditch it in favor of blogs and personal homepages, but... there's not many great options out there if you're a beginner to HTML/CSS/JS!
Lately I've been doing a lot of dev, and decided I could put some of my knowledge to work, adding to the pool of available resources.
My hope for this template is that someone with little experience can download and use it, and that it'll spur them towards a path of learning about HTML and CSS!
Special thanks
- Zonelets
- Zonelets is a huge inspiration to me! Part of my design goal for Strawberry Starter was basically "Zonelets but without needing to write HTML".
- 11ty
- Finally, static site generation that's good! This is the most intuitive SSG I've used and it has totally rekindled my love for webdev.
- Foto
- For being wonderful and helping out when I get frustrated. Thanks for contributing a theme, too ❤️
- Sean
- For always taking a look at my code, fixing bugs, and teaching me lots.
- Emma, IAN, Rumpel, and S.T.
- For being helpful
guinea pigstesters 😎 and contributing critical bug reports/pull requests.
- For being helpful
- My friends who blog
- For being excited about this project and cheering me on!
Strawbery Starter 1.0 release!
Wow! You can now blog with this cool new tool!