Electro Musical Tabs 3/15/26
Today I made different tabs for the current electro musical projects I am working on. Went by with only minor hicups. My to-do's in no particular order are:
- darkmode
- a sidebar that works with the theme for a more permenant to do list, maybe a full page dedicated to todo lists
- a good font
- a chat function
- linocut borders and flourishes
- animations for link clicks
- a nice background
CacheBusting 3/12/26
Working through Petra's (Her Wonderful Website) Cachebusting tutorial as having to clear my cache everytime I'm making edits is a pain in the ass. This was also a pain in the ass, for some reason I could not get it to work after meticulously going through the tutorial. Went through her "common mistakes and troubleshooting guides and did the unthinkable. Opened up the dev tools. After playing wack-a-mole for a bit, I ended up deleting the "return" on the "no-layout" if statement. I'm really hoping that doesn't bite me in the ass later. I also had to move the header and footer layouts above their respective inserting commands. I am unsure of why it was working before the cache busting script but now that they're above it seems to work.
A quick thought on why it worked before moving layout section up: Maybe the first time the page loads it didn't work, but because I refreshed, and the layout variable (headerEl) was already loaded from a previous instance it was able to work as the variable. Cachebusting broke it (possibly) because it wasnt able to load the variable from a previous time. So I had to move the variable up above when it was used. This begs the question, (for Petra if you see this) why were the header and footer variable declarations at the bottom of the layout.js file and not towards the top.
While working on this I listened to Martin Sturtzer's Ambient Dub live sets (No.78 and No.79). Sounds like the Halo CE soundtrack (Walk in the Woods, Covenant Dance etc.) mixed with Boards of Canada. Good stuff, great coding music.
Future goals. Get a chat function up and running, maybe on the main page since it will most likely be bare, but I might have a dedicated page for it. Oxenhome could be a little selection of my favorite projects, or maybe my current obsession. It could also be a bare bones parge with links to the other more dedicated sections, a Hub so to speak. Time will tell what I want to do with it. I also do not know if I want my pages (physical, electro musical, etc.) to function as galleries or as blogs. Maybe having a dedicated gallery page will work. I think I want to have a separate section of a page for a specific project in that page. So all reel to reel stuff will be in one section, while synthesizer stuff will be in another section. Mason Armand's art gallery function is what I have in mind. Will continue to go through Petra's site to see what I want to add. I will add a sidebar with a to-do list on this page next. As that will keep me semi organized :3
also a damn dark mode for this place dear lord
This website begins. 3/11/26
I got this website to its current state. Figuring out how want to do different posts. Do all updates go in the same scroll, or is each update its own page. Maybe one project's updates go on one page with links from each section leading to it. I.e. Electro Musical> Tape Reel Stuff> Update. IDK, depends on how much effor I want to put in i guess. If anyone sees this and has suggestions let me know.