A personal corner of the old internet: an arcade, a photo archive, a logbook, and a spinning chrome skull. https://westonwhat.com/ 2026-10-29T05:08:00.000Z Weston https://westonwhat.com/log/hello-world/ 2026-10-29T05:08:00.000Z

This is a sample entry. It's here so the logbook has something in it while you get set up. Delete this file whenever you like: content/posts/2026-10-28-hello-world.md. The logbook…

<p>This is a <strong>sample entry</strong>. It's here so the logbook has something in it while you get set up. Delete this file whenever you like: <code>content/posts/2026-10-28-hello-world.md</code>.</p> <p>The logbook is for anything: a thought you had on the bus, a review of a game nobody remembers, a long essay, a list of links. Each entry is one Markdown file. The file name starts with the date, and the rest becomes the address, so this one lives at <code>/log/hello-world/</code>.</p> <p>Entries get a few old-forum touches for free:</p> <ul> <li>a <strong>size</strong> in bytes, like a file listing</li> <li>an optional <strong>mood</strong> and <strong>listening to</strong> line, LiveJournal style</li> <li><strong>tags</strong>, each with its own page</li> <li>a blinking NEW badge for the first two weeks</li> </ul> <p>New entries also go out on the <a href="https://westonwhat.com/feed.xml">Atom feed</a> automatically.</p> https://westonwhat.com/log/formatting-test/ 2026-10-27T07:57:00.000Z

Everything the logbook knows how to draw, on one page. Use this as a cheat sheet, then delete it. Regular text, bold text, italic text, struck-out text, and inline code. Links…

<p>Everything the logbook knows how to draw, on one page. Use this as a cheat sheet, then delete it.</p> <h2 id="a-heading">A heading</h2> <p>Regular text, <strong>bold text</strong>, <em>italic text</em>, <del>struck-out text</del>, and <code>inline code</code>. Links look like <a href="https://westonwhat.com/arcade/">this one to the arcade</a>.</p> <h3 id="a-smaller-heading">A smaller heading</h3> <blockquote> <p>A quote block. Good for quoting someone, or yourself from three years ago.</p> </blockquote> <ul> <li>A bulleted list</li> <li>with a few items <ul> <li>and a nested one</li> </ul></li> <li>and back out</li> </ul> <ol> <li>A numbered list</li> <li>counts by itself</li> <li>even if you forget the numbers</li> </ol> <div class="table-wrap"><table> <thead><tr><th>Thing</th><th style="text-align:center">Rating</th><th>Notes</th></tr></thead> <tbody> <tr><td>Tables</td><td style="text-align:center">★★★</td><td>Pipes and dashes</td></tr> <tr><td>Alignment</td><td style="text-align:center">★★☆</td><td>Colons in the divider row</td></tr> </tbody></table></div> <pre><code>C:\&gt; echo code blocks keep their spacing code blocks keep their spacing</code></pre> <hr> <p>Images work too. Put the file in <code>public/img/</code> and point at it:</p> <p><img src="https://westonwhat.com/img/gfx/skull.gif" alt="The site's spinning skull" loading="lazy" decoding="async"></p> <p>And because this is the old web, raw HTML passes straight through. Here's a scrolling banner that pauses when you hover it, and holds still for anyone who turned motion off:</p> <p class="scroller"><span>this text scrolls like it's 1999. hover to make it stop.</span></p> https://westonwhat.com/log/how-to-post/ 2026-10-21T03:30:00.000Z

Posting takes three steps. 1. Make a file in content/posts/ named with today's date and a few words: 2. Write the entry. The part between the --- lines is the settings block.…

<p>Posting takes three steps.</p> <p><strong>1. Make a file</strong> in <code>content/posts/</code> named with today's date and a few words:</p> <pre><code>content/posts/2026-11-02-a-short-title.md</code></pre> <p><strong>2. Write the entry.</strong> The part between the <code>---</code> lines is the settings block. Everything after it is your post, in plain Markdown:</p> <pre><code>--- title: A short title date: 2026-11-02 22:15 tags: [music, late-night] mood: optional music: optional --- Your words go here.</code></pre> <p>Add <code>draft: true</code> to keep an entry off the live site while you work on it.</p> <p><strong>3. Publish.</strong> If the site is connected to GitHub, commit the file and Cloudflare rebuilds the site in about a minute. Otherwise run <code>npm run build</code> and upload the <code>dist</code> folder. The README has both routes.</p>