After seeing this article the other morning about replacing the Disqus comments on a blog powered by a static site generator (like this one) with comments backed by a GitHub issue and some front-end JavaScript to load and display them, I thought it would be fun to implement something similar. First I only built the code for displaying comments, similar to the aforementioned article, but I decided to take it one step further by allowing users to submit comments directly from my site.
Shadowfacts
The outer part of a shadow is called the penumbra
The Pretty Good Minor Update
It’s been about six months since the last time I redesigned the site, and while I didn’t want to redesign it yet again, I felt it could use a little update to make sure everything’s still good.
Type: A FOSS clone of typing.io
TL;DR: I made an awesome FOSS clone of typing.io that you can check out at type.shadowfacts.net and the source of which you can see here.
The Great Redesign
Welcome to the fourth iteration of my website. I’m still using Jekyll, however I’ve rewritten most of the styles from scratch. This theme is based on the Hacker theme for Hexo which is turn based on the Hacker WordPress theme but it has some notable differences.
Kotlin and Minecraft Forge
So, you wanna use Kotlin in your Forge mod? Well there’s good news, I’ve just released Forgelin, a fork of Emberwalker’s Forgelin, a library that provides utilities for using Kotlin with Minecraft/Forge.