#7. FURTHER AUTOMATING AWAY THE TEDIUM OF A WEBSITE | 21/06/2026

Posted by Xenia Foxx @ 1030 | Back to Posts | Back to Homepage

now essentially for the longest time the way my website works has remained the same
which i really quite appreciate
but the issue is that with my style of writing and the barebones nature of my website leads to a lot of annoyance in actually writing my blogposts
this means i post less and if i post less whats the real point
today i want to explain how my website works and then present some little ideal design for how ill automate it
and then hopefully ill write the code
i fuckin hate ai so im doin it by hand and yours truly hasnt gotten its hands dirty with scripting in a while
so well see how that goes

first things first how does this website even work

to be honest its super simple
because i type and end my sentences in newlines
it really makes formatting quite easy
the only annoying thing is the amount of break tags in my text
for example let me show you this paragaph block in my code

i dont find that i have a lot of issues writing things like this
my only issue is that id like to at least streamline the process
as a whole theres a lot more that goes into formatting these pages and its mostly just copy and pasting the template i wrote at the start but like to be honest theres still a lot that could be so much easier
like the blogpost wormhole for example needs to be manually updated with a new link every new article
its not that hard because its also really easy to understand the structure of that file and how to add to it i do think i set it up in a good way
its just annoying because ive for sure fucked it up in the past and had broken article links
connor i know you wanted me to fix that and i finally did i just want you to know it took me genuine months
but yeah the first order of business is to basically just narrow down some of the features i want my script to have and then see what i can do

so imagine this as what we would start with just in a text file
or at least thats what im envisioning so that way i can just write out all my stuff in like a random text file and generate my post off it you know
and our scripts goal is to do the following to it formatting wise

so for the rest of what i want the script to do it honestly just needs a few more basics that i wouldnt really want to keep doing myself
like i said i break the wormhole sometimes i guess
and the more i write the harder itll be to keep track of
actually i kinda fucked myself by writing assests into this post now because now im thinking about how awesome more image blogs would be

1. take command line input for the title
2. gather the date and time of posting
3. take a file as input
4. parse file and spit out completed html file
5. add the new post automatically to the wormhole

the only real issue i have with this is that i dont really want to work in python again and i havent written anything that does file io in javascript
im half comfortable with either but theyre both equally kind of shit options
i had other considerations about this like maybe i would finally learn rust lol
but thats overkill for this
oddly enough the truth is i may end up using go
i really liked it when i was writing in it and so it might come back as a sort of website script time thing
but like choosing a language isnt that important as long as i do it in one of them
i feel like ill be able to figure it out eventually
i sort of just dont really want to write it this moment like i initially was going to because i kinda realized its fathers day
so yeah ill get to it eventally and its nice that i have some sort of idea of how this will work now

anyways yeah sorry

this blog post is kind of low effort compared to the one im going to be writing in a bit
i just wanted to kinda ramble about an idea i had to make my life easier whilst updating this site
but even more big new updates coming soon
since i think were gonna be startin a webring
anyways thats all for now and i love you
-xenia