Change log

This weekend I reached for Claude AI to see how it does with an SVG heavy design. It struggled with keeping things in proportion and keeping perspective. I had to nudge it and do hand edits. SVG’s are not my forte but together we brought my concept to life. I think its adorable. Check it out.

blog with pirate ship design. blog posts go down the sails. at the top there is a pirate and a compass rose for blog navigation.

Since I just changed to a new blog design, here is a picture of my old one :)

A website homepage with a vintage computer game aesthetic, featuring sections on recent updates, featured garden plots, and various links for topics, spaces, and analytics.

New digital garden theme :)

CSS Naked Day, April 9th 2025

screenshot of heyloura.com with all styles disabled

  🧟 #code   🧟 #meta-jots

Made some progress yesterday on my blog/game hybrid. I’m thinking that the blog post will be represented by the broken tablet and you’ll need to find the key to unlock and read it, thus gaining gold and XP. The game change-log has been updated. Onward! 🐉⚔️👩‍💻

A pixelated game interface displays a character navigating through a maze-like environment with inventory options and navigation instructions on the side.

  🧞 #meta-jots

I’ve seen a few other give their blogs a Halloween/October vibe and I’m joining in too. Nothing like floating1 emojis to make a website look good2 😎

Auto-generated description: A pixel-art-style webpage featuring a blog with categories, adventure logs, and a retro visitor counter, set against a Halloween-themed background.

  1. Disabled if browser has prefers-reduced-motion ↩︎

  2. In my opinion 😆 ↩︎

  👻 #meta-jots

Website change-log

  • Sidebar now collapses on mobile
  • Categories now show last updated
  • Font tweak
  • Category pages: pulls in images and bookshelf, bookmarks (by tag), and single page if they have the same name.
  • Blogger stats tweaked (label and order)
  • Addded surprise-me plugin
  🪙 #meta-jots

Some minor blog tweaks today. I updated my little pixel avatar and I changed how I was grouping posts (thanks to @jsonbecker for the inspiration 😊).

  👹 #meta-jots

I actually updated my website theme two weeks ago but forget to make a change log post about it 😊 This one was inspired by Super Mario Kart and rainbow road.

website blog theme. Border around the main content is a pixelated rainbow road made with pastel colors. In the background small white dots representing stars move up the page

  💣 #tai chi   💣 #code   💣 #meta-jots

Here was take two on my blog design. I had midjourney make the logo with the prompt of “pixel art Tai Chi girl who codes”.

parallax blog theme with rpg elements

Photos

Move using the WASD keys or by clicking the boxes around the player.

Inventory

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