Past Updates

Sunday, 18th January, 2026:

I want to make a splash page to take the place of the homepage. I want something much more indie web. Right now the layout of the site is pretty corporate looking. It would be fun to do something more retro-looking when you first visit the site. Something that reflects the personalities of our excellent hosts, also.

I'm reasonably happy with how the layout looks on mobile right now (in that it functions and you can access all the same information) so there's no reason why I can't make a way cooler version for people who view the website on PC.

I did a bit of practice around splash pages when working on a site for my daughter's monster characters. You can have a little gander of that by clicking here.

I'm also really behind adding Cube Fodder to all the episodes from Episode nine onwards. Ever since I first got the idea to do transcripts and missed one single episode's fodder, I have been behind. It literally gets worse every week but I'm doing little about it right now because I'm in the throes of making a load of content leading up to a K-pop concert I'm attending in February.

Saturday, 6th December, 2025: TRANSCRIPTS!

Oh, how I love the idea of having them. Oh, how time consuming they are to create, format, and correct.

The most complete transcript so far is Episode seven where I'm about a quarter of the way through the correction process. This includes fixing the terrible approximations Spotify makes in response to hearing a Wigan accent, and assigning names to our hosts' speech so you know who's yapping.

I'd love to be able to do these more quickly, but I can't see a way around it right now. If I were to work a little each day I reckon I could get one finished a week, but that's without doing the other update tasks around the site. They are going to be low priority, but I absolutely want to have them so there is always a written record of the pod, even long after the platforms that host them have disintigrated in the wake of the apocalypse.

The mobile site feels like an eternal scroll, so I want to create a burger menu to help reduce the vertical height and clear a bit of space. There are ways of doing this with only CSS, but I'm going to try to incorporate Javascript since I want to teach myself.

Sunday, 23rd November, 2025: I now have a working version of the mobile navigation. I want to apply it to the whole site, but for that I'll need to go through all the existing pages and restructure them to have HTML includes (see Point 3).

Update #2: I did it...

I'm thinking of changing the site so it loads content using Javascript. This way I don't have to change like 15 pages every time I want to do something with the menu.

Do I want to do it? Depends if I can make it fun. I found a good tutorial so maybe I can work it out once I run out of content to add on the rest of the site. Watch this space.

Sunday, 23rd November, 2025: I now have a working version of the HTML includes I intend to have on each page of the site. I've been able to call a menu into the footer using Javascript. I didn't end up following Petra Pixel's tutorial in this instance since I want each page to have its own unique content with the HTML includes forming the rest of the structure, rather than having a static template and calling the content into each page.