Hey all, hope you’ve been well. I wanted to take a moment to talk about what I’ve been up to since the last post. Feel free to skip the rest of this explanation with an assurance that I have been busy albeit without much to show for it.
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2021-07-26 01:19:53 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, hope you’ve been doing well. In the two or so weeks since I’ve last posted one of these, I’ve been at work continuing to expand the management side of the site. And there’s good news to share.
As you may recall, I had been w...
2021-06-13 21:44:11 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, hope you’ve been well. I’ve been busy in the past few weeks and, as of the time of posting this, have already rolled out a good deal of what I’ve been working on.
In my previous post I offered some broad strokes about what I w...
2021-05-27 14:49:32 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, it’s been a while since I’ve shared what I’ve been up to. I can report that I’ve let the THP spirit have reign free and have spread myself thin on various projects. So I haven’t managed to finish any of them yet but have gained ...
2021-05-07 09:30:43 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, hope you’re well. I’ve been working on some stuff on and off since the last time I posted but I’ll have more on that in the coming weeks. For now, I wanted to get back to answering the questions that some of you posed. I thought lon...
2021-04-07 14:18:25 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, hope you're doing well. As I said in the last post, I've been taking a while to figure out how to proceed with the next bits of code that I'll be working on. In the meantime, since I don't really have a ready topic, I thought that it woul...
2021-02-18 14:02:39 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, hope you’ve had a good start to the year. While it’s been somewhat quiet for THP as of late, I’ve been able to spend some time working on the site’s code.
I was tempted to title this post something appropriately self-depreci...
2021-01-27 15:23:05 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, hope you’re doing well as this very long year finally wraps up. I have a few goodies to announce this time around. While the end-of-year period has been especially busy for me, I’ve still managed to get some work done on the site.
... 2020-12-31 11:23:45 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, hope you’re doing well. Yesterday I rolled out a bunch of new stuff for THP and it seemed to go mostly well, with only small things needing fixes in the hours after.
There’s a lot here that ought to provide a better user experie...
2020-11-06 13:39:15 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, hope you’ve been well. I’ll be talking this time around about something rather pointless (and a little spooky) that I’ve had to work on. Sounds silly? Yes, well, the internet is a silly place.
I’m talking, of course about ca...
2020-10-29 22:43:22 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, hope you’re doing alright. While there’s a lot on the horizon to come, I thought that I’d talk about some of the other work I was doing in parallel to the story list overhaul and other things completed since.
Let’s start wit...
2020-10-09 13:56:02 +0000 UTC View PostAfter a whole lot of work and effort, the first phase of the story list overhaul is now finally complete. Thank you to all the patrons that helped provide the resources to make it possible. Check out the 2020-09-02 23:47:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all, hope you’ve been doing well!
Before jumping into today’s topic, I wanted to announce that I’m close to rolling out the changes to the story list. I froze development of new features and the general scope about a week or...
2020-08-28 13:32:49 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, hope you’ve been doing well. We continue to look at the upcoming story list changes, this time focusing on how searching works.
At its most basic, searching for something tends not to be too hard in programs. There are usua...
2020-08-09 14:20:01 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, hope you’re doing alright. As promised, I’ll be talking about the tag system and how it pertains to the story list this time around.
In order to have a dynamic number of tags for a variable amount of stories, inputting da...
2020-07-11 19:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, hope you’re doing alright. Instead of setting it up, I’ll let this GIF do the talking for me:
Now you may be thinking, “Hey, autoco...
2020-07-05 15:03:34 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, hope you’re doing well!
Last time I wrote one of these, I said it would be the first of a multi-part look at the storylist overhaul. Predictably, it took me longer to get to writing this as June proved to be a busy month for me. ...
2020-06-22 20:18:15 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys, hope you’re well. As promised, we’ll be talking about the story list this time around. I’m going to try something slightly different and split all of this up into shorter posts spread out over time, in the hopes that we don’t get...
2020-05-26 23:23:30 +0000 UTC View PostIn the last one of these I said I would be working on the story list. I lied. Sort of. I’ll have more on that in a week or two but for now I wanted to talk about some other optimizations I’ve been up to.
Over the past year especia...
2020-05-09 15:35:31 +0000 UTC View PostHey, hope you’re well and keeping sane if you’re quarantined. I’ll be talking about some of the things I’ve done since the last time I posted. For sake of convenience, we can broadly divide them up into three categories.
The first of...
2020-04-30 19:15:50 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys. Hope you and those important to you are doing well during this pandemic. I’m overdue on a writeup on the stuff that’s been going on with the site so I’ve finally decided to get around to it.
You may have noticed that last mon...
2020-04-15 16:02:49 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, hope you’re doing well. I’ve been busy since the last time I wrote up one of these. Both the second half of January and first half of February saw me do a lot of necessary work on the site. I took a little break around mid month but h...
2020-02-24 02:21:25 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, since the last time I wrote one of these, detailing some of the structural changes I made on the site, I’ve been busy doing this and that.
If you’re using THP on a mobile device, you may have noticed some of those efforts...
2020-01-10 00:47:38 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, hope you’re enjoying the holidays!
I’ve finally gotten around to finalizing some of the things I’ve been working on. I had put off the work until both NanoWriMo was over and things on my end quieted down.
S...
2019-12-24 16:46:23 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, I’d like to detail some of the stuff I’ve had to deal with lately and use the opportunity to explain a little about how the site works.
Whenever a post is made on THP, three basic things happen:
1) The input fields ...
2019-11-17 01:34:35 +0000 UTC View PostIt's November and, as is quickly becoming tradition, THP has once again embarked upon its own version of NaNoWriMo. There's quite a few new stories ...
2019-11-02 00:22:57 +0000 UTC View PostHey guys! Hope you’re well. Full disclaimer: this isn’t what I intended to share for the next one of these posts but because of a combination of a lack of time and a pervasive feeling of being suffocated by life’s crap, I haven’t had as mu...
2019-10-08 19:43:20 +0000 UTC View PostHello guys, hope you’re well. In case you missed it, my previous post touts the debut of Discord integration with Patreon. If you like you can link your account and g...
2019-09-05 17:07:21 +0000 UTC View PostUpdate (2019/09/02): If you're having issues getting your role, log out of discord, disconnect in your patreon settings, connect again and then log back in. Should work then.
Heya, I've gone and done something useless that n...
2019-09-01 19:58:34 +0000 UTC View Post