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As a random almost spur of the moment thing I have bought the url tgua.dev; Due to this purchase the subsequent move to the url is now active, all funcitons and hostings that used to be on tgu.pages.dev are beign transitioned to the new url, the old url will remain active, however it is recommended to start using the new url as the orl one may be fazed out in some point in the future.

Date of writing: 2025-05-16

As a great programmer, I totally wasn't manually including my HTML blog posts in the main blog.php file and moving odl posts to oldblog manually... Well at least not anymore, with this latest update all blog posts are stored in /blog.json and parsed to show the newest 3 here, all posts on /archive. and display a specific post by its ID with /cite?id={id}. Not much else to say here...

Date of writing: 2025-05-16

While I usually don’t post this kind of thing to my blog, this story I wrote for ELA is hilarious!

Chaos at the zoo, by Joshua Thayer
One day my friend and I went to the zoo. When we got there the parking lot was full of escaped lemurs with black cloaks fighting escaped chimpanzees with magical fire that shoots out of their tails. The lemurs were making advances towards the chimpanzees while we stared in shock--Then immediately turned around, put the pedal to the metal, and got the heck out of there. By the time we got back to my house, men in black suits, white shirts, and black ties were waiting outside. We got out of the car and walked over “May I ask why you’re here?” I ask, still half shocked from the zoo… incident, the agent mutters something under his breath like “Where is my Neuralyzer?”. He rummaged through his pockets for a moment before pulling out a strange looking device, he held it up then told us to look into it , the device flashed brightly then… Wait, we’re late! We need to get to the zoo!

Did you get the MIB reference?

Date of writing: 2025-05-15

There was a downtime window from approximately 21:50 EST to 22:15 EST 2025-5-14 as my website transitioned to use a git build system with Gitlab and GitKraken. Sorry for any inconvenience caused by this switchover, however this change will allow for much easier and quicker updates on my end.

Date of writing: 2025-05-14

Today we're going to show you how to create a function full-site cache with a service worker(sw.js(The sw.js for this blog)); To accomplish this we’ll use a template I have created an show you how to set it up for your website, to show this I will be creating an implementation for tomxcd’s website, his website uses PHP and runs nginx/1.22.1. His website doesn’t have many pages yet, so this should be a relatively simple setup if we follow my template.
While you should overlook the entire code of everything you put on your website–and that stays true for this, the main part you need to worry about is:

 const cacheName = 'my-page-cache-v001';//remember to increase every time you change a page
 const staticAssets = [
   '/',
   '/url1',
   'url2',
   'url3'
 ];

 const cacheName = 'my-page-cache-v001';//remember to increase every time you change a page
 const staticAssets = [
   '/',
   '/index.php',
   '/archive.php',
   '/coming_soon.php'
 ];

Date of writing: 2025-05-14