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perfectionist who's trying to
stop being such a perfectionist
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🍬@Bonbon9/9/2022, 12:59 PM

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🍬@Bonbon9/9/2022, 9:46 AM

One thing that I like about my Finite Timeline

...is that it encourages me to actually look for new content rather than just letting new content come to me.

I've been kind of so used to letting information passively come to me through algorithms from places like Twitter and YouTube that I kind of been seriously neglecting the experience of searching and finding new content.

Part of why I'm writing this is to perhaps remind me to use search and bookmarked tags more often than I might otherwise would've... and perhaps spending the time learning how to make these nice css(?) borders will further cement the existence of such functions into my mind aaa

like seriously this is pretty much my first time ever learning css-stuffs like this. i guess that i'm using the existence of such features in a post to motivate me to learn these things as i need them aaaa

I'm not sure how long it'll be until it's almost like having an infinite timeline from the sheer number of people that I'd be following by then, but perhaps with enough conscious choices early on _{^{like now}}, I'll consume cohost in a more active way than a passive way. But at least there'll be end points such that endless scrolling wouldn't be possible!

#with enough gradual study of css perhaps i too will eventually obtain the skills to commit css crimes myself aaa

@two9/9/2022, 11:43 AM

They say the gateway to css crimes is

css misdemeanours

#this took me like 45 minutes #but that's 45 minutes not spent scrolling so it's all worth it

🍬@Bonbon9/9/2022, 12:59 PM

Yessss, this is fantastic, aha!

I still haven't really figured out yet how the heck svg without <svg> tags works, though. That'll be something for me to figure out later probably, ehehh.

With my current skillset, I'd Inspect Element that and all I'd see is chaos and sorrows.
^{and it's relatively small, too! but wth does it meannnnn}

#and that sounds about right aha #right now my newbie crime-chosting entails reading pages upon pages of... pages aaa #css misdemeanor

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@two9/10/2022, 1:17 AM

I think the <svg> is (technically?) still in there, just base64 encoded and set as the background image of a div. I have truly no idea why the Cohost system seems to break the same thing in <img> tags, though. All part of the adventure, I guess!

🍬@Bonbon1/24/2023, 4:27 PM

.............After basically a ZILLION units of time (i.e., 4 months) of undergoing the occasional bout of chosting-motivated css-learning, I FINALLY understand wth you were talking about here????

I think that part of why it took me so long to understand wth base64-⁠encoding was all about was because I eventually realized that we could upload SVGs as images into cohost, and just use the resulting hosted SVG file as an image in e.g., markdown, so i never needed to understand these base64stuffs for my svg-using needssss

And now that I am an itty-bit more competent at reading markup ⁠bloops than basically when I flippin' started.... I was re-examining your ℹ as presented in Inspect and noticed that if I replace the "s in the background:url(␣) bit of your ℹ with "s that it.... it doesn't work??????
Like, I didn't think that it'd differentiate between " and ", so........
..😅.........???????!???!??!?!??!!???!
(Idk if that was the reason you used " or if that was just a weird conversion thing that worked in your favour or whether I'm just doing a super dum and I mistyped something or etc. but aa)

Also, after all this, I'm not quite sure what the advantage would be to then use base64 svgs over cohosted svg files???
Just a way to avoid relying on hosting at all or..?????

@two1/25/2023, 10:36 AM

Ah, to be honest now that I've had more experience with the post parsing situation here I think the background url thing is mostly some weird hack that Prechoster uses to get around having to upload images somewhere as you describe! Uploading an svg to cohost or anywhere else and setting it as the href of an image tag works fine; they just(?) don't like data urls. Of course my attempt at finding any solution in this post with the little knowledge I started with led me to a weird one.

...the quotes are probably also a weird hack; because double quotes are already used for the style="[...]", putting double quotes inside the style string would break it in half, which it doesn't like very much. I definitely could have just used single quotes, or probably even left them out of the url() thing entirely, but I really had no idea what I was doing!

🍬@Bonbon1/28/2023, 6:27 AM

Ahh, makes sense with prechoster!
Would be a bit of a [idk??] to have to rely on uploading the image somewhere for hosting in an application like that.
I can't think of when I'd personally use base64 at this point, but it's good to have this knowledge tucked away in my toolkit just in case????

And ooohh my goshness, I see!
So when I replaced the "s, I was just prematurely closing an earlier " and opening another "... which then made no sense.
I had no idea that " could be used that way, but that's really cool!!
another handy trick to add to my toolkit?????

(also, for your private notes, I'm very jan Fan pi Canada Moist Talkers bloop a)

🍬@Bonbon1/28/2023, 9:49 AM

.........I think that I already thought of a use for base64 that I probably won't be trying until a while:

embedding SVGs within SVGs

I realized this while checking out the code for @torcado's pfp again, which I now understand includes base64 for PNGs

There may be a way to just assign different objects in an SVG different classes to apply different CSS to them, in which case this wouldn't be necessary??
but at least i realize that base64 would be good for embedding pngss

@two1/29/2023, 8:13 AM

I don't think that svgs-within-svgs would be seriously useful for anything... but maybe! I don't really know much about SVG. I wish you the best of luck with (maybe) trying it.
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