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Jun 19, 2024

Welcome to Cyber Buffalo Industries! An industrious website that might not ever try to sell you something. In the pandemic year of 2020 I decided to teach myself how to 3d model and entered the ZeroDays cyberdeck building competition held by the awesome folks behind the cyberdeck cafe. I wanted to teach myself 3d modelling and 3d printing. I have been a sketch-up user for a long time because of my IRL job, but that was mostly for large scale stuff like rooms and environments. Long story short I decided to turn my long-term nickname into my website and decker persona, thus cyberbuffalo was born.

In real life I’m a set designer working in the LA photography industry. I love photography, especially shooting instant film. Unfortunately my favorite kind of film has been long discontinued so I’m mostly shooting modern polaroid and 35mm. I plan on using this space to upload some photos and create some image galleries.

I’ll add some contact info here in the future, but for now I’ll just link to my ~~twitter~~ bluesky which is mainly for me to keep up on video game news and hang out with shit-talking communists. You can also send me an email, it’s pretty easy. cyb3rbuffalo on gmail.

cbtheme2 theme 1.5 changelog

keeping a list of all changes I’ve made to the cyberbuff theme starting now, August 18 2024. I wish I had started this a lot earlier. I was making some posts everytime i made a change here or there, but just keeping a quick list would end up being the most thorough.

UPDATE - even though its 2025 and I’ve made lots of changes to this, I don’t know shit about version numbers therefore I’m keeping it at version 1.0.

UDPATE - with the release of the games section, I’m calling it, we’re at version 1.5, baby dolls.

[Unreleased]

continue to figure out camera categories for the “database.”
Cameras section - As the list grows it would be nice to be able to sort through some categories. Rangefinder, type, etc. Could do this on the gallery too.
need to port the list for game taxonomies so it follows the games section layout
need to add specific style to the BUFF CERTIFIED series page
RSS Feed needs to renew an article as unread based on the existence of lastmod
Add a last updated to the heading of the games pages.
Add style (and links LOL) to the /blogroll page.

2025

September 1 2025

ADDED linkhut to the 88x31 tabs on the hyperinks section

August 31 2025

CHANGED chats.html to allow for a custom user. Added variables “custuser” & “custavatar”. Put custom avatar in /static/images/ and provide the name.

June 16 2025

ADDED A new class for the newgalleryspec gallery shortcode, wide which will put out a bunch of uncropped images in a gallery.

June 15 2025

ADDED .connectline:has(+h1, +h2, +h3, +p) to the stylesheet. This prevents the .connectline element showing up when it is proceeded by more text like my “Final Thoughts” on a games page.
CHANGED THE ORBS! In the /games section, I started to mess around with making my own orbs and while looking for tips on pixel-art orbs, I found this page, and they rule and I’m using their orbs. Thank you, Flowly!
ADDED A purple orb in games which means I’ve put a game down, indefinitely.

June 5 2025

ADDED The ability to write threads in /bleets! I can use the same command-line utility I wrote, newpost, to make a follow-up post in the bleets’ folder.
ADDED Styling to the threaded bleets, reusing the connectline div but changing to to dashes instead of solid. Also changed the color of the dates and lines.
OH Also, newpost has been updated to PROPERLY figure out the date timezone. The date format that hugo really likes is YYYY-MM-DDT:HH:MM:SS-TZ:TZ. In the newpost I was ignoring the fact that my timezone, which is Pacific time - its either -07:00 GMT or -08:00, depending on if we are in the middle of observing daylight savings time. In Linux (bash? zsh?) You can invoke the current time zone by using %Z but it outputs it as PST or PDT so I added some if/then clauses to dump a variable and adds it to the end of the lastmod and date params.

June 2 2025

ADDED some styling to shortcodes/gameposts.html as well as adding in the connector line to link posts together into a thread.
ADDED z-index to <legend> because the line div was floating on top of it as the viewport shrank. I’ve added in a few rules but I don’t mind if it sits behind the date/time.
ADDED the time of the game posts as well.

May 29 2025

ADDED some css for footnotes

May 28 2025

ADDED New shortcode, csv-to-links.html. This is called from a page like so {{/< csv-to-links "mycoollist.csv" />}}. This is what’s driving my links on the BLOGROLL page.
ADDED New partial, csv-to-map.html which I pulled from the forums thanks to one jmooring. This handy dandy utility will take a CSV file and convert it to a map with proper key and value pairs. I was struggling to get my own version of this working when I found that forum thread and boo bam, we started cooking.

May 26 2025

ADDED A new section to BLEETS! Maybe its not a section, but I can now use certain front-matter on a bleet to make it into a tiny, defacto, in-line book review.

May 24 2025

CHANGED The line underneath the BLEETS date.
ADDED Pagination to the BLEETS section - bleets now shows the last 20 posts.

May 19 2025

FIXED image-gallery CSS, missing bottom padding.

May 13 2025

ADDED new shortcode chats. Let’s me call the shortcode and in between the opening/closing tag you put in lines of text that get rendered to look like chat bubbles. you can use date to set the date and can also include 1 image per block with image.

May 11 2025

ADDED new layout files for the /galleries section; galleries/baseof.html, galleries/list.html
ADDED new partial gallerylist.html
CHANGED the /galleries list page. New list gives a large picture preview with text on top. Uses the user-set featured_image parameter. Also added 2 a new paramenter that controls the vertical position of the featured image, allowing fine tuning.
REMOVED the sidelinks on the /galleries pages.
ADDED link to the RSS feed. I think we’re there! Subscribe via RSS!
ADDED yeargames.html partial for the games lists section, I added a clause where it will list the game using a new front matter parameter shorttitle.

May 6 2025

ADDED series as a taxonomy to config.toml
CHANGED layouts/games/single.html to check front matter for a series. If that series if buff then it adds the corner badge to the header image. Two new pieces of front matter [params] has been added, bufftitle and buffwrite. The first shows up as the heading on the BUFF CERTIFIED section on the bottom of the page. The second can be up to a short paragraph about the game.
ADDED bufftitle and buffwrite to the games/index.html archetype
ADDED (finally) Spoiler Policy to the front page of the games section.

April 3 2025

CHANGED I ran into a weird issue with my camera-used.html shortcode. The last two galleries I uploaded did not have the included shortcode rendered after deploying hugo in the project folder. They rendered fine in the local server 75% of the time. I did a little troubleshooting but I thought this would be the perfect time to take the contents of that shortcode and integrate it into the single template for the galleries section. So that’s whats happened. This probably will not fix whatever was causing that, but for now I’m happy. And I did some reformatting of that section.
CHANGED The camera’s section list.html template has been changed, all of the camera cards are now running on flexbox. This fixed a weird issue that was causing certain cards to skip to the next row in Safari.
CHANGED The Navigation bar, the ever evolving navigation bar my god. Made it wider, made the text bigger, etc.

March 31 2025

UPDATE the gamearticles.html and gametabs.html partials to be more consistent with the rest of the site.

March 29 2025

UPDATE The camera_used.html shortcode has been updated to V2.

March 24 2025

FIXED a bug in the partial yeargames.html (which groups the games by year in that section). The bug was adding a phantom 0001 year to the list which was, apparently as best as I can deduce, being caused by the page bundles _index.md file. Switched my paging method from .Site.Pages to .Site.RegularPages.
CHANGED minor tweaks to the CSS.

March 6 2025

CHANGED My blog directory structure to ``/content/blog/year/month` because it was getting unruly.

March 5 2025

FIXED The way that my lastmod script works. it needed to be reversed and show first 5 in order to show them, latest first.
ADDED article date and gameterms to the games/article pages.

March 4 2025

ADDED in hugo.toml the lastmod flag, so I can try to sort out the Recently Updated section for Games.

March 2 2025

ADDED On Games pages, I’ve decided to add some front matter that I can refer to in the header of the individual pages. So far its Date Started/Ended, Progress (in-progress/complete/on-going), Console & Genre. I might add publisher to that, or “notable personnel” or something. I guess that’s what tags are for. I also fixed the CSS so this new thing is responsive and looks good across devices.
FIXED Some CSS on the single Camera page. Added a first-of-type selector to the .column style.
ADDED A new bullet for Camera Inforation.

March 1 2025

CHANGED The way the lightbox gallery gets its CSS and Javascript files called. Originally, especially because I was testing and learning. Each shortcode had the js/css called, and the lightbox script. NOW it’s in its own shortcode that gets called once per page that uses any of the image shortcodes. I also changed the way the image gallery class is named. In the GAMES section, the class is just games. This lets you arrow through all of the images on that page as if they were built in the same gallery. Bleets & Blog will continue to generate a random class from the page’s date using UnixNano.

February 28 2025

REMOVED Two theme modules, photoswipe and hugo-video.
FIXED Many many many fixes went into the following shortcodes; newvideo.html, newgallery.html, newgalleryspec.html, newsingle.html. I’ve removed all references to those shortcodes as well.
UPDATED all pages in Blog, Bleets and Games.
CHANGED On the shortcodes that crop, I added the center process specification so fix my dislike of the generated thumbnails.

February 26 2025

ADDED new shortcode! newsingle.html along with lots of CSS to make it look good.

February 22 2025

CHANGED the <label> heading to a clamp/scaling font for better readability across devices.

February 21 2025

ADDED The CyberBuffalo Industries QuickBleet Gallery 9000 (patent pending)

February 20 2025

CHANGED The position of the introduction to the bleets section.

February 19 2025

CHANGED the layout of the games pages! No more vertical date
CHANGED the responsiveness of the games section
ADDED Color changing bullets on the games list depending on progress of the game
ADDED console icons on the games list
ADDED collapsable menu on the games section which goes away at 1000px
CHANGED additional little tweaks to the CSS

February 12 2025

ADDED clamp! Thanks to Rappy I’ve learned about a Clamp in CSS! The headings on the blog list pages have been reformatted using this handy tool to hopefully allow more readability across devices.

February 5 2025

FIXED the tags being displayed in the wrong font by splitting up listhead into mainlisthead & listhead.
FIXED the cyberbuffalotip font and spacing was a little off so I tweaked that
ADDED a new class, figureimg which will center and resize an image placed into a figures shortcode.

January 31 2025

ADDED A new option on the games page for a different kind of post, the article. This way if I want to write something about the 5 worst bosses in the Ninja Gaiden series, it separates it out from the games by year.
ADDED new partial, gamearticles.html

January 28 2025

RELEASED cbtheme2 theme 1.5!
ADDED Games Section! This is actually a fairly substantial update which would garner it’s own individual post (eventually). The games section flipped around the layout a bit. It’s listing the games by completion year on the left as well as a new category specific to the games section underneath it. The game pages can pull in Page resources from their bundles. They are displayed in chronological order from oldest to newest.
ADDED A new shortcode, gameposts.html. This orders the games by year.
ADDED A new set of shortcodes from Hugo Easy Gallery. I change the name of the gallery shortcode to galleries.html so it doesn’t mess with the established galleries already published. Also changed that figure shortcode to figures.html. This was done because the way I’m pulling in markdown files into the gameposts, they cannot use the established gallery shortcode, as page resources can’t access page resources. I need to add something that fixes this for video as well.
ADDED A new partial called gametag.html which builds the list of gameterms.

January 26 2025

FIXED The text in the camera section (was running off the card).

January 23 2025

ADDED Doto to theme
CHANGED HEADINGS to use the new font
CHANGED Font size, line heights and some other fiddly text business to make the site more readable.

January 20 2025

FIXED I guess the dates weren’t working on any of the list pages, and that has now been fixed!
CHANGED date/time on bleets to {{ .PublishDate }}
CHANGED li {list-style-position: inside;}
CHANGED background color for the links to the numbered images on the camera pages.

January 19 2025

CHANGED some additional CSS in relation to the BLEETS making them more responsive, also justified them to the right and made the container smaller. This change was to facilitate making them look more like what we’re used to, so if you were to screenshot one, it would have a more similar shape and look better on mobile.
CHANGED CSS to make the site wider on ipad sized screens 800 and below.
FINE TOOTS WAS TAKEN, I’M CALLING IT BLEETS!
FIXED a CSS mistake that caused all bullet lists to go away.

January 18 2025

FINE I’M NAMING IT TOOTS!
ADDED A GODDAMNED MICROBLOG SECTION. I’m calling “Notes” for now, but I want to call it faketweets, as its labeled. Maybe I’ll name it ’toots’ in the future.
ADDED a new card section on the left side, //Hyperlinks. I’m just trying to satisfy my 88x31 curiosity. With links to some of my social pages.
CHANGED the menu layout is now left-justified. This gives me room for expansion and isn’t too small on mobile.

January 12 2025

FIXED Responsiveness on mobile! I finally took my time and really went through those media queries and got everything situated. The menu just gets smaller, the summary wraps around the featured image, tags and dates go away because we don’t really need that information on a smaller screen. I also made the featured image bigger when the screen gets smaller. Happy with this.
ADDED a new image shortcode as I was getting frustrated with figure and the vanilla markdown.

January 11 2025

FIXED Navigation menu on mobile
ADDED Classes to the <p> tags on the listcard.html so they can be hidden for mobile

January 8 2025

ADDED New front matter parameter called defaultImage which lets me specify reoccurring icons for posts on the blog roll. Before I was copying them into each folder and titling them featured.jpg but now I can just set defaultImage='recipe.jpg' and it pulls it from the assets folder. I need to read more about the global resources and image processing because it didn’t do exactly what I wanted.
CHANGED how listitem.html partial handles setting the ‘featured’ image. This did, however, break the opengraph embeds which I still haven’t fixed.

January 5 2025

I have been working on figuring out the OpenGraph/embed stuff for a while but never made any progress. I finally realized what I was doing wrong. In my partial baseof.html I was including the internal template as opposed to my local OpenGraph template.

REMOVED {{ template "_internal/opengraph.html" . }} in baseof.html template
ADDED {{- partial "opengraph.html" . -}} in baseof.html template

The embeds are still not perfect, I’m working out what I need. I completely removed the entirety of the default opengraph.html partial and replaced it with a more simplified code.

  
  <meta property="og:type" content="website">
  <meta property="og:url" content="{{ $.Page.Permalink }}">
  
  {{- with or site.Title site.Params.title | plainify }}
  	<meta property="og:site_name" content="{{ . }}">
  	<meta property="twitter:site_name" content="{{ . }}">
  {{- end }}
  
  <meta property="og:title" content="{{ $.Page.Title }}">
  <meta property="og:description" content="{{ $.Page.Summary }}">
  <meta property="og:image" content="{{ .RelPermalink }}{{ .Params.featured_image }}">
  
  <meta property="twitter:domain" content="cyberbuffalo.neocities.org">
  <meta property="twitter:url" content="{{ $.Page.Permalink }}">
  <meta name="twitter:title" content="{{ $.Page.Title }}">
  <meta name="twitter:description" content="{{ $.Page.Summary }}">
  <meta name="twitter:image" content="{{ .RelPermalink }}{{ .Params.featured_image }}">

2024

December 26 2024

ADDED Hugo Video Shortcode to the site so I can embed locally hosted videos.

October 6 2024

I migrated my content over to the new theme structure. Things seem to be working just fine, with the exception of the summaries. I need to get the summaries to strip any previous formatting away.

CHANGED sidenav.html now includes code for a tag cloud. I like this better than just a straight list of tags. I have it set to only show tags with 2 or more uses. thanks to this site and the linked code.
FIXED {{ .Summary | truncate 240 | plainify }} plainify is the way we can strip away any formatting from a string.
ADDED responsive layout to the camera cards.

October 5 2024

There was a handful of bugs that I was trying to figure out when something happened to my site. I’m not exactly sure what happened, but it forced my hand to sort of redo a few things that I’ve been putting off.

CHANGED The menus are now auto generated with the exception of HOME. Defined in the config file, sectionPagesMenu = 'main'
CHANGED Moved all of my created shortcodes into the theme folder.
CHANGED Moved all archetypes into the theme folder.
REMOVED the path to a potential featured image in the /Blog section so a default image would show up.
REMOVED featured image out of default front matter for cameras.
ADDED default_camera.jpg
ADDED pagination.html to the partials, based off of this page.
REMOVED summaryLength from hugo.toml, as it does not seem to work.
ADDED in list.html partial, {{ .Summary | truncate 240 }} in order to control the length of the summary.
FIXED The new menus so they are ordered correctly by removing sectionPagesMenu = 'main' in the config and instead defining the menus manually.

October 4 2024

CHANGED streamlined shortcodes/camera_info.html. Was using 3 different variables to convey 2 different strings of variables that could all be the same thing. All camera info is being pulled off the data list using the camera nickname/tag I.E. “olympusxa” as opposed to “camera1” and “olympusXA”.
CHANGED shortcode camera_info.html, now no value is needed in the shortcode to pull in the data from cameralist.yml.
CHANGED all names in cameralist.yml to the new, arbitrary nickname system. This will aid in pulling in information for the camera-used.html shortcode which I’m building for the galleries.

October 1 2024

CHANGED Fixed the view of the camera section. Did this by customizing list.html inside the layouts/cameras
CHANGED Also fixed the view when clicking through any of the specific camera categories to match. This was achieved by creating layouts/categories/taxonomy.html which is the same as cameras/list.html.
CHANGED the sorting of the list of cameras ByTitle instead of ByPublishDate
ADDED a cool rotation hover to the polaroid style cards in camera.
CHANGED fixed the “recent posts” to only show blog posts, excluding cameras & galleries. {{ range ( where .Site.RegularPages "Section" "blog" | first 3 ) }}

September 29 2024

ADDED Archetypes for all three categories, ‘Posts’, ‘Cameras’ & ‘Galleries’

August 18th 2024

ADDED changelog.md to the about section.
ADDED ‘{{ urlize }}’ to the camera_info.html template which adds a “-” in between spaces, making the taxonomies easier to interact with.
ADDED the actual changelog to the end of the about index.md
ADDED a photo to the about page :D

August 14th 2024

ADDED the cbtip.html shortcode, which will insert a cyberbuffalo tip into the page. to use the tip, sidetext= is for the text that goes on the lefthand side of the page, tip= is the tip itself.
ADDED got the codeblock to wrap text down by modifying the CSS for pre.

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