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there is a manga i cannot quite finish reading. i keep it around with me, as it lowkey deteriorates through wear in my backpack, and i do not do a good job actually reading it. it’s just there, waiting to be finished as i put it in and out of a bag.

fortunately, i actually started reading it recently, and i might even finish it in the next couple of days, considering i don’t have much to do at work this week.

[#100DaysToUnwind 18/100]

NOTE: this was originally published on 9th of august, 2026, and chronologically this was an 8th #100DaysToUnwind status. i accidentally set it to 9th of june, 2026, messing up the order, so now i will mess it up even more by bumping the date, perhaps to further amplify the spirit of this specific status.

p.s. i am still on this challenge, life is just getting in a way slightly.

feeling like pulling back on the inner workings of my statuses, both on the main page and in the status archive, because i think their implementation is actually a bit cursed.

you know how the statuses are sorted by date in reverse chronological order, and then grouped by month? you’d think i’d be storing some kind of timestamps to do so, but, in fact, i do not store date values. in fact, the “date” values have actually been string values all along!!!

this is what my typical front matter looks like:

title: my statuses are scuffed for an amazing reason
publicationDate: 9 aug 2026
originalId: 20260809a
tags:

all of these front matter variables are hand-written, no automation involved.

publicationDate here has a self-explanatory syntax and serves a dual purpose: it is displayed in each status title, and it is also the string that is converted to Date object in my SSG front matter, which is then used to group every status i have by the month of a year.

originalId uses the yyyy-mm-dd date format at the start, and ends with a letter, which goes from a to z in alphabetical order. the letter is only ever used when i post multiple times a day, so in case that happens, the first post gets labeled as, for example, 20260607a, while the second one gets labeled as 20260607b. likewise, originalId also serves a dual purpose: it is used for sorting the posts, and it is also the way you can reference them in the status archive. if you know the syntax, you can just go to the status archive, see this post, for example, and add its id to the link, so it looks like this: https://remblanc.com/statusarchive/#20260808a.

tags currently does not have a semantic meaning, and is only used for doing some wacky styling, like with the silly [definitely comic sans!] and flipped tags i tend to use in the certain sections of the site.

suffice to say, it all kinda works!

[#100DaysToUnwind 8/100]

to keep up with the pace for the challenge of writing 100 posts a day, i had set myself an arbitrary minimum target of writing things for 30 minutes. i try to follow it as much as i can, and it surely helps to set a minimum goal to hit, but it also feels like i am trying to jam time into a schedule that already feels very tight. i am kind of sabotaging myself with rigidity here to the point that i’ve been already skipping plenty of days for this challenge. won’t deter me from completing it tho!

[#100DaysToUnwind 17/100]

i got a bit hooked on energy drinks. monster energy in particular. i remember being told that it is basically the devil at some point, but here i am, trying to cheat code my way out of poor sleep. i should probably sleep better lol

[#100DaysToUnwind 16/100]

i’m skipping a bunch of days, i know, but at least this time i am writing while being awake since 4am xd. i actually went to bed quite early, which has surprisingly worked out for me well, as sometimes i wake up too early and still need more sleep afterwards. i had ample time to chill and… mostly just spend time watching ppl on twitch. it kinda sucks when some of the coolest people are outside your waking hours yk

[#100DaysToUnwind 15/100]