Jekyll2026-08-10T19:52:04+00:00https://dataterminals.github.io/blog/feed.xmldataterminalsto sparkle in the rubblemundane2026-08-09T00:00:00+00:002026-08-09T00:00:00+00:00https://dataterminals.github.io/blog/2026/08/09/mundanei feel like if there’s anything more to the mundane… brainless… luxury surveillance and mistreatment and debasement and disenfranchisement, the mundane material excess cultural fatness, raw culturally obese-in-the-brain schlock that describes the average texture of one’s daily life as literally any american, especially working class ones, then it only comes from just… idk honest to god disruption. like nobody here is stumbling upon anything profound by stating that you’re a person in america who should never underestimate their own need for convenience, it truly is disgusting, its like people’s consumptive tendencies here are rooted in nothing more but larping as exploiters of others. like we can’t do shit in life unless we have basically an indentured servant do it for us, except now everyone can have one in a never-ending chain of labor and fulfillment. so idk i dont feel very fulfilled. i think one of the broader issues right now is that the obscenely wealthy stopped feeling as if they needed to be classy and to contribute to society; like most of them just feel like they don’t owe us shit, even though their entire life is basically on rent from the vast swath of working class america. dudes like rockefeller and carnegie were shitheads by every stretch of the imagination, sure, and they also donated wealth to at least idk. “bring art to the masses”. figuring that “well shit if I do nothing for these people what happens when they come for me with the pitchforks” and now we’ve just imprisoned ourselves in a pillow-fort, non-exitable, where it doesn’t matter what you think, because you can’t do shit about it, and we’ve already marketed a reality to you where resisting against that is just another, fractal level of consumption itself. welcome to the loop

]]>pyramid ocular unlidded insignia2026-08-09T00:00:00+00:002026-08-09T00:00:00+00:00https://dataterminals.github.io/blog/2026/08/09/pyramid-ocular-unlidded-insigniatheres something so morbid about how i see a torrent marked as 2026 for a movie and, my brain just has this urge and this demand to get it, just because it’s new, just because of the general state of how greedy companies are over media now that you’re owning nothing and being happy lol. its like i get it, and know im about to see a recognizeable face being old. knaben has the 2026 jackass front and center and i already know im about to see no bam margera (he’s sober!) and johnny knoxville beginnig to look like the grandpa character he played in the older jackasses lol

disclosure day already seems really annoying just because i thought it was going to be some cool cloverfield esque alien reveal and instead its just a pretty woman making chortling noises with her throat and running from the feds, it’s such a blueball for a first-contact movie (i havent watched it im probably wrong)

anime girls were way cooler back when real people couldn’t become one, and it wasn’t the only job available for people who want to own a home in the USA in their lifetime. its either embarrass yourself in front of a phone on a tripod or spend $3,500 on a bouncy anime girl pngtube lol. only then will you be able to afford dental work

]]>welcome2026-08-06T00:00:00+00:002026-08-06T00:00:00+00:00https://dataterminals.github.io/blog/2026/08/06/welcomei appreciate you taking the time to actually click through this if you get that far. i have a lot of energy for writing and creating and it much of the time, it’s mostly for me. so everything you see here is sort of like… openly knowing that a third party observer can peek into a the world and see me in front of my vanity and mirror set. thats most of what people seeing what i produce, like… it’s delivery of it.

A looping glitch animation — a figure at a desk torn apart into magenta and cyan scanlines.

]]>Colophon2026-08-05T00:00:00+00:002026-08-05T00:00:00+00:00https://dataterminals.github.io/blog/2026/08/05/colophonScaffolding post — it exists so every styled element has somewhere to be seen, and so there’s a file to copy when writing the first real one. Delete it, or keep it as a reference. Nothing depends on it.

The structure here is Jekyll’s minima theme, unchanged: a header with the wordmark and nav, a reverse-chronological list of dates and titles, and a three-column footer. The styling is the dataterminals palette — oxblood, bone, terracotta — over the same looping background the landing page uses.

Writing a post

Drop a file in _posts/ named YYYY-MM-DD-some-slug.md, with front matter:

---
layout: post
title: "The title, in quotes if it has a colon"
---

The date in the filename sets both the publication date and the URL, which resolves to /blog/2026/08/05/some-slug/. Anything dated in the future stays out of the build until that date passes, which makes scheduling a post a matter of naming it correctly.

The type scale

Third-level heading

Body text runs at 1.02rem over 1.75 line-height on a 660px measure — the same width the landing page uses, which lands at roughly 70 characters a line. Long enough not to feel cramped, short enough that the eye finds the next line.

Fifth-level heading

Below the fourth level, headings stop being serif and become tracked uppercase in the faint ink, because a small serif heading reads as emphasis rather than structure.

Inline elements

Links look like this, set in terracotta with a hairline under them — visible without hovering, since a hover-only underline disappears against a moving background. There’s bold, italic, inline code, and strikethrough.

A blockquote borrows the sub-tagline’s voice: serif, italic, dimmed, held off the left margin by an ember rule.

  • Unordered lists
  • take faint markers
  • so the text leads
  1. Ordered lists
  2. number in the same ink

Code

Fenced blocks are highlighted by Rouge, in a warm palette matched to the site rather than the usual cool defaults:

def parse_manifest(path: Path) -> dict[str, Entry]:
    """Read a mod manifest and index its entries by id."""
    with path.open(encoding="utf-8") as fh:
        raw = json.load(fh)

    entries = {}
    for item in raw.get("entries", []):
        entries[item["id"]] = Entry(
            name=item["name"],
            version=item.get("version", "0.0.0"),
            requires=tuple(item.get("requires", ())),
        )
    return entries

Lines longer than the measure scroll inside the block instead of widening the page:

2026-08-05T14:22:09Z  WARN  loader  entry 'tfw.workbench.compat' declares a dependency on 'tfw.core>=2.4.0' but the resolved graph pins 2.3.11 — continuing with the older version

Tables

Field Type Notes
id string Unique within a manifest
version semver Defaults to 0.0.0 when absent
requires list Resolved depth-first, cycles rejected

Images

Any image dropped in assets/ and referenced with a leading slash gets a hairline border and rounded corners:

![Alt text describing the image]({{ '/assets/some-image.png' | relative_url }})

That relative_url filter matters — it prepends /blog, which is what keeps links working both here and on a local preview. Bare /assets/… paths break in one of the two.

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