rhodochrosite
a website maker powered by #metalsmith ! peeled off the aloe dot gay project to become its own tool. find it on npm. try this template project . join the discord! this is the dev log, basically :)
thanks to fran for testing and development help and being the only other active rhodo user, hanna for working next to me and going on walks where we talked about the things we were working on when i was first conceptualizing this, avoset for trying it out and feedback chats, and everyone whos ever visited the site and especially if you dropped me a line about it :)
14 pages in rhodochrosite
the old readme
home/projects/rhodochrosite/oldreadme last edit October 1, 2025
this is the old readme that used to be on the node package and git repo. i replaced it with the [startup guide](startupguide) that i wrote a little bit ago ⋯
the old readme's tags: #:all #:rhodochrosite
a year of aloe.gay
home/blog/yearone last edit May 12, 2025
if you scroll alll the way back on the [list of all pages](/tags/all/), the oldest one is "[my bass guitar](/gearlist/bantam)," dated 5/4/24; followed by the [first post](post1) ⋯
a year of aloe.gay's tags: #:update #:aloedotgay #:rhodochrosite #:diy #:all #:blog
startup guide
home/projects/rhodochrosite/startupguide last edit April 26, 2025
this is a work-in-progress guide to **getting started** with rhodochrosite. it attempts to cover that which i feel most needs *explaning* ¶ ## intro ¶ rhodochrosite is a batteries-included, mind-mappy, multimedia-forward static site ⋯
startup guide's tags: #:all #:rhodochrosite
intro to rhodochrosite
home/projects/rhodochrosite/intro last edit February 28, 2025
> its like, if a website was a chair, and metalsmith was all the tools in a woodshop but in boxes and a big empty room, rhodochrosite is a woodshop thats ⋯
intro to rhodochrosite's tags: #:update #:tools #:inspo #:virtual #:meta #:all #:rhodochrosite
init
home/projects/rhodochrosite/init last edit December 14, 2024
ok no this does need its own project page. and here we are ! this is the first post in the project page for **rhodochrosite,** which is what i decided to name ⋯
init's tags: #:meta #:diy #:tools #:update #:all #:rhodochrosite
map making
home/projects/aloedotgay/mapmaking last edit December 2, 2024
so this little #update i just wanted to write up because its funny and kind of a peek into my *process ~*. so i recently added this [map](/map/) page to ⋯
map making's tags: #:rhodochrosite #:update #:markdown #:all #:aloedotgay
galleries
home/projects/aloedotgay/galleries last edit October 18, 2024
soo remember [last time](subtags) when i said i was gonna extract my drawings tag from my cohost export and post it here and use the subtags to index it by ⋯
galleries's tags: #:update #:rhodochrosite #:code #:art #:all #:aloedotgay
subtags
home/projects/aloedotgay/subtags last edit October 15, 2024
subtags ! its subtags ! here look ¶ - item ¶ - ##subtag1 ##subtag2 ¶ - item two ¶ - ##subtag1 again ¶ - and ⋯
subtags's tags: #:update #:rhodochrosite #:adhd #:meta #:tools #:all #:aloedotgay
pagination
home/projects/aloedotgay/pagination last edit August 21, 2024
its pagination! there's previous/next page links at the bottom of pages in subfolder collections now. i had felt this was really missing from the browsing flow. first new feature all summer ! ⋯
pagination's tags: #:rhodochrosite #:all #:aloedotgay
shifting hallways of the mind palace
home/blog/shiftinghallways last edit May 25, 2024
i like just wrote **"shifting hallways of the mind palace"** in [tags](/tags/) and i think thats kind of cool. grouping the same material in multiple ways kind of gives a ⋯
shifting hallways of the mind palace's tags: #:update #:aloedotgay #:rhodochrosite #:material #:virtual #:adhd #:meta #:all #:blog
rss feeds
home/projects/aloedotgay/rssfeeds last edit May 24, 2024
ok hey hi hello check it out! the site has a single [rss feed](/feed.xml) now. it's just the #update tag, as featured on the home page ! i think that's ⋯
rss feeds's tags: #:update #:rhodochrosite #:all #:aloedotgay
updates!
home/projects/aloedotgay/updates last edit May 13, 2024
nother feature. theres an #update tag ! this way i can manually tag stuff in and then have it display the latest ones. and put some of that on the front page, ⋯
updates!'s tags: #:rhodochrosite #:update #:art #:all #:aloedotgay
buckets
home/projects/aloedotgay/buckets last edit May 11, 2024
## buckets! ¶ theres a new feature to the site and its buckets. right now theyre in their simplest possible form, just a stylized directory listing. but it also scans over the ⋯
buckets's tags: #:meta #:rhodochrosite #:update #:adhd #:all #:aloedotgay
firstpost
home/blog/post1 last edit May 10, 2024
ok! third times the charm! haha. ¶ if youre keeping score at home this is the third time ive started development on this website, each time with a different static site ⋯
firstpost's tags: #:meta #:update #:aloedotgay #:rhodochrosite #:metalsmith #:all #:blog