I Went To a Cat Cafe and Also Tried Out an SSG

2/4/25

I went to a cat cafe!

To be honest, I didn’t know they were really a thing in the UK outside of huge cities. Um, so I guess I shouldn’t have been shocked to find one in Liverpool. I feel like I would’ve just kept walking on in most circumstances, telling myself that it would make no difference whether I went in or not, that I should save my money. Now that I’ve been, I don’t miss that £10 and I still keep thinking about all the little guys in there.

Plus you get free use of the coffee machine. Can’t turn that down.

I was supposed to write this a while ago, so there’s been another trip since then. I’ll try to keep each one separate, they both had their events. If you consider seeing a cat as an event.

…here’s the cats. They’re nice.

March 12th

March 30th

I think I took 3 mugs of hot chocolate from the machine and added espresso to 2 of them.

The reason this took ages to get out. I finally configured 11ty…!

…was what I so desperately wanted to put here, but, no. I didn’t figure out any static site generators. I’m quite bad at them, it seems.

11ty was, as implied, the main one I fucked around with, with little luck. Maybe I ought to practice JavaScript more before doing something like this.

Since the Petrapixel tutorial made my head hurt to look at, I ended up following this one from rentkotsuban.neocities.org instead. I think it uses Windows OS, which adds insult to injury on my Chrome OS stupid little chromebook. I need to give jailbreaking a real try.

Here’s a couple more tutorials that I at least skimmed:

I wanted to give Jekyll a shot but there’s already enough bloat on my laptop (ie. chromebook, a phone with a lid and keyboard) for me to risk installing more files. Even though Jekyll’s beginner guide is less intimidating than that of 11ty, it… okay I just had enough. I’m not at this level yet. I thought I could throw myself into the deep end and let it work itself out and I was wrong.

Besides, from what I gathered, all a static site generator does is generate HTML based on your text and a preexisting template. I have a copy of my blog’s template saved to upload when I need to, and I’m okay with adding

tags into my blog drafts. Unless there’s a way to fully automate image sizing (well, there probably is actually), I kinda do all of that myself. Like, I’m okay with doing a couple extra tasks.

I’d need to upload each file to Neocities once they’re generated anyway, so what’s the point? Unless I want to try deploying edits from Github, which, no. Nuh uh.Not touching that.

At least, this is how I see it with my current knowledge.

But, I do want to make this blog into, uh, an actual blog. I don’t care about tagging - if you click any link here, it’s at your own risk - and I don’t need anyone to be able to switch between posts more conveniently. I think the only other thing this current setup is missing is alerts to when I share something.

…I semi-recently found an RSS reader that actually works! Even if Feedbro is just a browser extension, that’s all I’m after.

My new task was to try and make an RSS feed for the things on this site worth notifying people of. So, just the blog posts, I think. After reading a couple tutorials, I just followed this one by XXX. I tested it in my own feed reader and it seems to work. Not much else to say here.

Anyway here’s the link. No idea who’s going to use it but it’s nice to have it simply existing.

https://eggmothsoup.neocities.org/blog/rss.xml

So… that’s everything for the blog…?


I got some other things when I was out, too. The first time, I saw this lovely little bat septum ring, and despite the price tag I regretted not buying it there and then. Probably due to the price tag, it was still there when I came back, so I snatched it up for myself. I’m having a little trouble removing my current septum ring for the first time (!!) in order to try this one on.

The Cat Cafe sold some memorabilia and following the theme of piercing jewellery I got myself some silver cat earrings. I think a huge part of the reason that I don’t experiment with jewellery much is because the stuff I already own has no appeal to me. It’s all cheap and girlish things that adults bought for me when I was a young teen, that I was on the brink of outgrowing as they were bought. I ought to put more effort into my appearance.