Jekyll2026-04-17T15:22:00+01:00https://shockroach.uk/feed.xmlShockroachBeth's web development and art blogBeth MooreFirst stream of 20262026-04-14T00:00:00+01:002026-04-14T00:00:00+01:00https://shockroach.uk/2026/04/14/first-stream-of-2026Yesterday I streamed, woo! After a lot of self-encouragement! I worked on my Lorwyn themed Magic cards, as I want my Kithkin deck to have some good cards in but they don’t fit the theme. I finished off my card border and started drawing my commander Brigid, Clachan’s Heart wearing some Gauntlets of Light.

Work in progress of a pixel art Gauntlets of Light MtG card featuring a Kithkin

I did most of this art on stream but I’ve done a little work on her face today. There’s uh, still a way to go, but I’m trying to get braver about showing work in progress in the age of instantly generating images, both as a little evidence in case I am ever suspected of generating images, and so that people can have some insight at what my work flow is like, if that helps anyone. Not that it’s a good workflow that anyone should necessarily learn from, but I now feel like showing the human process is important and helps combat the idea that images should just pop into existence at the cost of the livelihood of artists and the environment.

I also shared this site on stream and got a bit of feedback that it wasn’t working great on mobile, so I’ve changed what size some things are. The gallery squares are half the size so it’ll look a little more similar to Instagram sizes, and I made the social link icons half the size to give me more room to expand the navigation if I add more pages. However I’m getting a bit tired of the complications of this layout so I will almost certainly be scrapping it when I make a new design.

Next task is to make my RSS feed link a nice button or something but now I need to organise the Blood on the Clocktower games this evening, get dinner started early, and prepare for a job interview tomorrow.

]]>Beth MooreBlogging doesn’t come naturally yet2026-04-01T00:00:00+01:002026-04-01T00:00:00+01:00https://shockroach.uk/2026/04/01/blogging-doesnt-come-naturally-yetI’m going to upload the new blog pages woo! OK still to do:

  • Pagination? Is it worth having a “next post” button??
  • Sorting by tags?
  • Probably a breadcrumb link
  • More pages!! A page about my stream? Streaming again??
  • Work on my redesign (very little done so far)

Today I’ve written out a code of conduct for people I play Blood on the Clocktower online with after a particularly frustrating evening. Maintaining a community is hard, I’ve been a hardcore rules person before and it hasn’t made me any friends, and being hands-off means that the people you like don’t want to hang around because their experience is being spoiled by people being obnoxious. I’ve played enough games now that I’m not desperate to let absolutely anybody play any more just so I can run a game, so I’m prepared to be a bit more exclusionary if people can’t improve their conduct.

In the future I’d love to make animated videos of my online Clocktower games, a project which I did make a start on but is a looong way off. It’s currently third place to web development and making custom Magic card art.

]]>Beth MooreJekyll and blogging2026-03-31T00:00:00+01:002026-03-31T00:00:00+01:00https://shockroach.uk/2026/03/31/jekyll-and-bloggingI’ve been learning how to use Jekyll to set up layouts for my site so I can quickly add new pages, instantly change the layout of all my pages, and add blog posts without using a CMS or a database. Now that I have that locked into my brain, I found word of other applications that do the same thing, and after reading a bit about them, I wonder if I’ll end up starting from scratch again with something else down the line. Oh well! Liquid is used by enough web applications that it seems good to get familiar with it.

I wasn’t sure if I would have enough to say to justify having a blog on my site, but it can’t hurt. It’s practice for when I do have something interesting to write about. I’ve been unwell for the past week or so and couldn’t concentrate on anything, but now I’m healthy I’m back figuring some site stuff out, and I want to cook up a more fun redesign to fit in with some fun indie web sites I’ve been browsing lately.

]]>Beth MooreTest2026-03-18T00:00:00+00:002026-03-18T00:00:00+00:00https://shockroach.uk/2026/03/18/testI’m going to write a post at some point! But I needed a little test post!

Lorem ipsum yada yada I can’t wait for pizza

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