finally seeing some progress on the new prototype. i’ve got the engine which drives the thing and makes it work underneathwise better fleshed out.
it’s so flexible, but proportionately complicated. the more flexible this thing gets, the crazier it’s gonna look under the hood.
right now it can do a lot though. more than the last incarnation of mars could, even. and that was a pretty spiffy little site. doesn’t look like much, but the sheet amount of control, for both author and visitor, is definitely nifty. the beauty of it is that at a glance, it looks like any other better-than-crappy site. you’d never know how cool it is. unless you ran it for yourself. but it takes some degree of being able to comprehend what all the wires and cranks and hoses and nozzles are for. which, i think, is exactly why mars has gotten 400 downloads and generated zero revenue.
the main thing about this new engine is that it:
mainly, though, i just need something a little cleaner and more, ahem, standards-compliant for when people look at my piss-poor resume. look, i love laughter and all, but i’m sick of being the only one not doing any laughing in interviews.
