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@@ -21,11 +21,20 @@
 		<main>
 			<h1>projects</h1>
 			<p><a href="/">back to home</a></p>
+
 			<p>
-				list of some of my personal projects.<br />
-				just because a project is in this list doesn't mean i'm proud of it. i put projects
-				that i think people would be interested in here.
+				a sample of some of my personal projects of varying degrees of complexity,
+				silliness, usefulness, and quality.
+				<br />
+				i make a lot of niche things that i can't possibly fit in here. for those you're
+				better off checking my <a href="/#contact">public git profiles</a>.
 			</p>
+			<p>
+				being an open source nerd and linux desktop believer, i also contribute to other
+				projects in my free time! it's most of what i use
+				<a href="https://github.com/slonkazoid">my github</a> for.
+			</p>
+
 			<ul class="projects-list">
 				<li>
 					<details open>
@@ -33,10 +42,7 @@
 						<table>
 							<tr>
 								<td>description</td>
-								<td>
-									blazingly fast markdown blog software written in rust memory
-									safe
-								</td>
+								<td>blazingly fast blog software written in rust memory safe</td>
 							</tr>
 							<tr>
 								<td>source</td>
@@ -74,7 +80,7 @@
 							</tr>
 							<tr>
 								<td>slocs</td>
-								<td>1.2k+ rust</td>
+								<td>2.3k+ rust</td>
 							</tr>
 						</table>
 					</details>
@@ -126,6 +132,9 @@
 						</table>
 					</details>
 				</li>
+				<!-- dracut-sshd-tpm -->
+				<!-- blag -->
+				<!-- blogin -->
 				<li>
 					<details open>
 						<summary>silly-png</summary>
@@ -142,7 +151,7 @@
 							</tr>
 							<tr>
 								<td>languages</td>
-								<td>rust, posix sh</td>
+								<td>rust, bash</td>
 							</tr>
 							<tr>
 								<td>keywords</td>
@@ -162,11 +171,12 @@
 							</tr>
 							<tr>
 								<td>slocs</td>
-								<td>150+ rust</td>
+								<td>200+ rust</td>
 							</tr>
 						</table>
 					</details>
 				</li>
+				<!-- silly-build -->
 				<li>
 					<details open>
 						<summary>CelestePatcher</summary>
@@ -266,7 +276,7 @@
 						<table>
 							<tr>
 								<td>description</td>
-								<td>webhooks for my server</td>
+								<td>kitchen sink daemon my server</td>
 							</tr>
 							<tr>
 								<td>source</td>
@@ -475,144 +485,12 @@
 							</tr>
 							<tr>
 								<td>slocs</td>
-								<td>900+ html, 150+ css</td>
+								<td>1200+ html, 200+ css</td>
 							</tr>
 						</table>
 					</details>
 				</li>
 			</ul>
-
-			<h2>other stuff i could not count as a "project"</h2>
-			<ul>
-				<li>
-					<a href="https://github.com/slonkazoid/spy-pet-checker"
-						><b>spy-pet-checker</b></a
-					>, check if any of the servers you are in is present in spy.pet's database
-				</li>
-				<li>
-					<a href="https://gitlab.com/slonkazoid/snippets"><b>snippets</b></a
-					>, a collection of scripts and scraps that i don't want to rewrite each time
-				</li>
-				<li>
-					<a href="https://gitlab.com/slonkazoid/avt"><b>avt</b></a
-					>, ffmpeg wrapper to record screen with audio losslessly on X with minimal
-					overhead (and more)
-				</li>
-				<li>
-					<a href="https://git.slonk.ing/slonk/weird-express-logger"
-						><b>weird-express-logger</b></a
-					>, request logger in the form of an express.js middleware. it has a pretty cool
-					log format and supports processing multiple requests at the same time and
-					updating their status on the terminal as they complete. the implementation is
-					really.. <i>javascript</i>.. though
-				</li>
-				<li>
-					<a href="https://gitlab.com/hyron-devs/hyron-deploy"><b>hyron-deploy</b></a
-					>, deploy your sites to the cloud (any floppa-files or bingus-files instance)
-					:rocket:. chatgpt generated a lot of this project's code so i don't count it as
-					mine
-				</li>
-				<li>
-					<b>personal patches</b>, i write patches for some of the software i use and
-					sometimes even upload them to my gitlab. here are a few:
-					<ul>
-						<li>
-							<details>
-								<!-- prettier-ignore -->
-								<summary>sway-slonk-git (<a href="https://gitlab.com/slonkazoid/pkgbuild-sway-slonk-git">pkgbuild</a>)</summary>
-								my most infamous pkgbuild. it's just sway-git but it adds my
-								<a href="https://gitlab.com/slonkazoid/sway-patches"
-									>sway patches</a
-								>
-								which includes the extremely useful <code>env</code> patch i should
-								contribute upstream sometime and stuff to fix the bugs as they come
-								from git
-							</details>
-						</li>
-						<li>
-							<details>
-								<!-- prettier-ignore -->
-								<summary>wlroots-slonk-git (<a href="https://gitlab.com/slonkazoid/pkgbuild-wlroots-slonk-git">pkgbuild</a>)</summary>
-								fixes a (maybe more than one?) memory corruption bug and adds the
-								legacy wl_drm protocol back
-							</details>
-						</li>
-						<li>
-							<details>
-								<!-- prettier-ignore -->
-								<summary>linux-zen-slonk (<a href="https://gitlab.com/slonkazoid/pkgbuild-linux-zen-slonk">pkgbuild</a>)</summary>
-								linux-cachyos inspired linux-zen pkgbuild<br />
-								adds flags in the form of environment variables to configure the
-								build process
-							</details>
-						</li>
-						<li>
-							<details>
-								<!-- prettier-ignore -->
-								<summary>mkinitcpio-utils-slonk (<a href="https://gitlab.com/slonkazoid/pkgbuild-mkinitcpio-utils-slonk">pkgbuild</a>)</summary>
-								1. add the missing cryptargs options (<a
-									href="https://github.com/grazzolini/mkinitcpio-utils/pull/18"
-									>merge this PLEASE</a
-								>)<br />
-								2. add a duress password<br />
-								more info available
-								<a href="https://ck.katzen.cafe/notes/9riufsldq5wra1nu">here</a>
-							</details>
-						</li>
-						<li>
-							<details>
-								<!-- prettier-ignore -->
-								<summary>iwd</summary>
-								adds a memory leak. hackaround for a bug that made it segfault on my
-								server<br />
-								<pre lang="diff">
-diff --git a/src/wiphy.c b/src/wiphy.c
-index 766df34..86eacbe 100644
---- a/src/wiphy.c
-+++ b/src/wiphy.c
-@@ -1902,7 +1902,19 @@ static bool wiphy_get_driver_name(struct wiphy *wiphy)
-        }
-
-        driver_path[len] = '\0';
--       wiphy->driver_str = l_strdup(basename(driver_path));
-+       //wiphy->driver_str = l_strdup(basename(driver_path));
-+       // forgive me for this
-+       char* str = malloc(9);
-+       str[0] = 'T';
-+       str[1] = 'E';
-+       str[2] = 'S';
-+       str[3] = 'T';
-+       str[4] = driver_path[len - 4];
-+       str[5] = driver_path[len - 3];
-+       str[6] = driver_path[len - 2];
-+       str[7] = driver_path[len - 1];
-+       str[8] = '\0';
-+       wiphy->driver_str = str;
-
-        for (i = 0; i < L_ARRAY_SIZE(driver_infos); i++)
-                if (!fnmatch(driver_infos[i].prefix, wiphy->driver_str, 0))</pre
-								>
-							</details>
-						</li>
-					</ul>
-				</li>
-			</ul>
-
-			<h2>future project ideas</h2>
-			<ul>
-				<li>
-					<b>silly-files</b>, bingus-files but backed by a custom distributed replicated
-					ref-counted storage implementation in rust, also supporting notes, editing
-					files, accounts, file privacy, autodelete, encryption, etc etc
-				</li>
-				<li>
-					<b>silly-blog</b>, bingus-blog but a complete blogging platform with an RSS
-					feed, post editor, comments, JS, database, and whatever else i can fit in it
-				</li>
-			</ul>
-			<p>yes, it seems like silly-* means "more web bingus-*"</p>
-
-			<h3>under construction</h3>
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