What's new on Splendide Mendax https://splendide-mendax.com Sun, 02 Nov 2025 01:06:55 -0500 20000 How to set your own colors for a Python word cloud. https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2025-11-02_custom_colormap_in_wordcloud.html Sun, 02 Nov 2025 01:06:55 -0500 Sophocles' Antigone, a play about the family, the state, and the daylight between the legal and the moral. https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2025-10-17_sophocles:_antigone.html Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:16:08 -0400 another themeable app for which I've written a theme https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2025-08-31_dopamine_theme.html Sun, 31 Aug 2025 23:33:25 -0400 an Obsidian snippet https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2025-08-28_title-less_callouts.html Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:50:28 -0400 why I switched to Obsidian, and also made a theme https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2025-08-26_camena.html Wed, 27 Aug 2025 00:31:32 -0400 once again, I try to enjoy them https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2025-08-25_static_site_generators.html Tue, 26 Aug 2025 00:14:27 -0400 I got tagged https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2025-08-24_blog_questions.html Sun, 24 Aug 2025 23:10:23 -0400 Cooked fruit is bad. https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2025-08-18_my_low_stakes_hot_take.html Mon, 18 Aug 2025 17:25:34 -0400 ...and not because of the fucking senators https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2025-08-11_you_should_care_about_dc_statehood.html Mon, 11 Aug 2025 23:20:17 -0700 I like messing with things, but nothing needs messing with https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2025-08-11_competing_impulses.html Mon, 11 Aug 2025 01:06:22 -0700 turns out, composers are good at this music thing https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2025-08-08_my_favorite_playlist.html Fri, 08 Aug 2025 22:44:12 -0700 user interactions on a static site https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2025-08-08_comment_boxes.html Fri, 08 Aug 2025 01:00:54 -0700 this is mostly an excuse to rec a song I like https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2025-08-06_favorite_bass_line.html Wed, 06 Aug 2025 23:48:16 -0700 today was one. https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2025-08-04_good_day.html Tue, 05 Aug 2025 00:02:48 -0700 my current rotation https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2025-08-03_albums_on_repeat.html Mon, 04 Aug 2025 00:10:20 -0700 another winner of a debut studio album https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2025-08-02_prelude_to_ecstasy.html Sat, 02 Aug 2025 17:02:16 -0700 An introduction https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2025-08-01_Blaugust,_round_2 Fri, 01 Aug 2025 22:45:32 -0700 a (belated) review https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2025-04-16_beloved Wed, 16 Apr 2025 22:46:31 -0700 keeping an eye on your goal is pretty essential (if harder than it seems) https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2025-02-18_blogging_for_traffic Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:41:08 -0800 my year, summarized https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2025-01-01_2024_in_review Wed, 01 Jan 2025 14:00:48 -0800 a layout for commentary surrounding text https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-12-31_commentary_layout Tue, 31 Dec 2024 16:13:06 -0800 Proteus is a mighty morphin' sea god https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-12-13_metamorphoses_8.732 Fri, 13 Dec 2024 17:28:10 -0800 how to make some of your own https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-12-12_cheap_art Thu, 12 Dec 2024 20:02:31 -0800 https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-12-05_tumblr's_place_in_the_wp_drama Thu, 05 Dec 2024 09:57:08 -0800 what do we mean by "we"? https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-11-11_what_is_us Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:58:38 -0800 I feel like I'm not emoting right https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-11-10_election_results Mon, 11 Nov 2024 00:00:51 -0800 one of my favorite bits of Latin poetry, translated for my dad https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-10-21_metamorphoses_15.871 Mon, 21 Oct 2024 01:20:11 -0700 so, that was a disaster https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-10-15_field_exam Tue, 15 Oct 2024 23:27:17 -0700 pumpkin pie filling as a stovetop custard https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-10-07_pumpkin_pudding Mon, 07 Oct 2024 20:16:55 -0700 another little script, this time based off a spreadsheet https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-10-05_js_thoughts_widget_(take_2) Sat, 05 Oct 2024 21:58:33 -0700 a little script for little thoughts https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-10-03_js_thoughts_widget Thu, 03 Oct 2024 23:59:03 -0700 made a new mystery theme for the spooky season https://splendide-mendax.com/pages/changelog.html Wed, 02 Oct 2024 18:39:24 -0700 verdict: fun but incredibly exhausting https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-10-02_teaching_week_i Wed, 02 Oct 2024 00:01:24 -0700 A bit of imagery as it appears in several published translations, plus my own attempts. https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-09-29_agamemnon_1090 Sun, 29 Sep 2024 22:46:21 -0700 Meliboeus is having a bad day, and I'm not sure Tityrus is helping. https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-09-28_eclogues_1.1 Sat, 28 Sep 2024 22:04:08 -0700 I continue to read things that are just barely not the things I said I was going to read https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-09-21_a_room_of_one's_own Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:21:54 -0400 Vonnegut as Euripides and the denial of sense https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-09-18_slaughterhouse-five Wed, 18 Sep 2024 09:21:36 -0400 the tetchier addendum to my last post https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-09-14_what_the_freshman_class_already_reads Sat, 14 Sep 2024 17:57:50 -0400 a response to a piece in the Atlantic that I found deeply disturbing https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-09-13_how_the_freshman_class_needs_to_read Fri, 13 Sep 2024 14:57:28 -0400 Atreus welcomes home his prodigal brother, but it's properly biblical this time. https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-09-10_thyestes_523_(take_2) Tue, 10 Sep 2024 16:22:01 +0000 testing out new ways to represent ambiguities in translation https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-09-07_translation_styles Sat, 07 Sep 2024 23:50:01 +0000 this is super useful if you are basically me, and dubiously interesting if you are not https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-09-05_js_random_passage_generator Thu, 05 Sep 2024 18:52:14 +0000 tl;dr: I got what I came for and had a good time in the process https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-08-31_blaugust_wrap-up Sat, 31 Aug 2024 18:27:47 -0400 ...and subsequent silver lining https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-08-31_fun_with_flights Sat, 31 Aug 2024 16:32:47 -0400 fifteen discrete good songs that fail to come together into a single good album https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-08-30_cacophany Fri, 30 Aug 2024 19:56:21 -0400 I taught classics to econ majors and it went great https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-08-29_guest_lecturing Thu, 29 Aug 2024 23:57:35 -0400 the chorus reflects on Hipppolytus' attractive qualities https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-08-28_phaedra_814 Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:33:27 -0400 how to change the default colors in Chart.js (a thing which took me an age to figure out) https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-08-27_color_in_chart_js Tue, 27 Aug 2024 23:02:41 -0400 starting off my reading project by breaking my own rules https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-08-26_the_little_prince Tue, 27 Aug 2024 00:46:42 -0400 Atreus welcomes home his prodigal brother. https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-08-25_thyestes_523 Sun, 25 Aug 2024 01:46:20 -0400 Odysseus receives advice from a ghost prophet https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-08-22_odyssey_11.109 Thu, 22 Aug 2024 23:57:04 -0400 the Golden Age sounds pretty damn nice https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-08-21_metamorphoses_1.100 Wed, 21 Aug 2024 23:50:55 -0400 Odysseus welcomes the sight of dry land https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-08-20_odyssey_5.395 Tue, 20 Aug 2024 22:31:44 -0400 Mezentius gets cocky; Orodes harshes his vibe. https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-08-19_aeneid_10.736 Mon, 19 Aug 2024 23:51:47 -0400 I said I wanted to get weirder with it, so this is me, getting weirder with it https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-08-19_hippolytus_555-64 Mon, 19 Aug 2024 00:20:45 -0400 oratio eius iam tum nihil aliud poterat videri quam solutum carmen. https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-08-17_ovid_the_lawyer Sat, 17 Aug 2024 23:52:29 -0400 Maude Latour's debut studio album is delightfully weird and I highly recommend it https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-08-17_sugar_water Sat, 17 Aug 2024 02:37:45 -0400 some of the things Kirk says in The Search for Spock are incredibly evocative of Carson's Eros the Bittersweet https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-08-16_oikeios Fri, 16 Aug 2024 15:41:28 -0400 defining my generation and a handful of what I consider to be characteristic experiences https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-08-15_generational_memories Thu, 15 Aug 2024 23:43:05 -0400 a handful of strange books I've read in the past few years https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-08-14_weird_books Thu, 15 Aug 2024 00:00:24 -0400 Callimachus dishes out metapoetic disses with style (and bees) https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-08-13_callimachean_metapoetics Wed, 14 Aug 2024 00:01:53 -0400 the emotional stakes of nonlinear narrative time https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-08-11_destiny_and_the_prequel Sun, 11 Aug 2024 23:59:15 -0400 a rather ambitious list of books I want to have read https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-08-10_reading_(modern)_classics Sat, 10 Aug 2024 18:36:01 -0400 how do prequels acknowledge and negotiate the weirdness of their temporal situation? https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-08-09_the_prequel_problem Fri, 09 Aug 2024 22:02:36 -0400 a bit of CSS to imitate the look of Amazon's Kindle app, in light and dark modes. https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-08-09_kindle_style_card Fri, 09 Aug 2024 00:58:32 -0400 a fabulously weird historical novel https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-08-06_sudden_death Tue, 06 Aug 2024 21:08:09 -0400 who I am and what I'm doing here https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-08-06_blaugust:_introduction Tue, 06 Aug 2024 01:57:55 -0400 a bit of CSS to mimic the look of Apple Books, in light and dark mode. https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-07-21_apple_books_style_card Mon, 22 Jul 2024 00:05:04 -0400 \"As soon as we die, we enter into fiction...\" https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-07-16_memory_and_historiography Tue, 16 Jul 2024 20:55:16 -0400 a simplified version of this site's post index https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-07-11_js_page_index Thu, 11 Jul 2024 03:38:06 -0400 poem of all time https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-06-12_nox Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:47:43 -0400 Elisa Gonzales' debut poetry collection is solid, but not excellent https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-05-28_grand_tour Tue, 28 May 2024 18:51:10 -0700 a bit of CSS to mimic the look of a (slightly crunchy) scanned PDF. https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-05-08_scanned_pdf_style_card Wed, 08 May 2024 21:18:45 -0700 how I made mine https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-04-27_js_theme_switcher.html Sat, 27 Apr 2024 02:57:48 -0700 The 50th anniversary of Portugal's Carnation Revolution. https://splendide-mendax.com/2024-04-25_25_de_abril_sempre.html Thu, 25 Apr 2024 19:19:28 -0700 a bit of css for stealing Wikipedia's look https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-04-21_wikipedia_style_card.html Sun, 21 Apr 2024 21:15:55 -0700 My specialest little Roman guy. https://splendide-mendax.com/pages/shrines/ovid.html Sat, 20 Apr 2024 12:07:43 -0700 Why are they like this? https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-04-19_ancient_language_textbooks.html Fri, 19 Apr 2024 01:44:56 -0700 I have A Thing™ about yokes in literature. https://splendide-mendax.com/pages/shrines/yokes.html Thu, 18 Apr 2024 01:51:18 -0700 or: why not use my real name on the internet? https://splendide-mendax.com/posts/2024-04-13_internet_pseudonimity Sat, 13 Apr 2024 00:21:09 -0700