redo date parsing stuff; add about section to homepage

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 pagetitle: yummers
 lang: en
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-# how do you evenly tile a column?
-12 Jul 2026
+# how do you evenly tile a column? {data-date="12 Jul 2026"}
 
 While walking through town the other day, I saw a pillar that looks a bit like this:
 
@@ -189,8 +188,7 @@ $$
 e = 2r \tan{\frac{\pi}{n}}
 $$
 
-# histogram-preserving tri-planar projection
-31 March 2026
+# histogram-preserving tri-planar projection {data-date="31 March 2026"}
 
 I've been messing around with Burley's "On Histogram-Preserving Blending for
 Randomized Texture Tiling" ([link](https://jcgt.org/published/0008/04/02/)) for
@@ -242,8 +240,7 @@ The astute reader might find that just increasing contrast after the blend
 would produce a similar result, and I'm inclined to agree. The only possible
 advantage that this method has is that it doesn't demand fine-tuning.
 
-# using linux as a desktop os in 2026
-9 Feb 2026
+# using linux as a desktop os in 2026 {data-date="9 Feb 2026"}
 
 About a month ago, my PC's boot drive died. I had been running Windows 11 with
 moderate dissatisfaction for a few months, so I decided to switch over to
@@ -479,8 +476,7 @@ on Vulkan,~~* is what's keeping me from just deleting Windows.
 
 The Linux desktop is really good. You should give it a try.
 
-# hemi-octahedral impostors
-14 Jan 2026
+# hemi-octahedral impostors {data-date="14 Jan 2026"}
 
 *Note: this blog post is only like half way complete. I may or may not circle
 back to it. The stuff on octahedral mappings is all finished, but the
@@ -768,8 +764,7 @@ wrong.
 *Note: I stepped away from this project and don't plan to revisit it soon. If I
 do, I'll post updates in a followup and link to it from here.*
 
-# 6 wave dispersion relations with derivatives
-21 Sep 2025
+# 6 wave dispersion relations with derivatives {data-date="21 Sep 2025"}
 
 Tessendorf's 2005 paper
 "[Simulating Ocean Water](https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~jtessen/reports/papers_files/coursenotes2004.pdf)"
@@ -989,8 +984,7 @@ derivations of each derivative:
     Divide numerator and denominator by $\rho$ (or p in wolfram) to make them
     match.
 
-# meow meow meow meow
-10 Sep 2025
+# meow meow meow meow {data-date="10 Sep 2025"}
 
 meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow'meow meow meow meow meow. meow
 meow meow meow.
@@ -1103,8 +1097,7 @@ meow
 * meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow,
   meow 8.8% meow meow meow meow meow ~55% meow meow meow meow.
 
-# rasterized ray marching at scale
-11 Jun 2025
+# rasterized ray marching at scale {data-date="11 Jun 2025"}
 
 I've long had the dream of creating high resolution chains on characters with
 raymarching. The problem is that Unity's object transform is based on the
@@ -1357,8 +1350,7 @@ can correct for that in your SDF.)
 ![Visualize baked data in
 Unity.](./images/2025_06_11/fake_origins_39.jpg){width=80%}
 
-# how much CO2 do American cars produce?
-23 May 2025
+# how much CO2 do American cars produce? {data-date="23 May 2025"}
 
 TLDR: About $1.520 \cdot 10^{12}$ kg/year. This increases the CO$_2$ in the
 atmosphere by about $0.048$% per year.
@@ -1489,8 +1481,7 @@ we have arrived at the same conclusion as the "entrenched academics": that the
 change in CO$_2$ in the atmosphere over the last 200 years is due to human
 activity.
 
-# "big llms are memory bound"
-22 May 2025
+# "big llms are memory bound" {data-date="22 May 2025"}
 
 There is wisdom oft repeated that "big neural nets are limited by memory bandwidth."
 This is utter horseshit and I will show why.
@@ -1571,8 +1562,7 @@ In conclusion:
    bandwidth and compute dictate throughput in inverse proportion to model size.
 3. People on the internet (especially redditors) are fucking stupid.
 
-# meow meow meow meow
-14 Apr 2025
+# meow meow meow meow {data-date="14 Apr 2025"}
 
 meow meow meow meow meow meow meow meow. meow meow meow meow, meow meow
 meow meow meow meow meow.
@@ -1583,8 +1573,7 @@ meow meow; meow, meow meow meow meow meow meow meow.
 
 meow meow meow meow meow. meow meow meow. meow meow.
 
-# riding crop
-7 Apr 2025
+# riding crop {data-date="7 Apr 2025"}
 
 ![Image of a 3D model of a riding crop.](./vr_assets/riding_crop/cover_photo.jpg)
 
@@ -1595,8 +1584,7 @@ the gumroad page for setup instructions.
 Gumroad suspended my account over this product. Yes, over a fucking
 *riding crop*. That's why it's hosted here. Enjoy the 100% discount <3
 
-# a panoply of frameworks
-3 Apr 2025
+# a panoply of frameworks {data-date="3 Apr 2025"}
 
 I want to use electron. I know that raw CSS sucks dick so let's use a
 framework. Bootstrap sucks so let's use tailwind. Oh wait tailwind has a
@@ -1611,8 +1599,7 @@ Good thing I actually read the electron docs.
 
 I want to die.
 
-# electron first impressions
-1 Apr 2025
+# electron first impressions {data-date="1 Apr 2025"}
 
 Occasionally I want to build some throwaway app for use by other people.
 CLIs are nice and all, but they're hard to launch from VR, and most people
@@ -1647,8 +1634,7 @@ was around 30 MB with my entire STT app built in. Worse but IMO within the
 realm of reasonability. Time to first draw is pretty good - under a
 second according to the eyeball test.
 
-# hello world :3
-20 Mar 2025
+# hello world :3 {data-date="20 Mar 2025"}
 
 <video autoplay loop muted playsinline>
   <source src="https://yummers.dev/images/danser.webm" type="video/webm">