Finally got around to removing the links to my other websites from the wall. They have been there as filler for nearly 8 months. I replaced them with links to some of the games on the site. The easter egg is still there under those links though.
Also if you haven't tried it yet, click the "Back to Top" button on the wall. 🤣
Got Fartle up and working pretty good. It's on the menu, homepage, about page, sitemap, etc. If you can't find it, you won't have fun playing it.
In other news, I promised my self I was going to work on the custom captcha this week. I have a good idea of how to implement it, but it's going to be a pain in the ass. I'm starting to chicken out.
I think I'll work on the cookies consent banner and give you guys the option to not use them. That will be an easier fix.
This is a bit premature, but I have the Wordle-style game affectionally referred to as "Fartle" functional.
There is still a ton of work to do in order to make it pretty. It is however in a good state to play though if you want.
Just a warning though, it currently looks terrible on really small screens. I'll get it styled up nicely over the next few days.
Once it's in a better state style-wise, it will be added to the homepage and menu.
I deleted the FartDump Twitter/X account last year since I wasn't using this site at the time. Last month, I decided to bring it back, but someone had already taken over the old account and is now pretending to be me, lol. For some strange reason, they were even sending people here. I’d left the account name in this site’s header, so their profile actually looked legit.
If you use X, follow me at @fartdumpdotcom. That’s the official FartDump account now.
Not sure what their endgame is, but I appreciate the free advertising.
Next week I think I'm going to attempt to build my own captcha system. I really want FartDump to stay truly anonymous with as little or no tracking of you, period. Using the Google ReCAPTCHA does allow them to track you.
For now, it's a necessary evil to keep bots and spammers out of here. So, I will try my best to get that going ASAP!
I'll also be working on allowing you the ability to opt out of any tracking cookies from the Google ads. That won't be that difficult.
When I rebuilt FartDump last year, I wiped the slate clean. I have a working custom CMS that took me several years to build, but I hadn’t planned on needing all of its features when I first slapped the secrets up. It was just a fun little side project; people seem to like it somewhat, so that’s why I’ve been focusing on adding more fun things here.
However, I also threw together a generic sitemap.xml file, which I was manually editing since there were only a handful of pages on the entire site. That changed quickly.
Today, I decided to build a dynamic sitemap; the manual version was just getting the date changed at best whenever I made big edits. All the timestamps were neglected and left at 6 a.m. UTC. Now they’re not only accurate, but also hands-off; the new sitemap.php grabs the last edit time for each file dynamically and outputs everything correctly.
Small win for me. Too boring to put on the updates page.
I ordered some stickers today for my car. FartDump is about to be plastered everywhere in my near vicinity.
I decided not to put the actual URL because I want people to see the sticker, giggle, and then search for FartDump online. It's more fun if you have to look for it. I may create some QR code stickers to put next to it later. That would be fun!
Yesterday, I made a post on X about Grok posting antisemitic responses. I said:
So, xAI decided to train Grok on raw X posts and is now “shocked” it turned into a hate speech vending machine. Who could’ve predicted this? Oh wait; literally everyone who’s ever spent 10 minutes on this site. That's hilarious!
Just as soon as I clicked "Post," I received a notification that my account was temporarily flagged.
I've used social media for over twenty years and never had a problem until around 2022. Since then, I've had nearly every account shadow banned on nearly all major social media platforms. I sat in dismay this morning while reading the most openly racists comments imaginable on X. It's so surreal.
What a world we live in!
One day, Comic sans will make a comeback. Mark my words! It's the Nickleback of fonts.
My server crashed out hard this morning. All sites were down for about an hour. With some vigorous CPR and a little dry-humping, all is well again.
I uploaded the image from ChatGPT that you can find below this post to the ChatGPT subreddit. It had over 2000 views within the first hour. The only feedback I got was a single down vote.
That's when I realized that people are so insensitive and take life too seriously. I don't want to be a part of that world anymore.
FartDump was originally created as an escape from the corporate demi-gods of social media platforms; they censor anything funny or edgy.
I'm sick of their shit and tired of being ostracized for having an actual sense of humor. They can shove their dad jokes up their ass! Give me a good dirty joke any day, it doesn't make you a bad person for liking dark humor.
I will still be adding updates to the Update page, but will be diving a bit deeper on the feed, for anyone who cares. Hopefully, by the time the feed is put up live on the homepage, you will be able to comment on my nonsense as well.
I think this will be my new way of "Blogging." Setting up normal blog posts is so tedious, that I rarely do it anymore on my other websites. This is the way. No more setting slugs, creating feature images, obsessing over internal links, <h2> tags, coming up with catchy excerpts and fixing fuck-ups as soon as I hit publish.
If I mess up here, I truly don't care. I've wanted to create a micro-blog for a long time. Why did I wait so long?
I was attempting to auto generate a few new images for the homepage. The old ones were poor quality. The new ones ChatGPT were generating were hilarious. They looked like a guy sucking dick instead of whispering. The final outcome was still pretty bad, but that's how I like to roll.
What is this place? An uninhibited look at my take on the world. Why? Because the world needs less filtration and more honest takes.