commit daca55a6f11e2a0606a56ed15503ecb37bf40860
parent d4740de415aeb454a0076620e472d9288625b1bc
Author: Jake Bauer <jbauer@paritybit.ca>
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2019 22:10:25 -0400
Update homepage and roll.html
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2 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
diff --git a/pages/home.md b/pages/home.md
@@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
## Welcome to paritybit.ca!
-This is a website to host details about my projects, my thoughts on various
-subjects in computing and computer science, and it contains a bit about me for
-anybody who is curious to learn what I do and how I do it.
+Thank you for taking interest in my little corner of the internet. I am a
+student of computer science (<a href=about-me.html>read more about me here</a>)
+and I created this website as a place for me to post my projects, guides,
+configuration tips and tricks, rants and essays, and all manner of little
+things that I find interesting or think people should know more about.
+
+If you are interested and have the time, check out the stuff below. There may
+be something that interests you!
### Recently Updated
@@ -10,6 +15,19 @@ anybody who is curious to learn what I do and how I do it.
<a href="projects/dnd/roll.html">The D&D Dice Roller has been updated!</a>
+### What is a Parity Bit?
+
+Essentially, it is a bit (in the 1's and 0's sense) used for checking for and
+correcting errors in digital transmissions. Wikipedia has a great article on
+<a href="https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Parity_bit">Parity bits</a> if you want to
+learn more.
+
+### What Can You Find Here?
+
+While I compile a big list of the different things to find here, have a poke
+around the links in the navigation panel to the right (or above if you're using
+a small screen or CSS-less browser).
+
### Plans for the Future
Here is a list of what I plan to do so far:
@@ -29,10 +47,10 @@ a list of the organizations that I contribute to.
* Add a bit about the specifications of my systems and an inventory of my
hardware.
-This website is self hosted. Currently it is on a DigitalOcean droplet but it
-will be migrated to a physical server that I own in the near future. I expect
-that the availability of the website will probably only live up to the "one
-nine" standard (total owntime of 36.53 days in a year) which means that if you
-consider anything on this site worth more than a simple bookmark, you should
-probably download it (or you could recompile the pages yourself through cloning
-the git repository).
+This website is self hosted on physical hardware that I own. Therefore, I
+expect availability to probably only live up to the "one nine" standard (total
+owntime of 36.53 days in a year) which means that if you consider anything on
+this site worth more than a simple bookmark, you should probably download it
+(or you could recompile the pages yourself through cloning the git repository).
+I will try to post a large banner across all the pages when the website is
+scheduled to go down however not all downtime is planned.
diff --git a/pages/projects/dnd/roll.md b/pages/projects/dnd/roll.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
## D&D Simple Dice Roller
<script type="text/javascript" src=/js/roll.js></script>
+<noscript>Your browser must support or enable Javascript for this applet to
+function</noscript>
<p>This page is designed to make rolling dice quick and easy during any D&D
session. Need to roll many dice at once but don't want to have to bother with
