Add Post "Project Facelift, New and Old"

Also committed some other unrelated code that doesn't have any particular effect.

_layouts/about.html

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         <h1 style="margin-bottom: 0.15em;">About</h1>
         {{ content }}
     </div>
-<!--    <div class="column">-->
+    <div class="column">
-<!--        <figure class="photo" style="height: 100%;">-->
+        <!--        <figure class="photo" style="height: 100%;">-->
-<!--            <img-->
+        <!--            <img-->
-<!--                    data-zoomable-->
+        <!--                    data-zoomable-->
-<!--                    loading="lazy"-->
+        <!--                    loading="lazy"-->
-<!--                    src="{{ site.baseurl }}{{ page.photo }}"/>-->
+        <!--                    src="{{ site.baseurl }}{{ page.photo }}"/>-->
-<!--            <figcaption>-->
+        <!--            <figcaption>-->
-<!--                <a href="https://www.instagram.com/chappiehd_ttv/">Not me, but my photo.</a>-->
+        <!--                <a href="https://www.instagram.com/chappiehd_ttv/">Not me, but my photo.</a>-->
-<!--            </figcaption>-->
+        <!--            </figcaption>-->
-<!--        </figure>-->
+        <!--        </figure>-->
-<!--    </div>-->
+    </div>
 </div>
 
 {{ page.bottom_content }}

_layouts/default.html

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         html, body {
             visibility: hidden;
         }
+
         {% if page.wide or layout.wide %}
         body {
             max-width: 60em !important;
@@ -55,6 +56,8 @@ layout: compress
     <a href="/about/">~/about/</a> :
     <a href="/projects/">~/projects/</a>
 </nav>
+{% if page.hide_header or layout.hide_header %}
+{% else %}
 {% if page.title %}
 {% if page.date %}
 {% if page._link %}
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 <h1>{{ page.title }}</h1>
 {% endif %}
 {% endif %}
+{% endif %}
 
 {% if page.date %}
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_posts/2021-02-25-project-facelift-new-and-old.md

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+---
+layout: default
+title:  Project Facelift, New and Old
+date:   2021-02-25 16:41:41 -0600
+tags: photography update
+---
+
+To be honest, I haven't been keeping up with any of my projects and I've grown complacent when it comes to Software Engineering. I'm not progressing,
+and I can feel that part of me wasting away, so I wouldn't look to this post for a grand new project or anything.
+
+Through December, I decided to make heavy visual changes to many of my biggest projects, creating custom banners, of which I am quite proud...
+
+[![/Paths/ Banner][paths-banner]][paths]
+
+The most advanced of them, the cells in the background are designed to mimic the real Paths project as closely as possible.
+The angled gradient stroke on the text helps break up the text on the background with all 
+
+If you want to see [the SVG form][paths-svg], Adobe Illustrator exports it perfectly!
+It's a shame though, [not all browsers support it][paths-svg-glitch], as I figured out on my laptop shortly after using a SVG.
+
+[![/phototag/ Banner][phototag-banner]][phototag]
+
+Besides being my first major project, this banner means something personal to me as every one of those photos in the background are *mine*.
+I took them with my own camera. You can find every single one on my [photography portfolio][photography-portfolio].
+
+[![/Boids/ Banner][boids-banner]][boids]
+
+The first banner I designed, I'm still not exactly happy with how it came out, but regardless, it works well enough I guess.
+
+[![/power-math/ Banner][power-math-banner]][power-math]
+
+A very simple banner indeed.
+
+[![/contest/ Banner][contest-banner]][contest]
+
+Yeah, I'm not super proud of this one either.
+
+To be clear, I am not normally a graphic designer - HTML & CSS is something I struggle with for hours and hours trying to get right 
+(I hope my efforts have paid off in all that you see), so making designs like this was both a challenge and a learning experience like no other.
+
+I'm so happy I did it, and I hope those who see it see the work I put in to make my projects look good. Fingers crossed I return to Illustrator for every major project.
+
+---
+
+I created [**power-math**][power-math] in order to create a method for me to practice simple and fast arithmetic problems among others.
+I designed it with LaTeX rendering in mind, to give it that feel of 'reality' other fonts can't give.
+Once again, another dark theme app since I'm lazy and don't know how to do light themes.
+
+Using Vue sped this process up *a lot*, and very quickly I had a working application with awesome visuals and animations.
+Additionally, since the project is completely client-side, so you can [practice with it yourself][power-math-pages]!
+
+<video autoplay muted>
+    <source src="/assets/img/power-math-demonstration.mp4" type="video/mp4">
+</video>
+I'm probably embarrassing myself quite a bit here with how slow I am - I wasn't kidding when I said I made this project so I could get better!
+
+![power-math settings][power-math-settings]
+The project is setup to support many different kinds of problems, each with their own difficulty settings, as well as the ability to completely disable them.
+On top of that, by hovering over each level of difficulty, you can preview what a problem might look like, latex supported!
+
+---
+
+This post was not posted on time correctly, so if anything seems out of place - that's why. I attempted to refurbish it
+so things read cleaner and aren't out of place, but I'm not perfect working at 1:40AM in the morning.
+
+[paths]: https://github.com/Xevion/Paths
+[paths-banner]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Xevion/Paths/master/.media/banner.png
+[paths-svg]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Xevion/Paths/master/.media/banner.svg
+[paths-svg-glitch]: https://i.imgur.com/ynZ5vqy.png
+[phototag-banner]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Xevion/phototag/master/.media/banner.png
+[phototag]: https://github.com/Xevion/phototag
+[boids]: https://github.com/Xevion/Boids
+[boids-banner]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Xevion/Boids/master/.media/banner.png
+[power-math]: https://github.com/Xevion/power-math/
+[power-math-banner]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Xevion/power-math/master/.media/banner.png
+[contest]: https://github.com/Xevion/contest
+[contest-banner]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Xevion/contest/master/.media/banner.png
+
+[photography-portfolio]: https://www.rcw.photos/
+[power-math-pages]: https://xevion.github.io/power-math/
+[power-math-video]: /assets/img/power-math-demonstration.mp4
+[power-math-settings]: /assets/img/power-math-settings.png