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site/blog/estradiol-delivery-methods.md

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+---
+title: Estradiol Delivery Methods
+timestamp: 2023-05-28T16:00:00.00Z
+tags: [trans, hrt]
+desc: A comparison of the various ways I've taken estradiol since starting HRT.
+header_image_file: cat.jpeg # TODO: placeholder image
+header_image_alt: placeholder
+draft: true
+---
+
+I thought it might be useful to write out my experiences with the four methods of taking estradiol I've tried.
+
+- patches
+  - wouldn't consistently stay on me
+  - could feel the effects wearing off 3-4 days after application
+  - insurance sucks
+- sublingual pills
+  - worked alright, except:
+  - could feel them wearing off ~5-6 hours after taking a dose
+  - apparently hard to measure levels? had one test at ~200 mg/ml and another at 400+ mg/ml at same dosage
+- swallowed pills
+  - could not get ideal levels with a reasonable number of pills, but:
+  - couldn't actually feel them wearing off even at 12 hours between doses
+- injections
+  - holy shit these are great
+  - was kinda nervous the first few times I injected myself, but I got used to it
+  - cannot feel it wearing off between doses
+  - levels are actually good??
+  - insurance sucks pt. 2

site/blog/so-now-i-have-a-blog.md

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+---
+title: so now i have a blog
+timestamp: 2023-06-09T16:00:00.00Z
+tags: [meta, technical]
+desc: I added a blog to my site.
+header_image_file: cat.jpeg # TODO: placeholder image
+header_image_alt: placeholder
+draft: true
+---
+
+So now I have a blog on my site. I don't really have any plans to post here regularly, but idk maybe that'll change in the future.
+
+That's pretty much it as far as the non-technical side of things goes.
+
+## The Technical Side of Things
+
+I haven't really written anything about how my site works before, so this is also going to contain some general information about the site as a whole.
+
+`zyl.gay` is a static website built with a custom static site builder I built for it. It started by taking Markdown pages and rendering them on top of the appropriate template.
+
+When I added the [images section](/images/) to the site I added the first abstraction on top of this: YAML files with the relevant metadata for the image (including a short but unstyled description) which then get rendered not only into pages for the individual pages, but also a paginated display for all the images _and_ a method to view images by tag.
+
+To get blogs working I modified the image page code to be generic over provided resource types, so really the images and the blog posts are rendered the same way, just with different configurations.