diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 9259b04..98a11ba 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -4,13 +4,13 @@ SRC_DIR = src
 PAGES_DIR = $(SRC_DIR)/pages
 BLOG_DIR = $(SRC_DIR)/blog
 DIST_DIR = dist
+BUILD_DIR = build
 
 PAGES = $(notdir $(wildcard $(PAGES_DIR)/*.html))
 BLOG_PAGES = $(wildcard $(BLOG_DIR)/*.md)
 TARGETS = $(addprefix $(DIST_DIR)/,$(PAGES))
 
 all: $(PAGES_DIR)/blog.html $(TARGETS)
-	rm -rf $(DIST_DIR)/template.html
 
 watch:
 	while sleep 1 ; do \
@@ -18,12 +18,13 @@ watch:
 		  | entr -d make -f ./Makefile ; \
 	done
 
-mkdist:
+mkdirs:
 	mkdir -p $(DIST_DIR)
+	mkdir -p $(BUILD_DIR)
 
-template: $(SRC_DIR)/start.html $(SRC_DIR)/nav.html $(SRC_DIR)/side.html | mkdist 
+template: $(SRC_DIR)/start.html $(SRC_DIR)/nav.html $(SRC_DIR)/side.html | mkdirs
 	cp -r $(SRC_DIR)/styles $(DIST_DIR)
-	cat $(SRC_DIR)/start.html $(SRC_DIR)/nav.html $(SRC_DIR)/side.html > dist/template.html
+	cat $(SRC_DIR)/start.html $(SRC_DIR)/nav.html $(SRC_DIR)/side.html > $(BUILD_DIR)/template.html
 
 $(PAGES_DIR)/blog.html: $(BLOG_PAGES) $(BLOG_DIR)/start_blog.html $(BLOG_DIR)/end_blog.html
 	pandoc -f markdown -t html $^ -o $@.tmp
@@ -31,8 +32,9 @@ $(PAGES_DIR)/blog.html: $(BLOG_PAGES) $(BLOG_DIR)/start_blog.html $(BLOG_DIR)/en
 	rm $@.tmp
 
 $(DIST_DIR)/%.html: $(PAGES_DIR)/%.html | template mkdist
-	cat $(DIST_DIR)/template.html $(PAGES_DIR)/$*.html $(SRC_DIR)/end.html > $@
+	cat $(BUILD_DIR)/template.html $(PAGES_DIR)/$*.html $(SRC_DIR)/end.html > $@
 
 clean:
-	rm -rf dist
+	rm -rf $(DIST_DIR)
+	rm -rf $(BUILD_DIR)
 	rm -rf $(PAGES_DIR)/blog.html
diff --git a/src/pages/links.html b/src/pages/links.html
index 8b38e02..0925e47 100644
--- a/src/pages/links.html
+++ b/src/pages/links.html
@@ -1,17 +1,21 @@
 <main id="links">
   <h1 id="mainHeading">mount /dev/links</h1>
 
-  A page with my personal categorized awesome list of links.
+  a page with my personal categorized awesome list of links.
 
-  <h2>Link aggregators</h2>
+  <h2>link aggregators</h2>
     <p>
-      <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com">Hackernews</a>
-        Quite common but mostly nice articles of CS/Math related things
+      <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com">hackernews</a>
+        common but nice articles of cs related things
     </p>
-    <p><a href="https://lobste.rs">lobste.rs</a> More programming related links.</p>
+    <p><a href="https://lobste.rs">lobste.rs</a> more programming related links</p>
+    <p><a href="https://hackers.pub">lobste.rs</a> meta aggregator of lobsters+hn+mastodon</p>
 
-  <h2>Comics</h2>
-  <p>
-    <a href="https://xkcd.com">xkcd</a> The classic
-  </p>
+  <h2>blogs</h2>
+  <h2>comics</h2>
+    <p>
+      <a href="https://xkcd.com">xkcd</a> classic
+    </p>
+
+    <span id="updated">updated: 2025-07-15</span>
 </main>
diff --git a/src/pages/now.html b/src/pages/now.html
index 62f3936..ee22286 100644
--- a/src/pages/now.html
+++ b/src/pages/now.html
@@ -1,18 +1,32 @@
 <main>
     <h1 id="mainHeading">mount /dev/now</h1>
 
-    This page contains all projects I'm working on right now. As a reminder and incentive to keep going!
+    things i currently work on (maybe)
 
     <h2>Projects</h2>
     <ul>
-        <li>This website</li>
-        <li>Colemak Split Keyboard <a href="https://git.rhetenor.de/rhetenor/tastarut">Git</a></li>
+        <li>this</li>
+        <li><a href="https://tixy.land/">tixy.land</a> inspired shader on dot-matrix controlled by old calculator</li>
     </ul>
     <h2>Education</h2>
     <ul>
-        <li>Colemak Keyboard Layout</li>
+        <li>jtag debuggers</li>
+    </ul>
+
+    <h2>old projects</h2>
+    <h3>finished</h3>
+    <h3>on-hold</h3>
+    <ul>
         <li>French</li>
+        <li>Italian</li>
         <li>Swedish</li>
     </ul>
-    <span>Last updated: 01.05.2024</span>
+
+    <h3>gone<h3>
+    <ul>
+        <li><s>own ergo split keyboard <a href="https://git.rhetenor.de/rhetenor/tastarut">git</a></s> - bought one</li>
+        <li><s>learning colemak</s> - hjkl in vim</li>
+    </ul>
+
+    <span id="updated">updated: 2025-07-15</span>
 </main>
diff --git a/src/side.html b/src/side.html
index 24754e9..a561b09 100644
--- a/src/side.html
+++ b/src/side.html
@@ -1,34 +1,15 @@
 <aside>
-    <section aria-labelledby="updates_heading">
-
-        <h1 id="updates_heading">Updates</h1>
-        <ul class="outer_list">
-            <li>
-                <h2>2025-02-13</h2>
-                <ul class="inner_list">
-                    <li>updated Style</li>
-                    <li>add blog()</li>
-                    <li>add beliefs()</li>
-                    <li>add content</li>
-                </ul>
-            </li>
-            <li>
-                <h2>2024-05-08:</h2>
-                <ul class="inner_list">
-                    <li>updated style</li>
-                    <li>main() content</li>
-                    <li>more links()</li>
-                </ul>
-            </li>
-
-            <li><h2>2024-04-28:</h2>website created</li>
-        </ul>
-    </section>
-
     <section aria-labelledby="tools_heading">
         <h1 id="tools_heading">Tools</h1>
         <ul class="outer_list">
             <li><h2><a href="https://awesm.sh">awesm.sh</a></h2></li>
         </ul>
     </section>
+
+    <section aria-labelledby="updates_heading">
+        <h1 id="updates_heading">Updates</h1>
+        <ul class="outer_list">
+            <li><h2>2025-07-15:</h2>website created</li>
+        </ul>
+    </section>
 </aside>
diff --git a/src/styles/aside.css b/src/styles/aside.css
index 420e107..f2caf16 100644
--- a/src/styles/aside.css
+++ b/src/styles/aside.css
@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ aside {
     max-width: 20%;
     height: 100%;
     overflow: hidden;
-    margin-right: 1vw;
-    margin-top: 3vh;
-    //width: 18%;
+    margin-right: 2vw;
+    margin-top: 2.5vh;
+    width: 13vw;
     border-right: solid;
     position: fixed;