I finally managed to program the picture gallery and it was a whole mess. So much so that I decided to dedicate a whole update jump to this new feature, even though it has nothing to do with index.php and its sorounding logic and is almost completely separate from the rest of the website.
I changed maybe 5 lines of code in index.php, but that's it. 25% of the image gallery code is borrowed from index.php, for switching between the index and gallery view, and the other 75% of new php code are functions for handling image files and generating tables. I borrowed and subsequently modified the original code from https://davidwalsh.name/generate-photo-gallery. I didn't bother implementing thumbnails, sending the raw image files straight to the visitor, and I changed my code to use tables instead of whatever cursed stuff they used, which didn't even work correctly for some reason. The html is pretty self explanatory and not really part of the update, but complements everything to make it look neater and tidier than what the underlying code might suggest.
The delayed release can be partially attributed to the solar eclipse.
