Just in time for the month to end, I wrote a new blog post about principles to follow in my WIP static site generator. Though it can apply to much more than that.
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I just wrote an article about establishing a writing habit, and what it means to be creative these days. @brennan I mentioned a post of yours near the end.
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So think about that for a minute. You don’t need to create perfect things. You don’t need to even finish them. The imperfect, and the unfinished, and yes, the ugly, are all wonderful, human-crafted, beautiful things.
I especially loved this section! It’s so true. Perfectionism is something I’ve always struggled with (especially when it comes to writing). Trying to let go of that desire to make everything just so is hard, but I think I’m getting better at it with time.
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When I wrote that, I was definitely thinking about how the false perfection of AI-created things has given me not only permission but encouragement to be imperfect. And that is really freeing.
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A bit of a weird one, I noticed a funny optical effect which I have seen a million times, but never actually noticed, or understood (until now).
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I love diffraction! I plan on making a page just for diffraction gradients eventually ^^ I’ve also noticed a somewhat similar effect to yours, but in my case it resulted in a corona rather than points. My car has a sunroof, with a mesh cover for shade, and when I look at the sun through the mesh, it almost always has a corona (which is not there when I draw back the shade) . All the little holes in the shade cover must be having a similar effect to water droplets.
I believe having an astigmatism can also have these effects, I think most people know about the long ponts coming off of lights being a symptom, but I think it can also cause seeing cornae around streetlamps at night. In this context I think they are refered to as halos.
I’m glad you enjoyed it! I was actually going to message you a link individually just as a, “hey just letting you know I shared a link to your page” kind of message.
That’s a cool point about corona through sun shades. I might keep eye or myself to see if i can notice it
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Most software uses local files to store this stuff anyway, just in weird formats and locations like ~/.local/ that isn’t portable.
Something I have been meaning to try is to symlink state files like the firefox sqlite(?) stuff into Nextcloud or whatever. I’m not sure how effective this would be/how sync conflicts work.
People do these kind of trackers for books, media etc. but I have never seen one for perfume! Cool
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Totally agreed. I dislike the generative predictive text machines immensely, but this is like the ONE thing I can thank them for, haha. I’ll never deliberately make mistakes to prove my humanity, but I’m also not going to beat myself up about mistakes anymore either. If they happen, they happen. I’m not going to obsessively check and recheck my blog posts for errors. One proof read, and done!
It’s a day late, but I posted something brief for Terry Pratchett Day. He was such a big influence for me, and it still guts me that he’s gone. 
I can only imagine what he would have had to say about the state of the world today…
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I love this! I do something similar when I reflect on clothes that I wear and other hobbies.
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I’ve been busy but here’s some niche/cozy posts of mine:
Recap of my March 2026 journal system - kind of tl;dr (in a good way) - I still feel really good about the 3 journals I am using.
Sewing projects - just documenting some of the recent quick sewing projects I did - mostly cropping tees that I’ve been meaning to do + 1 additional craft.
Final Fantasy 14 fanfest - sort of a camera-roll recap of my weekend in LA going to fanfest with my friends. I recap some of the goodies I made for my friends at the end of the post (drew some stickers of our characters for trading and also made some badges of our characters).
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I’m only bringing you one tiara this week but it’s a stunner! On Wednesdays We Wear PINK
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I need this tiara almost as much as I need the goat tiara!!
@Moxie I’m sorry, I hope things get easier soon 
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It’s been a while since I’ve touched upon some heavy subject matter. But given the recent personal milestone, it seemed appropriate.
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A short write-up to commemorate the 10 year/10k followers milestone for my creative bots.
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i uhh tried writing a reply to one of @brennan ‘s post, its sorta rambly tho sry
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Yo this is so cool!! I actually didn’t know the current state of the Balatro mod scene, really interesting. I added a link to yr post at the end of mine :)
Also, you made me realize I missed out on talking about the actual limit of the OmegaNum library, which is 10↑↑1000. I’ve never seen anybody reach it because the game would crash way before reaching it 
i dont really follow the community currently, i just know the disdain for cryptid is pretty common because it is extremely poorly written and theres kinda a community meme about poorly made mods just slapping a large number on
(this displays all 723 up arrows in game)
actually no, thats the generic js OmegaNum library, the current talisman limit is 10{1000}10 (1000 up arrows) since ruby is literally insane
also a minor note, but technically there IS a mod that includes tree(3)
but its programmed to just call the win blind function instead lol
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