Iāve been wanting to blog more consistently. A lot of times Iāll go somewhere or watch something or whatever and think, āI should blog about that.ā But then I never do because the leap from thinking of something to actually doing it is not something Iām very successful at.
I thought if I did a weekly wrap up and had a set time to post a blog, that might help with the consistency. Hereās my first Weekly Wrap-Up.
iām so glad youāre interested in blogging more! i canāt wait to keep up with your posts.
i cannot believe you talked about antscanada! that youtube channel has been recommended to me everytime i use the site lately - it is SO dramatic! xD super entertaining though, especially since my boyfriend is into aquariums and terrariums.
super funny story about going to the movies with your son!! i always think about that whenever i go see a movie with my parents and thereās a sex scene - itās good to know that, on the other side, yāall are just as uncomfortable! LOL.
i hope you enjoy your vacation days :)
Oh thanks for the reminder! Iād been meaning to go find the link for the March carnival, and here you are posting it, much obliged. Now I just need to figure out what to write about.
Howās that project coming along?
Read your post, saw a lot of myself in it!
Have you ever thought of getting a āfeature phoneā? Might cut down on the addictive quality if you canāt do anything.
Lovely blog entry! I also have the ritual of making my bed every morning. Another thing I do, no matter how tired I am at night, is to clean all the dishes in the sink. Next day Divergent Rays really appreciates that!
My latest post is about perfume. 
Think I want to change the layout before writing the next blog post since itās been a year and I want something new.
Thank god actually managed to finish it afterwards. Itās a short project so only really took an hour, which makes the amount of time I procrastinated on it particularly embarrassing 
A feature phoneā¦ you know I never thought of it. On the one hand it sounds convenient, on the other I might need some of those missing features for stuff like school or work. Iāll consider it, thanks!
Hello. Great to see you here. Iām still none-the-wiser about perfumes, but the idea that someone would write a blog post about perfume shopping is so fascinating to me that I clicked through. Again. Itās just so fascinating to see someone so into something thatās so far away from everything I know anything about. Itās comforting to read it, because it speaks to a world far beyond my little corner of this vast universe of ours. So much to explore, learn and become passionate about.
My latest blog post is titled My writingās no good, Iām drinking the wrong kind of coffee and is just a short blurb about how easy it is to get caught up in doing all the wrong things.
And, as if to hammer home the point, but really entirely coincidental, I shared this short note about what happened when I opened up Finder to open an app yesterday. It didnāt go well.
Today I rambled about my troubles with dates in the Eleventy RSS plugin. Iām not sure why I had to make a filter (Iām probably missing something obvious), but at least I learned a lot!
Itās wild right? Iām not bothering with times just the dates, but year, string to ISO is a thing?
/** Converts the given date string to ISO8610 format. */
const toISOString = dateString => dayjs(dateString).toISOString();
/** Formats a date using dayjs's conventions: https://day.js.org/docs/en/display/format */
const formatDate = (date, format) => dayjs(date).format(format);
A delayed, quick Monthly Recap: February 2024
Wondering if I should start recording the books I read, and links I bookmarked during the month in these too. I see many people doing link round up posts these days. Iāve kinda been doing it with my seasonal posts, but theyāre every 3 months.
Another short one from me this morning.
Where did all the grown ups go?
Itās something Iāve been thinking about for a few years new. I donāt know if I managed to capture the feeling well, but at least itās out there now and not just in my mind 
@PinkGallica, I really liked your perfume post! It was fun reading about the different scents. Your experience with the perfume that smells like body odor reminds me of my disappointment with 4711 Original Eau de Cologne, which is a very old scent with a lovely citrus smell - in the bottle. Once on my skin it the smell morphs into Lemon Pledge, a furniture polish.
@Lars-Christian, I feel like Iām a grown-up in a chair with no idea how I got there or what Iām supposed to be doing. Why does everyone keep looking at me like I have answers?
Just uploaded my second Weekly Wrap Up.
Iām enjoying reading everybodyās posts. I had a go at relating to a 24 year old television show after watching it again, in full for the first time in 24 years.
Ahhh I hope this is the best place to post this. Mods, if I messed up please let me know!
I wrote about the cloudā why it doesnāt actually exists, who owns it, and itās feels like all the big tech leaders are hyping all these dumb technologies.
I would love to get your take
Well written, loved it.i think you captured the cycle of chasing the next big thing to keep a stranglehold on the market well.
The panicked demand for open sourcing things when theyāre at a disadvantage followed by raising the drawbridge under the guise of security when theyāre on top of at par with their peers has been par for the course for decades.
Apple did that to Microsoft by reverse engineering their document formats when Microsoft tried to make them completely incompatible with Mac software. Now they try to shut down devs doing the same thing to bring iMessage to Android.
I wrote a little about my feelings on flow state and why I donāt always like things that trigger it. Flow State vs Fugue State
Hereās a little something about my cats and their disregard for danger: Kitty Doesnāt Think Things Through.
Iāve been thinking about this myself, and tying it in with Black Sabbathās āComputer Godā, ā2112ā by Rush with its priests of the Temples of Syrinx, and how computing was originally done by buying time on mainframes to run programs submitted via stacks of punch cards and how some people seem to want to recentralize computing for their own profit. Itās not a cloud; itās a mainframe and you donāt need to know how it works because youāre not part of the priesthood.
I should probably write about this at greater length on my own site.
Something else I should consider for a post of my own. Iām one of the āgrown-upsā, but I donāt want anybody looking up to me. I have enough on my plate being the captain of my own soul; I donāt want to be admiral of anybody elseās. When my spouse was sick and needed me to take care of her, I was adulting for two and I didnāt like it. When my mother fell off a train and was crippled, I had to adult for her when my father wasnāt around even though I was still a kid myself.
If there donāt seem to be any grown-ups around, it might be because the people you expect to be grown-ups have figured out that being a grown-up sucks. Also, to paraphrase the XKCD comic, part of being a grown-up means you get to decide for yourself what that means. Nobody is obligated to be anybody elseās idea of a grown-up.
Heya!
Sharing my latest blog post that I also shared in my introduction.
An excerpt
Lowered tech literacy means that users are less empowered to question and change status quo of the web. Without users understanding what is happening in their computers, how systems work, where their data goes, users can not meaningfully discern the costs of their actions- nor are they empowered to seek out alternatives.