Just donāt quit the web. Iād miss your writing.
Thanks. I might fall silent for a time, but I donāt think Iāll outright quit the web.
Iām thinking of going on hiatus in November and December, though. I want to reorganize my site a bit.
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aw man! november is my indieweb blog carnival month! 
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Iāll probably still be writing, but not in the git branch for the current version of my website. But I can always switch to that branch to do a post if the theme appeals; there are a few months that I skipped because I just wasnāt feeling it.
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Iām totally not a fan of the dev dev blogs where everything is a technical post. I love the blogs that have those sprinkled in.
I enjoy sharing a technical post, these arenāt for the sake of being technical but sharing something that Iāve achieved and figure others will find helpful.
I have been trying to get back in the swing of more āthis is what I did this weekendā type posts. That used to be all I wrote about.
One exception are the blogs that have a single post about how they setup their blog. I think this is a great idea for a new directoryā¦
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Iām not sure it itās me getting older of things getting worse: Thoughts on the new iOS control centre ā Manu
If one blogs about small bits of tech staff here and there itās fine. Itās just annoying to find endless blogs with devs only writing about dev tools and dev setups and dev workflows. āHow to install library Xā, āHow to implement feature Yā, āHow to do Z in Pythonā
And donāt get me wrong, itās great that those exist and iām sure are helpful to someone. Itās just annoying to find so many of them.
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Been trying to play more TTRPGs but all my friends are busy, so I played solo on Twitch and explained how I set everything up behind the scenes, including my interactive, on-screen digital dice roller: Lost Letters
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Iāve been getting increasingly frustrated with the direction Mozilla and Firefox have been going for a while, but the recent weather widget and AI integration was the final straw.
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A fairly basic post on my personal blog with a list of what Iāve been watching lately. I havenāt blogged in about a month so really this is just to crack the silence. Iāll keep ye posted about my Dog Day Afternoon afternoon.
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itās like on the gopher internet - half of the sites are about what a wonderful protocol gopher is and requests to visit again. constructive information - zero. something similar can be observed on the regular internet, but with frameworks, oh how wonderful bootstrap is (until you understand that 2 kilobytes of your code can replace it), all these things are boring to the point of losing your pulse. I want more ideas, clean code, more optimization, and interesting design solutions, not a plastic standard design but something native, from the heart and soul. I want human thoughts. but 90% of blogs are made for the sake of loot. and this is annoying. I have a very bad financial situation, but I will never allow myself to place ads on the site
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It is obnoxious, but this is what we get for telling developers that blogging will help them get (better) jobs.
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I think Iām in the same boat now and Iām generally looking for other kinds of content. But to be fair, dev blogs of the āhow to do X with Y in Zā formula are pretty much what kept me afloat for the better part of my time as a beginner programmer. The fact that they exist and can be helpful seems more important to me than the notion there are too many of them.
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So today marks the first time I dedicated myself to making sites (aka the first time I ever made a site and posted it for everyone to see.)
Velvetās site is officially a year old so whoop-de-doo. I just had a lot of thoughts since then, it was hard for me to look back and find the words to say about everything. I feel like I havenāt talked about everything I needed to, despite the fact I was yapping a lot. Anyways, hereās to another year
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I have a couple of new blog posts up on my site.
This one is about me getting into tamagotchis,
and this one is about me diving into houseplant care.
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Yes they do have a reason to exist. Itās just annoying when those blogs are the overwhelming majority AND they donāt have other non-dev content on it. Itās just dev stuff all the way down.
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Unfortunately, the tech industry seems to attract people with a tendency toward monomaniacal obsession, and it shows in developersā blogs. They live, breathe, eat, piss, and shit code. We donāt need to replace developer with AI; we already have techies doing their damnedest to make robots of themselves.
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What a cool thing to do! I liked all the pics but especially the Lego galaxy.
venting a bit about my frustration and happiness with being medicated while lamenting work accommodations: medicate.exe
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I took last week off but Iām back this week with the Weekly Wrap Up. Even if you have no desire to read the blog post, go check out the cool link I posted at the top of the entry. One of the people I follow made this awesome thing thatās like a doll maker but for medieval manuscripts! Itās so cool!
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