You ever get the feeling that youâre sharing too much? Yeah, this is probably one of those. First world problems ahead.
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Sometimes I feel a bit jaded about web projects. I started learning the C programming language this year and itâs been really fun. I tried to use this as a thread to weave in some other thoughts around that. Couldnât help the self-deprecating âblogging is hardâ intro. Maybe itâs time to move beyond that for the next one :)
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Every discipline accumulates unchecked facts and apocryphal anecdotes like that. Theyâre pre-internet memes.
I started this post in October, and itâs finally finished enough to publish~ Interestingly, it ends up connecting to personal websites.
Iâve now managed to write 2 blog posts for Writing Month (so far), which exceeds my original goal of a single post - huzzah!
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No kidding. Since writing that blogpost I actually found the specific book where a lot of these misconceptions originate from and I feel like I discovered the zodiac killer. (Itâs the book Homo Ludens from 1938, for the record)
Published a (big) post on my adventures in going from Wordpress to a custom made static site generator. I just wanted to document as much of the process as I could, so itâs long and not particularly well-structured. But I guess someone here might enjoy it anyways!
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I appreciated this for two reasons.
First, I enjoyed the journey as you documented it. I havenât joined the static-generated bandwagonâI still use server-side PHP with a DBâbut this was fun to read and âlearnâ along with you.
Second, you wrote âWordpressâ instead of âWordPress,â which apparantly Matt hates. IYKYK 
Thanks for sharing!
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I wonder if Matt hates that more than RMS hates seeing GNU/Linux referred to as âLinuxâ. 
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Lmao they really are two sides of the same coin
Iâm a love addict who totally fell for someone in the space of three emails and I had a little chat with myself about that.
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Wrote one of my housekeeping posts: Housekeeping â Manu
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I absolutely love this description. I love the fact you described yourself as a âlove addictâ and I love the chat with yourself.
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Iâm in an odd place where I donât want to bring my negativity into a space I love so much. I know weâre encouraged to blog when we are having a tough time. So thatâs what I did. It is short piece describing depression. Iâm probably not the only one here going through something, and if you happen to be someone going through this too. I just want you to know that even though weâre all kind of on our own separate journeys with this. That how we get better will be unique to us, but we can with time, feel better, and we all deserve that
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Hah, thank you! Server-side PHP with a DB is great. I just wanted to reduce my âsysadminâ load as I try to work with my own virtual machine. (Eventually I want to self host from my own home, so want to make that side of it as simple as possible!)
And as for the lowercase âPâ: IK ;)
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Iâm coming to love it here, too, and one of the reasons is that it allows us to be our whole selves. Trust me, @emma , I donât lead a perfect life. Youâre not alone in having these types of feelings.
Also, I like your description of depression feeling like wet clothes. To me, it feels like the leaden apron they put on you at the dentist before they take x-rays, just an inexorable feeling of being pressed down. But your description is more visceral: heavy and cold.
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Wrote a little something: Small scale is the best scale â Manu
And since itâs 11:24pm I guess I can stop working and go to sleep 
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Eventually got around to finishing something I started ages ago: Stop buying shit part two
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Do [the things you spend your money on] benefit you more than those youâre buying from? If not, why not?
I have never thought to ask this question, but itâs a really great one!
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Human connections can only happen at a small scale and low speed.
You know, I often forget about the âhuman connectionâ part of the internet. Fundamentally, Iâm interacting with a metal box that doesnât breathe or eat or react in a biological way, and so I lose track of my own humanity. [Such as staying up too late, for example. 
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In other words, I forget the reason that Iâm on the web which is, after all, to make human connection. And youâre right: itâs easy to forget that when youâre always trying to scale, to reach as many people as you can, etc.
But relationships really are best when theyâre based on quality over quantity, arenât they? Your post was a really good reminder of that.
I loved it, is what Iâm saying.
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Iâve been trying (and somewhat failing) to spend less time on social media and more time writing emails to people. It feels very anachronistic and the delay in replies is absolutely jarring at times, but the possibility of that human connection seems so much higher. Social media seems so performative, by comparison, and even responding to people directly via blog entries still seems a bit off to me; Iâm coming around on that last point though.
Put more simply, I big agree on small scale.
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