Liberated another post from the almost-done pile: how to use your bookmarks
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This post is awesome! Iām definitely guilty of under-utilizing my bookmark. Your example is so much more organized than mine have ever been 
It would be nice if there were a way to have a bookmarks view be the default on the new tab page or when you open a new window, maybe there is a good browser extension for that.
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Wish I could give this more hearts or maybe a raised fist.
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Oh thatās a great idea, yeah!
On Firefox, I can set it to show Recent Activity > Bookmarks, so thatās a bit random (I would prefer to see my folders) but itās more wholesome than sponsored links 
or even my most visited sites and it reminds me my bookmarks exist.
Hmmm if I save the bookmarks into the Bookmarks Toolbar, then I can see my folders at all times. Thatās a good shout - Iāll add it to the tutorial. Then my whole browser is set up for success! Cheers ^_^
You gotta keep it organised because the moment you start just bookmarking without filing in a folder, thatās when you never use bookmarks again - because itās a mess. I am Struggling with the effort of organising my old bookmarks, even as a bookmark fan.
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I also see that Firefox will let you use a custom page as your homepage - a nice web design project! - but not for every new tab, which is a shame.
(I suppose the idea is that a new tab is gonna be a new page at any moment so why load a whole page, but iād like to have the customisation option)
Anybody is welcome to link to anything of mine Iāve written almost anywhere.
Incidentally, since you mention on your website that you like stories based on Baba Yaga, you might be interested in knowing about Finding Baba Yaga, a short novel in verse by Jane Yolen. I had gotten a copy as a freebie at the 2018 World Fantasy Convention.
Unless youāve already read it.
I love Jane Yolen. I had not heard about this book, though, so thank you for the recommendation!
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RiNet | Kofola - The superior cola new post after a While
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today i finished up a blog post where i talk about embracing the small web for meaningful connections and living more intentionally with a healthy relationship with the internet: TheSmallWay.txt | the library of alexandra
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This one ended up taking longer than expected to writeā¦ Monthly Recap: April 2024
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Iāve read twice now, one more time in the morning!
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ahh thatās really great, I love it.
It reminds me a bit of Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport, which is sort-of a āself helpā book for changing how you relate to social media, but he frames it in terms of a personal philosophy - why are these your values & what are you doing instead - instead of just rules. & the sense of it being a philosophy actually helps you connect with it a lot more.
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Almost forgot to post my blog post from yesterday here: Iām writing about why I write for the writing challenge
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Itās about relationships, but not just digital ones, like Februaryās IndieWeb Carnival [#1 & #2]. I donāt like what I perceive the Internet to have done / be doing to peopleās approach to them. Itās most prominent online, but the digital always bleeds into the real.
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And day two, talking about an oracle deck I just got.
I really hate that my Dreamwidth posts end up generating as āCaptcha Checkā any time something tries to fetch a preview. I wonder if thereās a way to turn that off somewhere.
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This thread is a gold mine!
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I recently wrote Copy my Copywork where I discuss the reasoning why my website is open source.
It was inspired by reading Copy other peopleās copywork by Charles Villard.
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oooh the footer on your webpage is so pleasing, I canāt say what it is about it but itās just a satisfying thing to look at, really elegant
I like having the source code in a public repo. I donāt quite like having my blog posts in a public repo. Iād love to be able to have them separate.
Thereās something about someone cloning or forking my repo and getting all of that with itā¦
I have no issue about the 11ty config that makes it all work, cause I post about that and share with others who also help themselves to apply to their own projectsā¦
Great post!
I like having the source code in a public repo. I donāt quite like having my blog posts in a public repo. Iād love to be able to have them separate.
If youāre using git, couldnāt you put a .gitignore in your repositoryās root directory that ignores your posts directory? If you still wanted your posts under version control in a private repository, you could probably create a repository that get cloned to your posts directory.