📝 June 2026 Blogroll: Share your blog posts!

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What’s going on, Internet? What’s the latest on your blog? Share it here!

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The Weekly Wrap Up is posted! Links this week include a dress knitted from wood, a memorial iPod where you can scroll through the songs and play them, and rocks painted to look like snacks and pop culture items. Plus, as usual, I listened to, read and watched things.

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I ran 25km:

Run Comfy Numb

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This is technically my last post of May, but I’ll post it here anyway. :slight_smile: Some quick, partially fleshed out thoughts on “selfish” web design (i.e. putting one’s own aesthetic needs and preferences first).

Edit: Categories on my site are now slugified (can’t believe I overlooked that, d’oh!), so I had to edit the post to fix the link.

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Good luck with the hip surgery! If you don’t already have one, raised toilet seats are helpful during recovery. Reacher / grabber tools, too! You basically want to avoid bending forward more than 90 degrees.

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Love the new design and your write-up!

My site’s simplicity stems from deciding to start with HTML and site structure and not managing to graduate to major CSS design yet, but I like it. I’m going to try to remember the idea of being “selfish” if I ever get around to working on it~

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Thanks for the good luck wishes and the suggestions! I have 2 grabbers - an extra in case I drop the first grabber. :laughing: I also have a raised seat on standby in case I need it.

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Thank you! I love your site as well. It’s very motherfuckingwebsite.com, minus the profanity. :slight_smile: (Aside, this line never fails to make me laugh: “‘Good design is as little design as possible.’ - some German motherfucker”). I think simple sites are actually some of the most beautiful sites to look at and maintain.

Don’t get me wrong, I also really enjoy visiting elaborate, cluttered, whimsical, visually-impressive sites as well, but they’re kind of like other people’s high-energy huskies: fun and adorable in small doses, but I wouldn’t want one living in my own house. I prefer sharing my day-to-day space with lower-maintenance pets. If that makes any sense.

I sometimes wonder if I have some form of mild neurodivergence, because I need linearity and predictability in all things (even web design) to feel completely at peace. I’m prone to getting distracted and overwhelmed by stuff like visual noise, lots of stuff to click on, changes in routine, etc. Minimal sites make me feel so calm, and I find them so much more accessible.

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A grabber for the grabber is a great idea!

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lol, I’m kind of the opposite. I need visual simulation on a website or else I get bored :sob:

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I hope your surgery went well!

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small charlie update ft. backstory & photos

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In which i overreact on my garbage site so I can be normal about it IRL

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A short rant about a particular book cover texture. If you know you know.

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I relate to this! I have also found that indie web aesthetics and retro/pixel heavy designs often interfere with the content. For me the appeal of the indie web is the writing, not the visuals. I end up using reader mode a lot on indie sites tbh :laughing:

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I also make frequent use of reader mode, haha. There are some busy backgrounds out there (I suspect chosen for mobile or smaller screens) that literally make me cross-eyed.

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I did a little write-up on a project I made that blew up a little.

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a while back it was trendy in the research to talk about individuals in organizations who inhabit multiple spheres. Sometimes they were called “border-crossers” or “boundary-crossers” (positive connotations). Those folks in an organization are literally worth gold. They’re the designers who walk to another building to “go check in with the engineering team”…

I wish more people understood this. As a prospective student, I told an admissions person that I hadn’t chosen a major yet and was torn between environmental bio and interior design.

She laughed (a big laugh, not a little giggle) and it stung. When I ended up a bio major and art minor, I got annoying “Oh, that’s… different” comments nearly every time I told someone. One medical student asked me condescendingly, “But what are you going to do with the minor?”

TLDR: people who can move between two “worlds” are awesome.

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Those people sound incredibly close minded, Jesus. Can people not have have a variety of interests? I was going for a chemistry major in college with an art (and math) minor. Thankfully I didn’t get any weird comments for it, though I did have an art student and art professor who were sure I’d change my major to art. Nah. Ironically I probably wouldn’t have dropped out my senior year if I did (I couldn’t figure out a research project I was passionate enough about), but I knew I didn’t want an art career.

The “what are you going to do with the minor” is crazy too. It’s a minor :sob: I did an art minor because I wanted to take art classes because I like art and wanted to take the opportunity. It’s not that deep. I did end up vibing much more with the art students than my chem major peers though.

To me science and art have always felt connected to me, especially in history with people like Leonardo Da Vinci. Scientists who drew their own diagrams to illustrate their experiments, observations, or theories. Even now textbooks have drawn visuals. Studying the beauty of nature can be done with a paintbrush or the scientific method.

(Sorry for going off topic, I did want to make a similar reply to your actual blog post about the topic when you shared it, Manatee, but I never got around to it)

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