Just a short one: some grainy pictures of the Aurora Borealis
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Ha, thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
I recently made it possible for visitors to select a minimal theme for my website. I talk about that briefly in my latest post, and discuss why I think it’s important to at least consider giving visitors more choice on the personal web. 
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I’m looking at those photos on my phone, and they look crystal clear to me! What gorgeous shots. I wish the lights were more visible where I live… we are technically able to see them occasionally, but clear nights are few and far between.
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I put together a walkthrough on how to add a verified link to your Mastodon profile, and also how to include an author badge when someone links to your site or a blog article.
There’s also an interactive tool for checking if you added the necessary code correctly.
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I love the new css edits you’ve made to your blog btw!!
I enjoyed reading your post about systems. I really love the last part where you mention doing an action because you want want to be a person who does that said action. I feel this way when I think about the hobbies/activities I prioritize.
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I resonate hard with this!! The only thing that actually ever worked for me was Beeminder. The consequence of paying money if I fucked up was the only thing that had me stay consistent. I actually maintained a Beeminder blog for awhile years ago, where I went over the systems I was using.
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Yikes, I forgot to post this entry I made in March. I planned on making it public after the major update for my main site, but I just did so now. I feel that it’s still relevant to my current attitude and I still stand by it.
It’s just my reflections on my journey since I started making sites years ago. I’ve learned a lot about myself and creativity in general, so I’m glad my passion for the hobby is back. I hope to make more stuff, albeit with a different approach this time.
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I spent my weekend doing something completely frivolous and a huge waste of time, but I loved it anyway!
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oooh I love this post! And I like the idea of a biannual review of goals/metrics/etc.
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Even your non-minimal stylesheet is quite readable IMO!
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I’m slowly brave enough to return to my website. I’m working through a lot perfectionism right and, today’s “bigger” changes and a whole blog post round that out.
arch linux and lessons in embracing imperfection is my first step back into webweaving, a result of me slowly dipping my foot back into the sea of creativity and learning to embrace that (i only changed the background of my home page and look where it got me).
my site will forever be a work in progress. and that’s the entire point. i want to relearn that
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fwiw i absolutely love yr site’s look!! (also debian superiority!! /j)
I had a very similar experience with arch and sway a few years back. I never managed to get over that sense of having a slightly “dirty” system from incrementally applying/tweaking/reversing config changes. I switched to Ubuntu, following the same impulse as you to “start over fresh,” and it did absolutely nothing to solve the problem (PEBKAC …)
Systems like arch linux, self-hosting, etc. can be either a blessing or a tar pit for folks with perfectionistic tendencies. It’s a tar pit if you spend all your time just massaging and tweaking the system and that takes away from actually applying the system to accomplishing the objective you actually care about (see discussion above with @small_cypress and @brennan on that too). But it can also be a way to practice putting boundaries/guardrails around the tweaking impulse. I.e. confining it to a specific sandbox while letting go in other ways.
With my dumpster site, my resolution was never to get particularly fussy about the writing aspects: grammar, wording, punctuation, voice, etc… I have other places in life where I’ve all but developed a “style guide” for myself with rules on when I use italics or sentence fragments in pursuit of a consistent voice. It got exhausting and was inhibiting my creative energy. Dumpster site doesn’t have those rules, with the consequence that probably 9/10 of my posts are a disorganized mess, but it keeps the juices flowing.
Anyway here’s my post
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Have you heard of this common house animal?
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Good to know! I did try to pick the most readable blackletter font I could find.
Might be a moot point in any case, as I’m not fully satisfied with the medieval manuscript look and am now thinking it might be fun to redesign my site to look like something hot off an 18th century printing press, with a frontispiece and everything… I think I have a problem. 
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a better problem than acquiring a printing press problem (do not recommend from experience, lead and iron are heavy)
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This was supposed to be just another shitty blog post about my opinions on a silly word, but somehow turned into a 900 word essay about the impact of language censorship has on how we approach the “taboo” and why discomfort is necessary for open discussion. I realized mid-writing that the topic had a bit more nuance that needed to be expressed in a serious way, rather than as a unhinged rant post. So I tried to be more considerate on how I wrote my observations this time around.
Please be advised that this is a essay involving NSFW subjects that may be upsetting to some people. I wanna be true to the spirit of the article, but I don’t know what the limits of each reader are. So if at any point this triggers a genuine breakdown, click off now.
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This week’s tiara post features 6 Emerald Tiaras for May.
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