Update: Writing And Web Such
Jun. 2nd, 2023 12:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grayestofghostsI will not apologize to my own blog for not updating. I will not, I will not...
Anyway. Currently cupbearer twinks is off and science fiction dissociative issues story is back on. Please do not ask my logic of how I decide what projects to work on. I don't know. I have diagnosed ADHD.
I've also been looking more on neocities and retro web stuff. I have also become a bit more involved in mastodon. I am thinking I need to get into RSS somehow to keep my sanity as Twitter continues to deteriorate. It LOOKED LIKE as of December 2022 Dreamwidth was looking at becoming compatible with ActivityPub, which would mean that people would be able to subscribe to my DW on their mastodon feeds if they wanted to, which would have been VERY exciting and would probably lead to me posting here a lot more... but alas, I have no idea what DW staff are up to and they seem to implement features very slowly -- this feature was first recommended all the way back in 2018 and they were hemming and hawing about privacy features but I'm guessing Twitter blowing up kind of put a fire under them with this. I still do not know if it will ever be implemented though, or if it is, if it will happen in a timely manner. Crossing my fingers.
I am still looking into using neocities to create a more permanent home for some of my writing (primarily essays at this point) rather than just blog updates. However building a static site, though they're quite stable, is a significant time investment and it would mean having to differentiate between what I want to post where, which is difficult enough given how diffuse social media networks etc are. But still, there's something about having control. However, looking into it, I am getting seriously sidetracked by all the shiny things. Like oh, I need a good layout, do you remember tile backgrounds? I need to design a button! What about a guest book? etc. It probably doesn't help that I am getting weirdly heavy nostalgia looking at all these sites because of how much making stuff like this was my pretty early childhood (like, legit, elementary school. I had a weird childhood). The concept of smol web is so fascinating. There are so many complex retro websites designed by teenagers who weren't even alive when this stuff was the norm. I don't know. It's a lot.
I do want a lightweight web presence that I can call my own (even if it's on neocities, static pages are pretty transferable). I WILL get it working eventually. Maybe. I don't know.
For better or worse I have been getting into enneagram stuff. I am a 5, apparently, if that's not obvious from this blog. There is a lot of, uh, what I can best describe as processing going on in my life right now and this helps, maybe. Some. It's confusing. Every time I think I've figured it out it keeps pulling me back in, you know.
In the meantime I am looking for a new job and looking to move to a safer state. Even if this is constantly occupying my mind, I don't really want to talk about it, unless you can actually hook me up with remote SQL jobs. Then please contact me.
Anyway. Currently cupbearer twinks is off and science fiction dissociative issues story is back on. Please do not ask my logic of how I decide what projects to work on. I don't know. I have diagnosed ADHD.
I've also been looking more on neocities and retro web stuff. I have also become a bit more involved in mastodon. I am thinking I need to get into RSS somehow to keep my sanity as Twitter continues to deteriorate. It LOOKED LIKE as of December 2022 Dreamwidth was looking at becoming compatible with ActivityPub, which would mean that people would be able to subscribe to my DW on their mastodon feeds if they wanted to, which would have been VERY exciting and would probably lead to me posting here a lot more... but alas, I have no idea what DW staff are up to and they seem to implement features very slowly -- this feature was first recommended all the way back in 2018 and they were hemming and hawing about privacy features but I'm guessing Twitter blowing up kind of put a fire under them with this. I still do not know if it will ever be implemented though, or if it is, if it will happen in a timely manner. Crossing my fingers.
I am still looking into using neocities to create a more permanent home for some of my writing (primarily essays at this point) rather than just blog updates. However building a static site, though they're quite stable, is a significant time investment and it would mean having to differentiate between what I want to post where, which is difficult enough given how diffuse social media networks etc are. But still, there's something about having control. However, looking into it, I am getting seriously sidetracked by all the shiny things. Like oh, I need a good layout, do you remember tile backgrounds? I need to design a button! What about a guest book? etc. It probably doesn't help that I am getting weirdly heavy nostalgia looking at all these sites because of how much making stuff like this was my pretty early childhood (like, legit, elementary school. I had a weird childhood). The concept of smol web is so fascinating. There are so many complex retro websites designed by teenagers who weren't even alive when this stuff was the norm. I don't know. It's a lot.
I do want a lightweight web presence that I can call my own (even if it's on neocities, static pages are pretty transferable). I WILL get it working eventually. Maybe. I don't know.
For better or worse I have been getting into enneagram stuff. I am a 5, apparently, if that's not obvious from this blog. There is a lot of, uh, what I can best describe as processing going on in my life right now and this helps, maybe. Some. It's confusing. Every time I think I've figured it out it keeps pulling me back in, you know.
In the meantime I am looking for a new job and looking to move to a safer state. Even if this is constantly occupying my mind, I don't really want to talk about it, unless you can actually hook me up with remote SQL jobs. Then please contact me.
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Date: 2023-06-04 03:38 am (UTC)I hear you on the neocities. I've managed to get myself a basic page, and am now doing the 'but how do I apply a site style!' spin in place. I know what I want, but I don't want to have to hard code it on every page and ah, I'm at least a decade out of practice with html. I do have a superficial understanding of CSS even though it is more recent than the last time I wrote a static web page, because I write Shiny applications (interactive web pages) at work, and our UX person has been teaching me how to debug those.
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Date: 2023-06-05 04:12 am (UTC)I dunno. I remember on the page I made in elementary school I was at the point of using frames, but I wasn't very good at it so it was kind of a mess and you could get like, nested sidebars :p
I am sooooo out of practice oh my god. yes, because style is a pain in the ass to change, it feels like such a big decision!
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Date: 2023-06-06 04:21 am (UTC)I just went offline social media, but am currently as-we-speak researching/thinking about starting a blog. Something more long form and dedicated and kind of personal, smaller, I dunno. I'm looking at Neocities, looks kind of fun. And here, of course. And PF. I miss Livejournal. Any suggestions would be nice :)
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Date: 2023-06-06 02:31 pm (UTC)I’m always going to shill for Mastodon but even though it’s easy to get the “cozy” feel there and it is possible to find places that will allow longform posts it was always meant to be a microblogging protocol (but it can “federate” with compatible long-form blogs, so you can use your feed like an RSS). I also miss LJ like, a lot, and wish people would get on this site for long-form posts. But I think microblogging is just too convenient and media posting here is soooo difficult in comparison to modern platforms…
The thing about neocities is that it’s not really a blogging platform. You can *put* a blog on there, sure, but you have to format it yourself, and it’s not really built to receive comments. I think if you were going to do that you might want to look into using a static site generator, but IIRC that will only work with a paid neocities subscription. I would probably just link back here for my blog if I actually get my neocities running.
If you want something super stripped down, there’s bearblog.dev, lol.
If you want to talk more I’m always on discord.
I don’t think I have an enneagram wing. I feel like 6 stuff is my worksona, it’s stuff I can do but it’s a tool, the 4 stuff is… more personal, but probably also a tool. Idk, being compartmentalized is Like That. I don’t really do MBTI for reasons so I have no idea anymore.