i am embracing the digital garden. i’ve overthought the ui, the sitemap, features, and much more, when i should’ve just frankensteined together the bricks of neocities i enjoyed with as simple html and css i could understand.
credits for the portions i’ve frankensteined are as follows:
for the sake of future customization, i will keep a backlog of my posts on my personal notes app, obsidian. maybe one day i’ll write a full entry on how much i love this app as a student. it also works surprisingly well for being an online student at that. i still like the idea of shortform blogging, but i’ve yet to find a html layout that works well for me (and my current level of html/css skills). i do plan on expanding my knowledge via codecademy, with a side of learning javascript and R. though, i did notice my uni’s fall course offerings have opened and they offer R for programming as a stats class!
but fr, i just needed to get this site started. start simple, get *started*, and just write. just like i did with obsidian, the customizations involved to make the space truly mine will come along in time. i just need to get on writing. i’ve learned through my studies just how much i actually like writing about things that interest me, the writing process, and editing. hm. added to blog post ideas. the peace and serenity of copyediting.
like many, i am hoping to take steps back from social media to a utopia of the self. i love what people come up with in terms of a digital garden, seeing all the different things people do on neocities is so damn inspiring. such a wide scope of what can be accomplished with enough time and dedication to learning the language of webspace! my goals really are to get back to what made me fall in love with tumblr – taking partial ownership of my internet presence, think more about what it is i say and why i speak, and since taking school back up i have wanted to do my own readings and synthesize independently from what is assigned. i feel that i do a well-enough job so far of stepping away and really holding this phone addiction at bay, but the tiktokification of instagram reels is upon me, and i miss treating that app like a space to keep up with all the friends i’ve made throughout my life. i’m hoping longform writing and editing will satiate that need to sit and do nothing for a while. i also hope this itch to sit and write will motivate me to finish books too. reviewing them yakno. that’s where my bookshelf comes in.
maybe i’ll add ways to add my stuff to rss feeds so my friends can get my updates straight to their emails, the way god intended pen pals to be. i admire so many people i’ve met through the internet all across my life. i can’t in good conscience delete every bit of social media.
i swear though, i’m making my own damn microblog for shortform updates. i’ll miss yapping about innocuous shit way too much, but it’d also be nice to have a dedicated space to just update on my special interests (my major, career, shows i’m watching, stuff i’m learning, etcetc).