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/ tell chicago i said hi

FOMO all around for me. Even this new layout was born from missing some of the stupider stuff I did as a kid, like hover effects that fundamentally messed up the design, using extra characters for decoration, and bordering absolutely everything. There's something about borders that really does scream Y2K layout even though I didn't do that often myself. I vaguely remember using bordered tables INSIDE divs and it's crazy how I couldn't do that now if I tried. I barely remember how I made it look right as a kid. Experiment for another day.

This layout is way more nostalgia-based. Low contrast, tiny divs, overly bordered, overly boxed. Header and footer on each post. I actually didn't make things like this often way back when but the whole messy emo collage thing is the last thing I want to see in 2026. The image is a collage of Odd Man Out photos taken by SLC homie Austin.

Also FOMO-ing Chicago rn. Combo Breaker is live and I can't help but think about how happy I was my second year meeting all my friends:

Miss all of you. None of us made it to actual CB this year but maybe we'll love the game again real soon.

<3


/ real fgc hours

Brother I could not be happier with the progress I've made on my newest contract. I've been working on this thing nonstop so maybe tonight I can finally.... put my laundry away. Really looking forward to this weekend. Worried I may have bitten off more than I could chew with all the activities I have planned for myself. Not a real problem to have. It involves Mac n Cheese and like 12 hours of Street Fighter. Not a real problem to have.

The weather is supposed to be wonderful the entire time. Can't wait.


/ beep beep

A lot of traffic at my desk today. The 9-5 is motivated and has tons of new projects coming my way. Cool. Phone was also ringing off the hook. Ended up launching an entire site today out of nowhere. So this guy is officially finished:

They already have more coming my way. I'm pretty stoked to be filling out this invoice right now. But that has the wheels turning. I should build something really quickly to update and track my invoices. I know that's probably low-hanging-fruit software but everyone makes you pay for shit like this. I'd love to make it myself instead. I didn't think at any point I'd be juggling this many contract gigs and maybe this is just a weird time. A full-blown app may be jumping the gun a little and the last thing I need is more things to do.

Find myself having to quiet down some mean thoughts today. But it's easier to get through them because I'm busy and having fun with the to-do list these days. Still. At least I'm safe now.

Updates:

  • I boxed this entire layout in. It's nicer somehow. Can't describe it really.
  • Boxing the layout in makes the gallery images look a lot better.
  • Had to shuffle the sidebars around a bit to look nicer with this design
  • I like that scrollbar off to the side a lot

/ mundanemundee

I cannot believe how busy I am because of this blog. I keep saying that. But I wrote down everything I need or want to write on substack and I'm going to be here for a while. No complaints [[except that I'm a little overwhelmed]]. It's a good overwhelm. It's much better than having no direction or motivation for anything, which has been the last year or so. Couldn't be further from that.

Added some stuff. Updated my fanlistings and added a watchlist. The watchlist comes with a new CSS class with full-width list items with hover states. No reason. Just because. Some lists are like that, some aren't. Just because.

On the backend, I added a filter that allows me to view posts by tag because everything on here is kind of run on the tag system and I have a lot more posts than I thought I would. Whoops.

I also started playing around with the color scheme and theme for the blog and came up with a couple things. The old internet had such low contrast color schemes and I miss that a lot:

I'm most likely going to go after the terminal blue one if I don't end up changing the whole thing entirely. I've barely had this up for a month but already thinking about changing it. That's so like me.

I got some followers on neocities! (hi)(thanks)!

TO-DO:

  • Start Ford concepts
  • Finalize marketing outline @ work
  • Beg someone to approve the new research page @ work
  • Finish the zine + lecture outline
  • Find all the missing parts of my cyberdeck lol
  • Substack: How AI sucked at the knowledgebase CMS
  • Substack: How AI sucked at writing this blog
  • Introduce my copywriter to my fundraising coordinator
  • New bookstore
  • New turkish restaurant by me
  • Start grant writing lmaoooo


/ couch day 12

TO-DID:

  • I widgetized my sidebar. That means nothing to you, but I can edit his site a whole lot faster now.
  • Also means nothing to you: I'm leveraging the CSS to slug trick to instantly convert some pages to gallery view, which is really sick tbh
  • A lot more sections added: OOTD, stuff i made, and an entire list of links in my profile
  • Started a You section and hope I can come up with things to give you
  • Theres a Random box in the navbar with whatever in it. It changes on every page and refresh. It can be a random fact about me, an album recommendation, or a link to a site i like. Or whatever.
  • Posted a full write up and tutorial for the RSS Dashboard on my Substack (what an exhausting thing to do, I think I hated it)

TO-DO:

  • Start Ford concepts
  • Add Feed Reader download and tutorial to Substack
  • Finalize marketing outline @ work
  • Beg someone to approve the new research page @ work
  • Finish the zine + lecture outline
  • Find all the missing parts of my cyberdeck lol
  • Dig through the hard drive for the codebase I wrote for Spirit to cry about
  • Figure out how to document the last two years worth of 9-5 work
  • Attend coworker's webinar May 13 @ 4PM
  • Red mary janes come in the mail on wednesday :>
  • New gardener starts on May 14
  • Substack: How AI sucked at the knowledgebase CMS
  • Substack: How AI sucked at writing this blog
  • Introduce my copywriter to my fundraising coordinator
  • New bookstore
  • New turkish restaurant by me
  • Start grant writing lmaoooo