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    / tough buckets

    After I first published this blog, I thought the design was so plain and low maintenance that it wouldn't be anything like the old days of grooming and preening a blog all day, but I was wrong. I just spent a disgusting amount of time updating absolute fuck all on here and had the time of my life, really.

    • Everything's smaller. Just because. I feel like old internet was just smaller. There's something so throwback about fonts and containers being too small and too tight that wasn't present before. I made everything smaller and it actually looks better in a worse way idk.
    • Added a Button marquee -- this was an early internet non-negotiable, although the buttons themselves are actually a new idea. We weren't really thirsting to talk about Notepad coding and Winamp because those things were a given for the time. My fanlistings were updated similarly.
    • Blog tags were added to the sidebar. I have a lot more content than I put in the nav but needed a different treatment to give the sidebar some body and the tags really did it. Tags used to be clouds, remember those? I haven't seen a retroblog do that one yet.

    I also fiddled around some more with the RSS reader and was able to password protect it and write the feeds to a JSON file rather than local storage, which would mean your feeds go away if you ever cleared the cache. Another Claude burp if you ask me. It took some real time to iron out the accounting bit of it-- the first approach was Python-based and a little too much for a hosted server like this. Had to really wrestle with the code to set it up like something I'm more into. I tested a new instance of the feed just to make sure the files are downloadable and easy to work with.

    I plan to write a tutorial for it on substack, which really makes this blog resemble my old one. Already wondering what to cook up next.

    Oh I forgot. It works on mobile now too so now I can do healthier things on my phone. It's kinda sad that RSS isn't as popular as it used to be; maybe the demand for it will go up if we're loud about it. The CNN feed is actually three years outdated, isn't that sickening? And these feeds don't update for a few hours or maybe once a day, so it's not as high fructose an experience as looking at a feed or TL. But. wasn't that kind of that point?

    I also made some buttons for the site itself, something I haven't done in over 20 years. Almost felt weird. They're bad too. We'll get better, we always do.

      


    TO-DO:

    • 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



    / READS & FEEDS & REEDS

    Accidentally lost a bunch of my day to making an RSS reader with Claude. Not mad at it. I didn't realize how many ads were on all my favorite sites until I reduced everything to their feeds. Every four posts on my tumblr feed is an ad when I think about it. Almost a third of the CNN homepage is bullshit articles about Amazon deals and nap dresses and whatever white people are overpaying for these days.

    I guess now's a better time than ever. Tumblr, Twitter, and Instagram didn't used to assault you with posts from people you don't follow and I could stomach being on those platforms then. I could add this to my lecture or make a lecture just about this tool, which is nice. Other feed reading tools I found for desktop wanted you to pay after a few feeds which is bullshit because everything is everything. Does make me wonder if browser extensions or app store solutions may actually be nice.

    This actually took a ton of iterating on Claude. I attempted to password protect it and Claude took the laziest and shittiest route possible until I demanded specifics. That's... concerning. There was also a ton of errors that had to be addressed after tests-- I'd hate to pay per prompt, it almost feels intentional that things don't turn out right on the first few passes.

    Features:

    • Add any RSS feed
    • Customize background and text colors for each source
    • Categorize feeds and filter on the dashboard by category or source
    • Toggle between grid and list views for preferred reading experience
    • Post counts displayed on the sidebar
    • Animated loading and refreshing

    Challenges:

    • Twitter doesn't use RSS anymore, a combination of Nitter.net and RSS-bridge can compensate
    • RSS Bridge is also very inconsistent with Instagram. I got some posts to go through, but there is no consistency here. Videos and gallery posts are not supported at this time.
    • I'd love for the youtube posts to play the video, but the feeds aren't made to pull in embed codes
    • The counts are in general and not since your last refresh
    • I'd like a future iteration that uses logos and user images from the sources but that's more work than it needs to be. Maybe the prompt would be overly annoying, but it would need to pull in some sort of font or icon based on the source URL, which isn't always accurate because I use RSS Bridge for many of them. Maybe it's a selector instead but again. Another step I wouldn't want to do.
    • It would be cool if the bridge was built right into this app and you could pull whole feeds by username instead of using a third party bridge.

    Anyways I love this thing. It's nice to read the news without navigating all the inconsistently sized images and ads. I'm also finally looking at tweets without being asked to log in constantly. It's kinda sad that the internet is in a place like this, but I'm glad there's still something you can do about it.


    TO-DO:

    • 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



    / if a code is updated in the woods

    A coworker deleted three weeks worth of my code with no backup to supplement. So that was my day.

    I also finally found the screenshots I've been missing for Spirit for my portfolio. Not a whole lot of luck with Egyptian Theater, though I found exactly one more screenshot of it to round out that entry. Better than nothing. It's not like me to lose an entire psd like that but at least I had exactly one screenshot of it with real data attached.

    Another client reached back out to me. This one I do actually like. Going to find out what he needs on Friday. I'm glad I'm still on good terms with the guy and despite him having a whole development shop, still thinks I'm the right person to reach out to when his devs can't figure out a certain flow.

    Here's the work I did for Spirit though. It was one of the better projects back at the agency because for once there was at least some professional photos involved. Vue.js was really annoying to work with and I don't even know why we went with it. Probably because it switched over states and timezones readily. Hardly worth it. Hardly consistent. Though I'm glad to not be writing anything in vue, I do miss this project and the people that I met while working on it.

    Rest in Peace in the Big Sky in the Big Sky.

    graphical user interface, website

    In the slightest of updates to this site, I separated post containers apart. I don't know. makes me feel better. I also added pill styling around tags, which makes this blog probably more modern than it should be but I could very much see my 14 year old self wanting the same thing.

    The gals' webinar is tomorrow. It'll be nice to watch someone else do it for once. They're presenting all the updates I helped design and publish to the instructor software. They're nice and nervous, just like I was. Can't wait to see what they've cooked up. Can't wait to sit and listen on the clock.


    TO-DO:

    • 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



    / Something to write home about

    In a shocking turn of events, I've written ten pages worth of a zine and lecture I'd been stuck on for over a year. I was asked a while back to hold a lecture about art and technology and have been back and forth about it for months since. But through the creation of this blog, I've finally structured my thesis and dedicated some much-needed time for research. I'm stacking up articles to put up on my substack. I have some content in the queue for this blog. I pulled out some hard drives to sift through. I'm going to turn the cyberdeck on and see if I can run winamp or something on it for my hi-fi setup. It's been a strangely and refreshingly productive time. Again, I really needed it.

    I forgot that having a website is a full-on hobby. Or it can be. And I'm hoping this will get me out of my zine-writing rut since I have a couple more ideas on my desk there too. I'm fully leaning into code as a hobby and making time for it again. More things I needed.

    I used to spend almost all my time making premades and designs for others. I guess I do the same thing now for money, but it's really not the same. Especially with how boring the work can be. One of my least favorite clients called me last week and gave me a nice heap of anxiety. I still haven't called him back. He's a good guy and all, but his meetings were always a 2-hour minimum, he could barely afford me, and it took almost a full year to finalize one of the worst logos I've ever seen or made in my entire life. It was such a nightmare and I wish I had anyone to refer him to. Yikes. Maybe I take the easy way out and give him a number he simply cannot work with and call it a day.

    TO-DO:

    • 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

    / A Return of Color

    I missed this. Being a girl rearranging her digital bedroom for hours a night. It's actually hard to remember how I passed the hours before notifications, DMs, and timelines. It was just reading a lot of other people's blogs, working on my next layout, making layouts for others. I doubt it'll be like that again, but it's cool to hunt for fanlistings and slow the fuck down. It's cool to have a guestbook. It's cool to have a hit counter. I should find a webring or two.

    I'm also a big supporter of Web as Art and Making Art for No Reason in 2026. Neocities really showed me how happy and content people are just taking care of their own sites and documenting their lives on their own terms.

    I look forward to experimenting with things my 2003 mind couldn't conceive, mostly the stark contrast in the lo-fi appearance of this site and the way every day life looks these days. My teenage self would struggle to comprehend that I'd be posting le creuset mugs on my grown up Woman Blog.

    It's nice.

    Let's celebrate by looking at screenshots of my first ever HTML template and my first ever layout for my first personal domain.


    / webrings


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