thoughts

Really glad I'm making my way through the tens of tabs I've got open, because I've found a cool website and don't want to close it / lose it.

They're kind of a backlog for sites I want to add to my fieldnotes, so I guess I'm saying I'm feeling good about getting through my backlog!

Something I really appreciate in the personal web is just the ability to have different themes for all your different pages.

I think corporate web is very entrenched in their 'brand' and providing the 'same experience for users' and it kind of perpetuates this idea that one you have the 'one' theme for your site that's it.

But I've really enjoyed exploring the indie web and seeing people make sites and site themes that change to suit the content better, for whimsy and for fun, and all the ways that spreads joyous creativity

Setting up LumeCMS and trying to figure out what's what

So far it seems like each cms.collection defines a post type, and you can define via filepath where those posts should go.

Not sure what cms.storage is doing so far

Gonna see if I can figure out auto naming new files or something

Blegh.

The way that I have to work on things for soooo looong before I can get it to a satisfactory point :(

I want to do a whole buncha decorative things for the thoughts page, but blegh I'll just push this out and call it iteration one.

But I'd love to add more cute things to it. I just want to put it down for a bit and pick up something else before coming back to it I guess.

The thing that slows me down is the art stuff I want to do. I'd love some pixel art assets. Takes really long to do myself, so I've been looking at some asset packs on itch.io

Some cool ones I've found so far

• Hero's Journey - Taiga Forest by Ankolisa
• Oak Woods - Environment Asset by Brullov

I also need to make writing these thoughts much easier.... time for a cli tool...?

i love rotting in bed and wasting my entire weekend because of stress induced depressive episode

I would really love to be able to update my website on the phone via mobile or something.

I think a file based system would be great for that, but also, what kind of content am I wanting to update?

Mostly, I want to keep track of cool links I see and want to return to. Whether for reading later, or enshrining as a cool thing I want others to know about.

I just process concepts better on my laptop vs the phone. It feels like theres enough space to lay out my thoughts and absorb, verses trying to suck the knowledge and understanding into my brain through a keyhole

I'm really liking deno, and also really liking lume.

It really helps that I'm finding their quikstart and getting started guides really useful, and genuinely easy to navigate / find the things I need.

Found the Secret Garden by way of ribo.zone's link graveyard and I love it! I've been wanting to make a site similar to it for ages.

I definitely need to set aside time to properly go through it. I'm thinking of making 'case study' pages, because I do love writing down my thoughts so I don't forget them...

Also do people know Sean Mccoy? I don't, but he's in the board game space and has a blog I just found. A small rant about investigation in rpgs

Reading From the Superhighway

I've done a lot of work in open source software, and I'd say the ethos behind indie literary magazines and open source projects are far more similar than most would expect. Editing a literary magazine is like maintaining an open source project; submitting your writing to a literary magazine is like contributing code or documentation to an open source project.

• Joel Hans