hi di, jus stopped by your site and it's delightful delicious delovely!!! carrd is so funny because a lot of the embed tutorials are made by 15 yr olds who are making their site from their smartphone!! the videos are literally screen recordings of them flipping through so many open tabs and cpying code with their finger - it's quite a feat.
It's delectable it's delirious... Thanks so much!
Bahaha! I really admire that! Like you, I also used to use tumblr until 2016 or so, so I'm happy a similar "custom home on the web" thing is coming back into fashion.
Your little site is so pretty. I don't know much about carrd but I see a lot of people have them now - from what i've seen they look nice, customizable, and simple. More unique expression on the web is always a good thing
it makes me unnecessarily irritated when i see ppl saying 'you'll never get hired if ur resume isn't EXACTLY this format and you don't have a work twitter with this type of header image etc etc) its just so crazy boring it drives me bonkers!!!
i have a hard time differentiating blogging and keeping a diary. usually these things meld together but there are some things in your diary-mind that you obviously dont want shared publicly!!
I'm the exact same way. The blogs I like usually have a diary-feel to them... but when I post something like that, I worry about who will stumble upon it ... so, I handwrite my crazy personal life in a physical journal, and when I write stuff on my site it's pretty strictly about my site/the internet (for now).
Honestly, the "personal state of the union" idea sounds fun.
Anyone else relate? How do you distinguish your blog from your diary? It sounds easy in theory but I ramble so much (my head is always full of thoughts and stories)
Cliché I guess, but Sims 2! As you shift through different families in the neighborhood, it's just a soap opera that keeps on going and going and going
when our modern animals go extinct and all of our records on researching these animals gets deleted how will the future generations imagine them based on the fossils that where left behind which can look extremely different from the present understanding that the future forgot about. From my understanding on our attempts at imagining Dinosaurs, it can get very inaccurate.
Such an interesting thought! It reminds me of medieval drawings of elephants or lions. Some of them can look quite strange, but I imagine it would be very difficult to find a reference for such exotic animals.. (But realism is overrated anyway, right?)
I think I'm going to be wondering about this question too, now
I wish that's what I thought about at night. because honestly, those are all fascinating questions! Mostly, I spend the night trying to comb through all the messy emotions I've felt throughout the day
i feel like it's possible and even pleasant to use it if you know how to curate things well (blocklists, chronological timeline only, tracking blockers, ublocking the trending tab and only interacting with friends)
as in yin-yang, there are always good things in the bad things.
So true! There's a lot of great art I found through social media that I wouldn't have found otherwise.
I used to feel exactly as you do, but in my opinion, "curating your feed" is also part of the problem. When we continue using the platform, we become pawns in the polarization + atrocities that these corporations cause. (Ranging from Twitter profiting off of pundits arguing about M&M mascots despite actual problems in the world, to Facebook turning a blind eye to the Rohingya crisis)
We can certainly make social media a "pretty" place by sweeping all that hate and vitriol under the rug.. but it's still festering there underneath, and as long as people keep using the platforms, people keep coming to them.
So as "pretty" as I can make sites like FB, Instagram, & Twitter (for myself), I think I'd rather just not use them altogether. Especially now that I know the small web exists!
HIRAETH, your post from the other day was FIRE! I didn't use Twitter much - I was on the Instagram side of things - but I definitely still feel what you said.
Darmodej, I'm hoping some of the snow here will blow your way. I really don't want it to snow today or tomorrow as there's a dance I want to go to tomorrow night!
that video is indeed very wintery, and there's something very nostalgic about it.. i like the way it's shot. thank you for that
It was one of the sites that sent me on the path from "Huh, site-building looks like a neat hobby" to "I need to make my own site (and, by extension, sticker book)!"
I've noticed that now I feel like I have so much time to work on my game project, and can do much more in a day! I had made a list at the start of the month on what I wanted to achieve in that month. I got through them all in 10 days. Now I'm just fixing any bugs or oddities here and there, and finishing things off.
I feel the same way! Not to seem like I'm giving a testimonial (okay maybe I am a bit), but now that I'm not constantly opening up a Pandora's box of junk content and poorly-worded opinions, I actually have time for hobbies, and thinking up new ideas, and reading stuff that actually requires effort to write..
Everyone crowds on sites like Instagram, Twitter, Discord, because that's where their friends are. ... It's basically hardwired into everyone's brains at this point that social media is The Place To Be to interact. No one ever thinks about sending a text message or even an e-mail anymore, even though everyone has the ability to.
I feel this. The single thing I regret about leaving Instagram is kind of losing touch with a friend of mine. Then again all we were really doing was forwarding random content back and forth. The app makes it very easy to do that, so it doesn't mean that much... still, it's nice to know someone's thinking of you in some way, even if just for a blip.
And you're so right. No one thinks to text, just DMs on social media instead. I guess not using social media makes it harder to have an "excuse" to chat somebody up. And texting feels more "intimate" now for some reason...
Mostly, I'm just getting used to not having constant notifications anymore. It's kind of nice, but my brain is still hard-wired to think that's wrong somehow.
Anyway, not to hijack the thread , but since it's on-topic I thought I'd share the zine I recently made about social media. It's on my site if anyone wants to check it out.
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... so, I handwrite my crazy personal life in a physical journal, and when I write stuff on my site it's pretty strictly about my site/the internet (for now).
I didn't use Twitter much - I was on the Instagram side of things - but I definitely still feel what you said.
, but since it's on-topic I thought I'd share the zine I recently made about social media. It's on 
