Personal Announcements

[BlazingCobaltX]

Update to my Shelves subsite: The sections Games, Animanga, and TV/Movies now have live spreadsheets embedded. This makes it easier for me to keep track of the media I watch/read/play and keep my reviews in one place. Sadly this seemed too impractical for the Books section, so for the time being I am linking to the Storygraph instead.

[BlazingCobaltX]

Sorry for the doublepost. I just published this piece on being nostalgic about internet friendships I had. I also am tentatively opening up a guestbook. Though I usually keep away from things like this, I kinda wanna see what happens with it.

[torrent-empress]

After noodling about with HTML and CSS for about a month, I have a live website that is filled out enough for me to feel comfortable sharing it! lovethea.net

It feels like the more I work on it the more things I think of to add, so I already have a todo section in my about page for the site. I'm still over the moon about how it's looking since I never thought I would be able to make a website that I was happy with the appearance of, but here I am! ^_^

Your calligraphy is so cool!!! I tried learning a little bit back but I wasn't so good at it, it was back when I went through my bullet journaling phase.

[postponed0x00]

I made an update to my home page https://postponed0x00.gay

now it has a custom made guestbook!

I made it on node.js (so modern, eww, i know) it's a simple program that receives the entry from a POST response from the form entry and on a GET request returns the last 100 entries. I might replace it with a more memory friendly application, but this will do for now.

It's not super complicated, but I'm very proud of it. It's also hidden in a small CSS state machine that manages the hidden window that I'm also very proud of!

[arcus]

I got accepted into a new pubnix and overhauled my site. Any thoughts on its legibility?

[Dan Q]

I added a Postcards from the Internet! page to collect the scans of the (physical, snail mail!) postcards that people on the Internet send me, after I set up a PO Box a few weeks ago and started soliciting for people to send me things.

The first two cards I received, ignoring a test card I sent myself and a postcard I received years ago, were from our very own @bodypoetic and @rhyswynne (thank you both so much!). As well as appearing on my blog, my PO Box address is on my Melonland Forum profile if you want to send me one too!

[Blue]

Updated the webmaster page to give it a new look, new stuff on it and be a small preview of a future site update since the look will be similar.

[mudfairy]

i suppose i made a little web clique for FRODO LIVES pins, reminiscent of the 1960s anti-war protests in america, though i also included tolkein's views. kind of long read for a clique (honestly, i'm just nerdin tf out, plz excuse), but tldr: tolkein was an anarchist and had an UTTER distaste for tyrants.

https://mudflower.earth/library/frodo.html



i also provided a template there to make more pins if anyone wants to doodle (doesn't necessarily need to be lotr-themed but i think it would be really cool, but you can also use it to just make pins for yourself). i didn't initially mean to make a web clique, but i think it'll be really cool to display everyone's pins

[Dan Q]

i suppose i made a little web clique for FRODO LIVES pins, reminiscent of the 1960s anti-war protests in america, though i also included tolkein's views. kind of long read for a clique (honestly, i'm just nerdin tf out, plz excuse), but tldr: tolkein was an anarchist and had an UTTER distaste for tyrants.

The pins are really cool; I love this page. I agree with you that Gandalf wouldn't have wanted to be President, though: between his powers both mystical and political, he'd be much too-dangerous for the world of men, and while I'm sure he'd be a gracious leader I'm also confident that he'd fear the possibility of his succumbing to corruption.

(Still, I'd 100% take Gandalf over that president you've got over there nowadays.)

I stopped by Tolkein's grave the other week: he's buried not far from me (in fact, back when I used to work here [where, among other things, I helped create an exhibition specifically about Tolkien and his works] I used to cycle past the graveyard where he's buried a dozen times a week). It's quite remarkable how many people treat doing so as a pilgrimage: every time I've seen it his headstone is covered with gifts: flowers, rings, and copious written notes and poetry - some of it in Elvish: it's a pretty unusual place to visit, for sure!

[mudfairy]

The pins are really cool; I love this page. I agree with you that Gandalf wouldn't have wanted to be President, though: between his powers both mystical and political, he'd be much too-dangerous for the world of men, and while I'm sure he'd be a gracious leader I'm also confident that he'd fear the possibility of his succumbing to corruption.

(Still, I'd 100% take Gandalf over that president you've got over there nowadays.)

oh gosh, that is such a cool experience! i would have loved to see an exhibit of his writings and life! and yeah, while i disagree with the gandalf for president, i think the pins were so cute. i think it captures the same feeling in frodo wanting him to take the ring, or everyone sort of depending on him to guide them for the most part. i sort of felt like he was something like the leader of the fellowship, though he didn't exert authority. he just provided wisdom (and grace and mercy). but maybe that's what a good president should strive for... but it takes a maniac to want to run a huge country.

thank you for sharing bits of your life! very cool place to be.

[Dan Q]

Started working last night on the "sticker sheets" idea I've had for the next version of my site's design. The idea is that you'll randomly find sticker sheets on my site and you can deface pages by sticking stickers all over them.

Haven't implemented the storage component (so it remembers what you stuck where) yet, but the UI for the stickers is mostly done at least. I was pleased with my implementation of code to give the sticker sheet "inertia" so that you can "throw" it across the page and it slows down as if by friction (possibly rotating a little as it does so).