Don't Miss Anything Or You Won't Make It

Cory Dransfeldt writes in a way that feels like it's aimed at me, because everything is a checklist: > Check, check, check, clear the queue, close the rings, get to zero. I know this looks neurotic; it is neurotic because I'm neurotic. I always have been,

The Never-Ending Task List

Every so often, I end up here, in a place where every task completed is met with a few more added to the end. As the list grows, so does my anxiety about trying to reach the end—an end that is never in sight, let alone becoming any closer.

Blogging Isn't Always Easy

Brandon encouraging more people to blog the way he does: > It's easy, blog about what you like. Talk about the things that you are passionate about, things you find joy in, or document your day-to-day. I really enjoyed this post, despite disagreeing slightly. You see, we both

The Missing Human Curation

Cassidy writing about the missing human curation: > When algorithms determine everything we should see, the internet becomes much less personal. The “For You” pages of the world are accurate—I am interested in that content, but I'm not seeing it from my friends, or that one author

Does Gear Matter?

Arun Venkatesan has lots of thoughts on photography gear: > The problem lies within the question itself. It's one of those inquiries that cannot be definitively answered with anything other than "it depends." It depends on who is using the gear. It depends on what they

Don't Forget The Effort

Ava writing about effort in their newsletter: > if someone’s much better than you at something, they probably try much harder. You probably underestimate how much harder they try. I’m not saying that talent isn’t a meaningful differentiator, because it certainly is, but I think people generally

Displaying Limited Number Of Posts In 11ty

Another day, another tweak I'm making to my blog. Today's task, alongside sorting out the navigation  to display better, was adding some content to my Posts page. On my old blog, this page listed all the tags I have and a few examples of the posts

More People Should Write

James Somers encouraging more people to write: > More people should do what I’m doing right now. They should sit at their computers and bat the cursor around — write full sentences about themselves and the things they care about. This is an old post, and reminiscent of many newer

Making a Blogroll

One of the great things about making your own website is that you can build new things. One of the worst things about making your own website is that you keep building new things. After web mentions and a way to publish easily, the next thing on my list was

Not Really Webmentions Part 2

In keeping with my ways, as soon as I published my rather long-winded method of pulling in pseudo webmentions, I knew I wasn’t satisfied. Functioning is one thing, but seeing all the code on a page and having trouble following it myself gave me a headache. I began working