March 2025

3.27.2025

I was busy all day with homework and then my job and when I got home I was ded. x,x I was gonna ramble on here a bunch, but I got distracted making a bunch of predictions on Fatebook (with a T), and I honestly feel a lot better now. I also spent more time than was necessary reading the list of tags at the bottom of Neocities' browse page. I know what a disturbingly large amount of the words mean. Most of the ones I didn't are either educational programs that use Neocities to teach (ghchs, miriadax, tic) or fandoms I'm aware of, but didn't associate the acronym with: osc (object show community), tcc (true crime community), pjsk (Project Sekai), csgo (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive), mcyt (Minecraft YouTube). "crd" is apparently short for "carrd". I thought surely that "gis" wasn't what I read it as, but there actually are ~75 sites on here about geographic information systems, nice!

It makes me a little sad that "atheism" didn't make it when both spiritual and rational-ish things have a lot of popular tags, but I know a lot of conversations even among atheists never really progress past talking about why religion is harmful and/or factually incorrect, so what would people be making websites about? Be the change I want to see, I guess! There's another thing I can write about :D (once I've caught up with the things I'm already writing, that is.)

3.26.2025

I found out about Fraidycat several years ago, but never really had a reason to use it. I finally started using it, initially to follow some Instagram profiles since I don't have an account, and it works quite well for that. I did find out, though, that it doesn't detect changes on just any website. It only works with Tiddlywikis because they're specifically supported.

Anyway, some of the kids at work today were playing The Password Game, which I heard about when it came out a couple years ago but I dismissed it as some dumb trend. I've played it a few times though and it's really fun, I've gotten as far as Rule 24 before stopping for the night. I might write up some things I've noticed and strategies I've been using.

3.25.2025

Just updated my site to make the CSS prettier! I actually remembered how to do most of what I wanted to, or figured it out pretty quickly through trial and error. I used Firefox's Page Inspector to try out modifications before saving them in my code, which conveniently suggests completions of CSS rules. There were a few things I had to look up on the MDN Web Docs though: how to add a background image, get the device's orientation to tweak the background size to look best, and add a favicon (which I generated with LifeHash.) Also, I changed the "favs" page to "links", and added an archive for last month's updates.

I started writing an update on my use of Beeminder here, but I moved it to another file because I think I'd like to make a separate "writing" page for long-form writing on a cohesive topic, and keep this section as site updates and random thoughts. Of course, some of my random thoughts are going to turn out to be the basis for more polished writing, and I think that's great! I'm pretty excited to see where tending to this website takes me. :D

3.22.2025

On my links page I mentioned some internet radio stations I've been listening to for a while, but it never occured to me until recently that I could listen to them in the car. Since quitting Spotify I'd mainly been listening to local radio stations, and there are a few good ones but they all have the same five ads and it gets irritating. Except the Spanish romance station, which also has the best taste in music. But anyway, I realized that I could listen to Soma FM and Jet Set Radio Live in my car the same way I could listen to Spotify and it's been great.

Unrelatedly, I found this softness measurement company whose logo is just "certified softness" in all-lowercase, italicized Comic Sans with a registered trademark symbol. It's glorious.