2025-12-27 08:00:00
I start so many things and then talk about them and then don’t finish them. I thought it might be fun to compile them all here so that they’re not lost to the sands of time.
In February (February! geez) I had the idea to write a recap framed by the fashion of xyz, which I excitedly posted about and then never touched again. I still like the idea and hope to return to it some day!
In August, I thought about doing a low-effort (writing-wise) weeknotes layout structured like a calendar. Retro.app is structured like this and I think it’s really effective for showing a weekly overview.
I did something similar in October 2024 for Weird Web October’s day #4 prompt “Lists.” (Wow, it took me a moment to find this page because it’s utterly unfindable, lol. Also my WWO archive somehow still uses my old site version 6 layout. Perhaps I’ll leave it like that as a little snapshot, haha.)
Back in February I started Yuhki Demers’ visdev cityscapes class and made barely any progress. Embarrassing! I want to finish it this year (preferably, in the next couple of months).
This is from 2024, but I actually wrote what would have been “Weeknotes 20” as a tiny zine, photographed it, put it into a blog post, and decided it wasn’t good enough to post.
Well, I’m dropping it here now. A fun detail I can pick out is that this must have been shortly after I acquired my f/1.4 camera lens, haha.
(here is what weeknotes 20 actually turned out to be)
I got back into Stardew Valley in the summer/fall, and was motivated enough to start writing a farm tour post. Then I went on vacation, and then Hades II came out, and I forgot about it. Perhaps I can still pull something together though, even if it’s more screenshots than writing as I initially planned.
Some screenshots, originally posted to Mastodon in September:
This is published, but pretty much a work-in-progress still. I hope to fill it out more this year.
Since my 2024 post about my Eleventy setup, I’ve redesigned my site and restructured my templates. I’ve started working on an updated post, but this languished and was forgotten. I want to finish it sometime in the next couple of months!
I briefly tried creating a font out of my own handwriting, which was fun! I want to spend more time on that next year, which will take some work since I think I’ll need to learn how to use more complex software to do the ligatures and things that I want.
I try not to complain too much on social media because I know that it’s mostly just unproductive. There are more worthwhile things to spend my energy doing. But of course, sometimes the compulsion to write something mean is too strong to resist—especially when I’ve repeatedly encountered something frustrating. Perhaps I’ll compile these every year and it will form some kind of interesting anthropological look for future readers (me) at the modern issues that plague us (me).
Anyway, here are my drafts, which is complaining and a bit of shitposting.
I wrote these in a big text file.
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2025-12-13 08:00:00
and other things I’m thinking about
It’s nice to return to this format after a while. I don’t feel the need to adhere to my previous structure. I sat down and wrote this in less than an hour, which is very freeing.
2025-11-02 08:00:00
2025-09-30 08:00:00
2025-07-20 08:00:00
I redesigned my website!!!
In some ways it’s not that different—the overall layout is the same, with centered content and all. The fonts and colours are new. I’m excited to look at something new though, because I was getting quite tired of the old design.
Watched some good movies lately!
I’m playing Destiny again because the new expansion just came out. As of writing, I’m not done the campaign yet! While I’m enjoying myself (except for the orbin’ time mechanics), my enthusiasm is much more muted than it was compared to the previous expansions.
I also didn’t participate in this weekend’s contest mode raid, which I feel glad about because it’s looking like it was an absolutely miserable (and…buggy? who’s to say) experience for everyone involved, including the top streamers, even by normal contest mode standards.
If I had a nickel for every time I found a colour reference site that did its job perfectly, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.
Some comic/zine purchases recently:
I also bought Watchmen and Hawkeye (2012), two comics I’ve been wanting to buy for years.
