Notices by Spencer (spencer@motley.club), page 3
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Spencer (spencer@motley.club)'s status on Saturday, 07-Jan-2023 04:41:50 JST Spencer I have a couple questions for those who keep a #DigitalGarden!
First: Are there things you would post on your site that you'd consider not part of your garden?
I'm getting caught up on taxonomy as I try to build my own. If I share, for instance, digital art I've made, do I want to consider that part of my garden? What about if I share rules for tabletop games? Journal posts? I'm trying to determine what my definition of my garden is—what I want to include and exclude. Those are decisions for myself, of course, but I'm curious how others have approached it.
Second: I'm drawn to digital gardening for how it might decrease the barrier for writing for me, by encouraging more "thinking in public". If you keep a digital garden, have you ever found the opposite—that you want to publish something, but can't find a home for it in your existing structure? What helps keep a digital garden free and empowering, rather than restrictive?
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Spencer (spencer@motley.club)'s status on Friday, 06-Jan-2023 10:41:21 JST Spencer @Mjo321 trunkmonkey
assbasket
fartmartyr
I don't even know what any of these would mean, but they definitely feel right. -
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Spencer (spencer@motley.club)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Jan-2023 10:20:54 JST Spencer I'm very pleased with how this little site logo for my website-in-progress is turning out. It unfurls when you mouse over it! -
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Spencer (spencer@motley.club)'s status on Friday, 30-Dec-2022 16:25:32 JST Spencer @cobie (I genuinely agree with your point here and think it's a very important lesson, and also, there's another post about two spots below this in my feed about Dracula, and the topics collided in my head and I'm so sorry.) -
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Spencer (spencer@motley.club)'s status on Friday, 30-Dec-2022 16:24:39 JST Spencer @cobie you know who didn't let others' opinions of them get them down? fucking Dracula. that guy lived in a freaking castle, wore those high-necked capes, stole people's blood, and turned into a bat. dramatic af, but he lived his best life—err, undeath. a legend. -
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Spencer (spencer@motley.club)'s status on Friday, 30-Dec-2022 11:53:10 JST Spencer @thedorismith The liberals don't want us to say it, but they can't take away my freedom! I'm gonna say Merry Shitscram whether they like it or not! -
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Spencer (spencer@motley.club)'s status on Friday, 30-Dec-2022 11:52:17 JST Spencer For once, a pizza chain really was useful for finding the location of a human trafficker. -
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Spencer (spencer@motley.club)'s status on Friday, 30-Dec-2022 10:35:47 JST Spencer someone signed up for a department store customer's club using my email address, and I swear to god why can't places send confirmation emails before creating subscriptions -
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Spencer (spencer@motley.club)'s status on Friday, 30-Dec-2022 04:38:20 JST Spencer Right? Like, look at this absolute icon: -
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Spencer (spencer@motley.club)'s status on Friday, 30-Dec-2022 04:37:35 JST Spencer I should really figure out how to make YunoHost update Friendica without overwriting the files and directories I've manually changed. I keep losing my favicon and custom Frio themes. ? -
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Spencer (spencer@motley.club)'s status on Friday, 30-Dec-2022 03:32:50 JST Spencer Proving that the best way to find something yourself is to ask for others to help you, I just found it: Creating Cool Web Pages, by Lynda Tourloukis. -
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Spencer (spencer@motley.club)'s status on Friday, 30-Dec-2022 03:31:54 JST Spencer Hey #webDesign, wanna help me find a book?
When I was a kid, I first learned HTML (back in the <marquee> days, pre-CSS) from a little book that I swear was called something like Creating Cool Websites for Kids. I think I remember it was written by a woman, and had a cover with some cartoon dude on it. This would have been in the late 90s or early 2000s. It was printed in color.
I cannot, for the life of me, find this book, and I would love to know what it was, just for nostalgic purposes.
Does this ring a bell for anyone?
Boosts much appreciated. Thanks!
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Spencer (spencer@motley.club)'s status on Friday, 30-Dec-2022 00:35:55 JST Spencer Using SyncThing to sync my website-in-progress directory between my home desktop and work laptop was definitely a good choice. When I have time between clients, it's really nice to pick up exactly where I left off. -
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Spencer (spencer@motley.club)'s status on Thursday, 29-Dec-2022 12:25:53 JST Spencer I got something that resembled my ideal in about 5 minutes after adding a media query. ?
Maybe one day I'll be clever enough to do it without! But for now, functional. -
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Spencer (spencer@motley.club)'s status on Thursday, 29-Dec-2022 06:51:00 JST Spencer @harris There's something in the minimalism I appreciate: a couple lines of CSS that flexibly adapt to the space given (given certain rules) instead of being told where to break. That just seems elegant to me, for whatever reason.
It's probably a reflection of my hobbyist status that I like to tinker with elegance instead of just using what I know would work. ? -
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Spencer (spencer@motley.club)'s status on Thursday, 29-Dec-2022 04:26:48 JST Spencer I really love the idea of a layout that doesn't need media queries, but until I'm a much more skilled code golfer, the choice for me isn't between "website with media queries" and "website without", it's between "having a website anytime soon" and "not". -
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Spencer (spencer@motley.club)'s status on Thursday, 29-Dec-2022 04:26:48 JST Spencer New task on my list, after days of trying to make a CSS Grid-based layout that didn't use any media queries at all to be responsive:
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Spencer (spencer@motley.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Dec-2022 04:02:35 JST Spencer As a kid, I loved snow days. The world was transformed, and daily life was suspended. Why wouldn't it be? The world itself was reminding us to relax, to enjoy and marvel, to put daily business on pause.
I still feel that when there's snow on the ground. My body wants to wonder at the transformed landscape, to slow down, to take a breather. But the society we've built has less and less room for that. If you don't work, you won't have those warm walls around you. You'll be out in the cold. Ignore your impulses, scrape your windshield, leave ten minutes earlier. The winter weather is made a burden by our refusal to allow productivity to pause.
I know, there will always be work that needs done in the winter. Surely, not this much. I can't help but mourn for the magic of winter that gets crushed beneath the American Protestant ethic. -
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Spencer (spencer@motley.club)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 10:05:27 JST Spencer it's been months since I played a game
I am itching for it -
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Spencer (spencer@motley.club)'s status on Thursday, 22-Dec-2022 10:04:16 JST Spencer this is an evergreen post at this point, but my gosh, I want to play more #netrunner