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February Plus, the new subscription service where you click a button (this post) and see what else I’ve been up to this month. Wow!

January update, but it’s the middle of February.

It sure is 2023 all right.

more thoughts and things

assorted thoughts and things

It took me a solid ~5 minutes of running Jekyll, closing it, clearing the cache, restarting, rinse and repeat, before I realized this post wasn’t showing up because I was refreshing my live blog page and not the localhost.

Anyway, assorted musings with minimal relation.

I discovered this lovely blog last night and have subsequently been compelled to get all techy on my devices

The internet is so fucking stupid (complimentary).

A less poetic follow-up.

I’ve had some variation of the “Always Own Your Platform” page link floating around my site for ages. It’s good, I like it. I also found it via quick search-skim, because my Full Thoughts™ on the topic have been formed through countless articles of varying formality and subject matter, which means writing an Opinion Piece myself would mean a very long and potentially frustrating trek through the internet wilderness trying to source my ideas.

That said, in the interest of putting it in my own words, even if those words have citations of the “just trust me dude” variety… what the heck, here ya go.

It’s a lie.

Please give me your hands and tell me how safe you feel in your perfectly defended privacy.

https://askmolly.substack.com/p/shapeshifter

Went on an accessibility bingeread lately, because A) it’s important, B) I can always do better, and C) it’s been on the mind lately far as web-based visual storytelling is concerned.

This is not a project ramble, though. Mostly I’m posting this publicly as an accountability check; things I think(/hope) I’m doing well, and reminders for future edits.

There are two parts to this but I can’t be bothered to put it on two separate pages (for now, anyway). The 404 part is below; click here for the new project rambling.

So this is a thing now. Additional context:

I have a frankly ridiculous amount of random little pages floating around

So, it’s been almost two years. Since launching this site I have done a whole lotta nothing with it, although

Wow, it sure has been a year! Awfully quiet around here. But as of today I finally backed up an old project of mine,

There’s a certain thrill to hand-coding a website like this.

Had this tutorial bookmarked for ages and it’s about time I actually used it! So far so good….