Finished reading: The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury by Bill Watterson. Still awesome. đź“š
Blogs
I’ve been trying to stop my “delete anything old I’ve ever made” crusade, but it’s hard. I’m really weird about stuff like that. If I’m not using it, or nothing interesting is going on with it, I tend to dispose of it (whatever “it” is). The downside is I have nothing to show off to demonstrate I’ve “done stuff” before.
I’ve been making websites, blogs, whatever you want to call things that have a domain name since 2006, the year I graduated high school (I think I was just finishing up when I bought my first domain name).
It’s all lost to time, aside from what the Internet Archive has picked up, which isn’t much. Some of that’s probably for the best, as I’ve had some lows in my time that probably resulted in posts I don’t want to revisit.
The main point is I’ve got a pretty good history of internet and website evolution under my belt. I started out with raw XHTML and CSS, then moved on to a PHP-powered barebones blog, then moved on to a proper CMS, namely WordPress, in about 2007. I even made a custom theme and everything.
I’ve messed with WordPress, Joomla, Drupal, BlogEngine.Net, SilverStripe, Moveable Type, MediaWiki, MODX, Ghost, and probably some others.
I’ve even messed with the paid offerings, such as WordPress.com, Ghost Pro, SquareSpace, PostHaven, blah blah blah.
Right now, I’m using Micro.blog, which spits out a static blog site, and it’s worked wonderfully.
Yeah, it’s fun spinning up a VPS and rolling everything yourself…and I can do it. I feel like because of my background messing around with getting content on the internet, I’m able to appreciate services such as Micro.blog even more.
There was no point to this post, I guess. I just wish I had more online “history” to show people. I’m envious of those who have ALL their blog posts from post 1. Keep it up!
Finished reading: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Forgot one of the main reasons I have an iPad is for reading comics and graphics novels. Absolutely love IDW’s take on TMNT. 📚
It’s annoying when all the car chargers in the parking garage at my work are in use, but it’s even worse when it’s fucking Cybertrucks…they totally need that 6kW of power! No way they can charge at home, obviously
Oh man, I’m so glad there’s a black censor bar on this artwork. Can’t have BOOBIES on MY devil music! 🎵
Still sick, but at the tail end of it. I hope that this is it for sick season for me. Last December through January I was REALLY sick and I can’t handle a repeat of that!
Orange phones again! I missed my orange Nokia Lumia I was running around with prior to the iPhone 7. I had to import it from Finland because it wasn’t released in the US. Good times! Proof attached (I miss my 2017 hair too)
Every time I play a newer modern game, I get lost in two seconds. I either end up at the start of the section, or wander in circles and can’t figure out what to do. Is…is it me? 🎮
My “old man yells at cloud” moment is always when I start up a new game and have to invert the controls in the options. It used to be the DEFAULT!!! 👴🏻 🎮
Seeing a long time favorite band fall apart as members leave over being paid peanuts for constant touring is depressing, but something about seeing it happening over social media makes it even worse. Ugh
All I do anymore after work is pace around our room blasting different albums on the Apple TV/HomePods and watch the live lyrics scroll. That’s like, my main hobby all year. I’m fine with it.