can't believe herman melville created his own site, pretty rad

that line.gif is something special

that sounds very cool! have fun!

after the writing retreat comes the writing attack

The package is in transit. Do not reveal yourself until you receive the signal.

Thank you for the question. I don't have one because I uh *checks notes* never figured out how to set one up. But maybe I will look into it.

i created a bootleg as hell way to do it yourself if youre interested

Dang, I put that in the mail a week ago. Now I'm worried about all the ones I mailed after.

(Just kidding, I'm a pro. My Christmas card recipient list is sorted by distance in descending order)

skep using his stamp collection, i see

surely I'll get my card any day now :)

If you don't, make sure to call the post office and complain

I understand about 50% of what you're saying, so I'll take your word for it.

I could explain it in detail with images and code snippets and stuff but I'd need some sort of dedicated web space for that

Ooh, exciting. Any hints for how the changes will look?

As per our prior discussions, I am eager to see your take on "frutiger gothic".

@pixelglade I won't talk about specifics of the layout or colors because all of that might change, but I am looking for something simpler visually than the current layout, where the content feels a little more unbounded and bubbled than the current layout.

@skep I have already desaturated the Windows 2000 desktop and photoshopped some headstones in.

I don't, but it makes sense to me, I vaguely recall that HTML and XML use a similar methodology and XML is basically nothing but made-up tags.

Biggest caveats I can think of would be to not replace semantic tags (which the article mentioned), and your code could be less intuitive for others to interpret (likely not a huge concern)

i don't use them, they feel wrong to me in a way i can't explain

@skep, Yeah the advice is not to replace the semantic tags, which I don't want to do. Problem is, even semantic tags like "section" and "article" can get really vague really fast when you're trying to figure out what is where. And since I insist on doing everything by hand I want my code to be more legible.

@irony-machine The only thing that feel really wrong to me is that you can use emoji (!!!) in them.

I tried this a while ago with a friend and we were stunned that it worked! but I haven't used them so far

really late to the party but i've used custom html tags myself and they work just fine. in fact, i've used them against the spec without any problems - before i redesigned my reviews page, each review was literally a element. no hyphen or anything, so they're not necessary, but you do run the risk of creating conflicts with existing semantic tags and potentially ones that could be added in the future.

ok it turns out neocities doesn't like parsing element-like text. i meant that "each review was literally a [review] element"