The Monthly Crunch

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the rush of relief when you've been troubleshooting for 2 hours over a single typo in ur code 🤪
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chesca's avatar chesca 3 days ago

as someone w/ tangled spaghetti code, I know that feeling very well. T___T

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transferns's avatar transferns 2 days ago

it happens to the best of us...

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criters... but it's too late, it's zenny's laptime
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maxcrunch's avatar maxcrunch 1 week ago

I've collected quite the collection of buttons! I've updated to change the layout & add mutuals who weren't there before. I got the idea for the layout after seeing @chesca's neighborhood page with all the cute houses. Shortly after I went shopping and saw one of those giant plaza signs and thought it looked like a buttons page, and here we are.

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maxcrunch's avatar maxcrunch 1 week ago

oops I forgot to make it mobile friendly. well I'll do that later.

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two-reeler's avatar two-reeler 1 week ago

Love it! Thanks for the inclusion. I really need to make one of these soon.

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badgraph1csghost's avatar badgraph1csghost 1 week ago

im so bad about updating my own button wall :(

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transferns's avatar transferns 1 week ago

omg, i just realized i don't have your button for some reason!! i'll fix that now :)

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tchun's avatar tchun 1 week ago

ong i had the same thought while driving past a plaza the other day lol, this is great. thanks for having me, and i do have a button now btw, its on my homepage :)

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maxcrunch's avatar maxcrunch 1 week ago

Don't feel too bad, this is the first time I've updated it since last year... I hope I didn't miss anyone but let me know if I did! (also win99 thanks for the button, I actually got lost browsing your site and then forgot to look for one)

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maxcrunch's avatar maxcrunch 1 week ago

Tchun can't believe I missed that! it's right there!

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happy Friday the 13th!
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maxcrunch's avatar maxcrunch 1 week ago

I will take my wins and small celebrations where I can get them in this hellscape

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stoneroad's avatar stoneroad 1 week ago

Well you know what they say, 13 is the luckiest number in the alphabet. oh...

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sneekrealm's avatar sneekrealm 1 week ago

to celebrate friday the 13th (and wednesday the 11th) i stubbornly refused to get my workbreak of next week rescheduled for my mental integritys sake whilst my manager on sick leave (flu) so now the shop will be partially closed next week #notmyproblem

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maxcrunch's avatar maxcrunch 1 week ago

100% not your problem! proud of you and your manager for not giving in and taking care of yourselves.

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I think the most interesting part about finding out somebody stole your code is looking at how messy their site is. so you stole my layout just to mess it up? You're not even making it better? can't figure out the code and you gave up and just put a mess online? I don't mind it if people use my code to learn, but I don't understand the point if you're just going to steal it and then make it look awful.
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maxcrunch's avatar maxcrunch 1 week ago

I mean some people make gross looking sites on purpose which is cool, but if you're not even going to learn the basics of CSS grid then why are you stealing a layout that uses that.

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maxcrunch's avatar maxcrunch 1 week ago

I'm not offended or anything, just feel like you've wasted your own time in this entire endeavor and I don't get it.

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underwhite's avatar underwhite 1 week ago

like seriously, if a person steals code to make their site better and then makes it more awful I don't think they should manage a website or even own one at all, xD

stoneroad's avatar stoneroad 1 week ago

I don't know, I don't feel it's all that serious tbh. In fairness, I don't think (at least not that I know of) anyone's stolen any of my code yet, so I'll see how I react when that happens (if ever)? I disagree with the idea about not thinking they should manage a website at all. I think that’s a terrible thought.

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underwhite's avatar underwhite 1 week ago

@stoneroad agreed. but hey, it's just my opinion, and it's fine if you disagree, most people take this seriously. it's a little overboard but I think I would rather see them embarrass themselves

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maxcrunch's avatar maxcrunch 1 week ago

I'm not fond of the one-to-one steal, given that there are so many free templates out there. also, if people just reach out to me I'm probably fine for the most part with them using my stuff. I frankly don't put enough effort into my coding to be that worried about it. I just think it's interesting and I don't understand it personally 😂 it's a little baffling.

there should be a trend on websites where everyone makes a trash pile page. on this page you put all of your ideas that you don't like. that whole your trash is someone else's treasure, that applies to ideas too. let someone execute something better than you would have, especially if you have no plans to execute at all
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maxcrunch's avatar maxcrunch 1 week ago

I want to do this but right now it's just an idea that I don't feel like executing lol

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n-has-a-site's avatar n-has-a-site 1 week ago

thats a nice idea

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stoneroad's avatar stoneroad 1 week ago

I have something somewhat similar, kinda-sorta. I just call it my "demos" page, filled with stuff that isn't finished yet, or may never get finished? *shrugs*

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transferns's avatar transferns 1 week ago

ooo that's a fun idea

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maxcrunch's avatar maxcrunch 1 week ago

yesss I love that this is already a thing

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oopsiedoodle's avatar oopsiedoodle 2 weeks ago

Removing my Reddit presence is definitely on my to do list 🥴

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sneekrealm's avatar sneekrealm 2 weeks ago

someone in a server im in got majorly teased about their reddit (connected to their discord) to the point they ended up deleting their reddit account, one way to go by it certainly 😭 it made me manually go thru and delete some of my comments there also... (fortunately not many, havent had much a presence there)

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emilynhoward's avatar emilynhoward 2 weeks ago

I only used Reddit for about a month and then deleted my account. I am interested in why folks are removing their data--AI scraping? Or privacy concerns?

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maxcrunch's avatar maxcrunch 2 weeks ago

The main reason I'm removing my presence is because I've been online stalked multiple times in my life. so if I leave a site I prefer to leave entirely! I'm not too worried about it right now but I just have these habits from those experiences. but yeah generally I think people are more concerned about data privacy now than they were before AI existed.

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Loved your write on lonliness...it seems we are pretty much born alone and die alone but spend an enormous amount of time trying to fill in that space in between...adding you to my faves
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maxcrunch's avatar maxcrunch 2 weeks ago

thanks! I find it to be a fascinating topic because I've never had problems being alone, and often prefer it, so a lot of that post was trying to explore a dynamic that I'm not familiar with

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oopsiedoodle's avatar oopsiedoodle 2 weeks ago

Yeah, I definitely use the internet as a numbing tool so that I can avoid the reality of being me. Lol. Though, I think I like being alone a lot more than most people. I always have something to work on that is not screen related - does that still count as solitude? My guess is that people have always sought ways to avoid true solitude, internet or not. But also, what IS true solitude?

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maxcrunch's avatar maxcrunch 2 weeks ago

You bring up a good point I didn't address - the difference between cognitive and physical solitude. physically being away from others vs cognitively distancing from other thoughts. to be in true cognitive solitude, you're not reading (screen or paper) or consuming other ideas. I think what I'm talking about in this post is probably leaning more to physical solitude. but now you've got me thinking!

stoneroad's avatar stoneroad 2 weeks ago

I actually wish it were longer. You just scratched the surface of the depths this conversation can reach.

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sneekrealm's avatar sneekrealm 2 weeks ago

ohhhhh i wanna chew on this one w my thoughts if not words also......will see

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maxcrunch's avatar maxcrunch 2 weeks ago

@stoneroad my brain has been percolating more thoughts, I'll definitely do a follow up soon!

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someone emailed me to ask why I wasn't in the no AI web ring and I just want everyone to be aware that I'm not in any web rings.
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maxcrunch's avatar maxcrunch 2 weeks ago

🍳🥚🍳🥚🍳🥚 eggs are so good

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emilynhoward's avatar emilynhoward 2 weeks ago

So someone has taken it upon themselves to be the web ring police?

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emilynhoward's avatar emilynhoward 2 weeks ago

I don't join them because most of them require adding JavaScript to your page and I am for no earthly good reason an HTML/CSS purist.

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maxcrunch's avatar maxcrunch 2 weeks ago

Yes that was my thought too but I ran out of comments. why are we policing something like that?? I hope people understand that everyone makes websites for different reasons. not everyone is out there joining every club that applies to them - absence of membership means nothing. you can't draw conclusions about that without understanding each individual webmaker

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