i'm considering writing a reflection on my college cs education (e.g., my thoughts on the quality, what it has or has not prepared me for, how i think bloated u.s. tuition rates affected it) and about how i feel about the future (wrt life/postgrad/research) based on current experiences. hopefully i am still interested in writing it after my graduation, and it will be of interest to folks here
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it does kind of annoy me that i've had to put so much effort into organizing shit on my website for it to click right to my brain, but ehhh i'll do it if i have to.. ultimately i think it's because when i haven't touched my site for a while, i realize i want to take certain pages in a different direction than i'd previously thought (and that what id done prior might even be why i felt uninspired in the first place)
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projectc190
1 week ago
hopefully this is relatable and not insane.. i guess being willing to put this level of thoughtfulness into something is why i have a website rather than a social media page, etc. in the first place, lol
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projectc190
1 week ago
although re-organizing does help things click better, i guess most of all i need to let go of whatever expectations i have for my site, and just Do Shit and Remember To Have Fun
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othala
1 week ago
My solution to this problem was to just have multiple websites. It makes it easier to move on to new ideas without tearing the old ideas apart. Then you can kind of loosely network them.
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owthehedge
1 week ago
same here! usually when I'm feeling unmotivated with my site (or anything really this applies to other projects) it kind of just means it might be time for something to change. I'm considering making v4 of my site soon it feels about time. I'm really really happy with v3 but i wanna make it more accessible + change things up more. means learning a whole bunch of javascript though
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projectc190
1 week ago
did some reorganizing so i feel more comfortable writing about various different topics on my projects/articles page without committing myself to making a massive series lol. it's also a lot cleaner overall now
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not sure if i want to brand this (currently entirely theoretical) article as being about having adhd in higher education even though it will very likely be relevant
(ok, i guess i see how my site and general presence here makes me seem like a serious person, but tbf i also do a lot of dumb shit that i don't consider substantive enough to post on the open internet. if i did, the work it would take to update my site about it would take a lot more effort than the dumb shit in itself, which is why i don't bother lol)