skep
1 month ago
I think you should do it anyway! The way I see it, nobody gets "good" at writing until they start doing it about things they genuinely care about. If you're feeling inspired, why not roll with it?
skep
1 month ago
Hey, thank you! It's been a couple months, time to figure out which one I will unearth the truth of next...
badgraph1csghost
1 month ago
Garfield: "I hate mondays." / Hagar the Horrible: "Before you go pillaging, remember to take out the rubbish!" / Cathy: "Summer dresses, ack!" / Calvin & Hobbes: "This preoccupation with Nietzschean perspectivism borders on the Kafkaesque."
emilynhoward
1 month ago
Is there a pin or patch or hat that we get? A secret handshake or hand sign?
skep
1 month ago
@Emily Well gosh, I would think that's up to the Skepperdoodle Club president to decide
brachypelmide
1 month ago
wait how the hell did you create 3 update notifications. what's this dark magic
brachypelmide
1 month ago
nevermind neocities shat itself on my end. back to defcon 5. pretend i dont exist
skep
1 month ago
Nothing new today, just spent a lot of time improving semantic elements and other small accessibility-related changes.
skep
1 month ago
@brachy Sometimes Neocities does that when I re-upload my entire site. I delete the extras so I'm not spamming feeds.
nohappynonsense
1 month ago
skep can you quiet down i'm trying to pretend like i'm going to write something this week and you're out here spamming update screenshots
skep
1 month ago
Okay those dark magic updates couldn't have been up for more than two minutes, you're telling me everyone's sitting here on a Friday afternoon constantly refreshing the page
nohappynonsense
1 month ago
i have my meta rayban things set to auto-update my neocities feed page every 5 seconds so that's how i caught it
brachypelmide
1 month ago
wrong, actually, there are precisely 92 people constantly refreshing their neocities pages at this very moment. they watch. they linger. th
skep
1 month ago
There, this very crucial error that has gone entirely unnoticed for three months has been fixed
imagine not posting on your site for over a month, lol, what kind of shit writer you'd have to be to do something like that
Yeah, after a month I think you'd have to give up writing altogether and take up stamp collecting or something
A month isn't really that long to go without producing polished art of some kind I'd say. In any case I just wanted to say I admire your commitment to creating a polished experience, and ability to write about the most mundane of things in an entertaining way. Which makes me wonder, do you do some other kind of writing outside of this website?
"Art" might be overselling what I do a bit, but I appreciate the compliments. And I do! But not nearly as fun though. My day job is writing instructional documentation for software. Still a paid gig!
Definitely not the kind of writing I had in mind haha
I am genuinely impressed by how often you update your site and how much content is on it. My site is just a trickle by comparison. I do know the feeling of "I should be writing something" all the time, but I also know that creativity is like the tide and comes and goes on its own terms.
Also, once in a state of extreme stress I almost took up stamp collecting as a hobby. I don't know how to say this in a way that doesn't offend actual stamp collectors, but if you find yourself starting a stamp collection that may be a cry for help.
I actually *did* have a stamp collection, and now that I've remembered that fact I realize it would be something good to write about. So I'm going to leave you in suspense, which is the first time a stamp collection has ever had that effect on anybody.
It's nice to have that kind of rotation where one can tinker with the code, isn't it? I get writing droughts where I have nothing to say but then feel connected to my little site by adding little things here and there. It looks like you use an SSG? I regret not doing that, meh >.<