i’m proud of myself :)
not necessarily for the physical end products (although like hell yeah! i’ve got some cosy socks!) but because i had to do a bunch of emotional work on the way. like,
related to the previous post: the thing about advice is that you have to learn how to use advice
a non-exhaustive list of things that got in my way:
occasionally i come across the advice “do it scared” and “what’s the worst that could happen?” and “anxiety can’t kill you”. many times from strangers or people who did not care to know me
it was a real eye-opener the first time someone said it in a way that wasn’t condescending. they were genuinely interested in my struggles and offered it as advice that worked for them and something meaningful they wanted to share with me
i think the implication…
i promised myself to limit the number of posts about the website. something something health of a platform inversely correlated with posts about said platform. part truth part superstition
but there were still a bunch of thoughts i wanted to get out of the way so uh here they are
spent a while making the post background have a dotted square pattern like in the hobonichi techo. i’ve never even owned one of these notebooks, but…
is that you can feel real bad for being no contact on a family member’s birthday, open up your journal, see the linked entry for last year, read up on that disaster that you’d totally forgotten about, and feel a bit of peace for missing out on that this year round
had a sudden burst of hyperfocus and made a mask cover even though i’m not great at sewing and didn’t know what i was doing. i traced the mask and winged it, and it shows because there’s various parts that weren’t quite the right shape and had to be adjusted once the mask wasn’t flat on my desk. turns out that thinking in 3D is kinda hard (but also kinda exciting)!! it’s held on by being tucked into the corners,…
it’s a pretty rare event here, for which i’m grateful
my partner used it as an excuse to bail on a work meeting. i used it to marvel at how flushing toilets preceded electricity, and to feel kind of weird about the amount of things i wanted to do which used electricity, including “boring” stuff like laundry
was introduced to OKLCH as an alternative to RGB. most explanations do a good job of explaining the LCH part (Lightness, Chroma, Hue). but where’s the OK from? apparently it’s derived from the Oklab color space. so i thought maybe this is like the CIELAB color space, where the CIE is an acronym for the institution that developed it? maybe if i search the name of the person who introduced it, i’ll find their site and a blog…
it was real nice! would recommend to a friend
brought a good sandwich (veggie chicken, sun-dried tomatoes, olives, pesto, cucumber. remember to press the sandwich to mush all the good flavours together!). would also recommend this to a friend
did a bit more work on the site! it’s now got
my profile picture was purple and blue on cohost and while i did like it i think it would have been a bit too rich and heavy for the vibe i was going for here. for the main colour i’ve chosen a kind of cool green which is one of my favourite…