Outtakes, etc.

I start so many things and then talk about them and then don’t finish them. I thought it might be fun to compile them all here so that they’re not lost to the sands of time.

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Incomplete projects that I posted about that are more or less abandoned in their current state

Weeknotes but fashion

In February (February! geez) I had the idea to write a recap framed by the fashion of xyz, which I excitedly posted about and then never touched again. I still like the idea and hope to return to it some day!

Weeknotes but calendar

In August, I thought about doing a low-effort (writing-wise) weeknotes layout structured like a calendar. Retro.app is structured like this and I think it’s really effective for showing a weekly overview.

I did something similar in October 2024 for Weird Web October’s day #4 prompt “Lists.” (Wow, it took me a moment to find this page because it’s utterly unfindable, lol. Also my WWO archive somehow still uses my old site version 6 layout. Perhaps I’ll leave it like that as a little snapshot, haha.)

Incomplete projects that I didn’t post about and have suffered secretly in shame over, or whatever

Cityscapes

Back in February I started Yuhki Demers’ visdev cityscapes class and made barely any progress. Embarrassing! I want to finish it this year (preferably, in the next couple of months).

Weeknotes zine

This is from 2024, but I actually wrote what would have been “Weeknotes 20” as a tiny zine, photographed it, put it into a blog post, and decided it wasn’t good enough to post.

Well, I’m dropping it here now. A fun detail I can pick out is that this must have been shortly after I acquired my f/1.4 camera lens, haha.

(here is what weeknotes 20 actually turned out to be)

Other drafts that I intend to complete, for real

Stardew Valley farm tour

I got back into Stardew Valley in the summer/fall, and was motivated enough to start writing a farm tour post. Then I went on vacation, and then Hades II came out, and I forgot about it. Perhaps I can still pull something together though, even if it’s more screenshots than writing as I initially planned.

Some screenshots, originally posted to Mastodon in September:

Chili crisp page

This is published, but pretty much a work-in-progress still. I hope to fill it out more this year.

Site redesign + restructuring

Since my 2024 post about my Eleventy setup, I’ve redesigned my site and restructured my templates. I’ve started working on an updated post, but this languished and was forgotten. I want to finish it sometime in the next couple of months!

Handwriting font

I briefly tried creating a font out of my own handwriting, which was fun! I want to spend more time on that next year, which will take some work since I think I’ll need to learn how to use more complex software to do the ligatures and things that I want.

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The software complaining containment zone

I try not to complain too much on social media because I know that it’s mostly just unproductive. There are more worthwhile things to spend my energy doing. But of course, sometimes the compulsion to write something mean is too strong to resist—especially when I’ve repeatedly encountered something frustrating. Perhaps I’ll compile these every year and it will form some kind of interesting anthropological look for future readers (me) at the modern issues that plague us (me).

Anyway, here are my drafts, which is complaining and a bit of shitposting.

(micro)blog posts

I wrote these in a big text file.

• february — using instagram is such a miserable experience. the home feed is like: 3 posts from people you follow, and then an ad, and then a ‘suggested’ post from someone you don’t follow. you have to snooze suggested posts every 30 days. what are we doing here.
  • december update: unbelievably, it somehow got worse. it’s like every 1–3 posts now that you get an ad. every single inch of instagram is infuriating. (yes, i know, the solution here is to stop using it, this is why this is the petty complaining zone)
• june — WHY!! ARE WE GETTING AI TO DO THINGS LIKE SUMMARIZE EMAILS WE RECEIVE INTO POINT FORM AND THEN ASKING AI TO SUMMARIZE THE EMAILS WE SEND FROM POINT FORM INTO PROFESSIONAL LANGUAGE. WHY!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA BIRDSCREAM.GIF
• september: insert doomer blog post about how bad websites are. why are they so bad? bizarre.

Mastodon drafts

• kind of a wild experience now how instagram is like one ad per post in the feed now and also ads aren’t labeled. and when it’s not ads it’s suggested reels or contacts or expiring stories.
  • correction: ads are labeled, but the little sponsored text has moved from the top of the post to the bottom right corner, on top of the image, making it 1) harder to read, and 2) identifiable as an ad only after you’ve seen it. congrats on the innovation.
• i should be at the club (on vacation)
• sorry for joking about safari. the real go fuck yourself platform is outlook
• the workday really just is think
• typing and deleting toots about how much i hate slop. there r better things to do with my time!! just frustrated at how much easier it is now to fill the web with junk. like we needed more junk mail and spam, but now it’s dressed up in proper grammar and em dashes and lists of 3. etc. old man yells at cloud. everyone has said this already. i will keep saying this. you are tired of reading it. i am also tired of reading it. old man yells at cloud!!!
• the problem with winter is that daylight is so limited so taking an afternoon nap feels like an enormous waste of sun
• it’s always garamond
• getting back into stardew is so dangerous
• Every Commercial Website Sucks And Every Personal Website Is Beautiful: Why Business Incentives Ruin Everything From Ads To User-Unfriendly Interfaces To

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Very realistic aspirations for next year

• Personal recipe catalogue website
• Dressup toy
• Hobonichi layout catalogue
• hourly comic day including the evening hours, which is when i usually lose steam
• 30/30 pleinairpril
• 31/31 october art challenge, whatever it may be
• site redesign version 8 maybe