Sunday, July 20, 2025 • 5 min read
In a way it was good for me to have started out blogging on Bearblog. It was simple enough, maybe a little too simple, but exactly what I needed to learn how to customize my experience with CSS and HTML – things I should’ve learned in school, but they kinda didn’t stick around in my head. Doing stuff like a DIY book section and trying to bootstrap a microblogging solution on top of Bearblog taught me a lot of things about rudimentary code logic and I’m eternally grateful for that.
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Saturday, July 19, 2025 →
Finished migrating my Mastodon profile to this blog. I hope this is the final migration. My current setup to make up for the lack of Ivory’s amazing timeline save and sync involves Reeder as a read-only Micro.blog client. Since Micro.blog doesn’t have the robust RSS capabilities of a dedicated reader and only allows for replies as the single way to interact with others, Reeder makes up for the former and satisfies the latter.
I get the timeline saved and synced and it’s just one timeline. If I want to reply, I just swipe to open the post in Micro.blog. Best of all is that it all works seamlessly!
Saturday, July 19, 2025 →
I think I’m done with migrating from Bearblog now. One thing I didn’t count on just working without my fiddling with it is the RSS feed. People who followed the RSS feed from my previous Bearblog don’t have to change anything because Micro.blog and Bearblog place the feeds at the same location.
Tuesday, June 10, 2025 • 2 min read
I’ve been meaning to write a post for my blog for a few weeks now, but it seems like the more time passed, the less I was willing to actually write anything. It doesn’t help that my blog experienced an existential crisis where I didn’t know what I was going to do with it. I felt like an oversharer at times and the sort of series I had going on were not exciting anymore, feeling more like chores than fun.
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Monday, February 17, 2025 →
I feel like blogging more and I would very much like to be less negative on this blog. It’s not like I am a negative/pessimistic person to be around, but the good stuff about me usually goes into my journal so I never go back and prop it up for a blog post (ie basically censoring the parts I don’t want to broadcast). Oftentimes, I just don’t upload because of the title requirement. So the things that I understand better, that are about a specific topic like some political event, are more likely to make it onto the blog because I can craft a title for it.
I keep bouncing between microblogging platforms and my blog because they don’t require a title but they have a character limit. I know this is an odd hill to die on, but I hate summing up everything I said with a descriptive name. Makes me think too much about the contents and possibly not hit publish after all. I want to post a long post (not a microblog actually), but not have to care about how it is presented, what metadata it should carry, etc.
I’ve been really inspired my Jedda’s microthoughts so I might do something to that extent.
Tuesday, November 5, 2024 • 2 min read
I was supposed to be studying for my upcoming exams this morning, but instead of doing that I revamped my blog and added some add-ons to it. I have ADHD so I’m kind of used to all of this, but it doesn’t make it less exhausting. In part, I don’t regret the changes I’ve made, like I often do after such hyperfocus sessions, because most of them were necessary — just not that high of a priority for me right now to drop everything else for it.
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