the possibility of blogging!

starting a blog

written on 2020-04-04

hello wrld

it's 11:11 pm right now where i am. i spent the last couple of hours looking up possibilities for digital blogging and journaling. some of the ones i found:

odie
- this looks like a promising and easy way to make collaborative websites. maybe i should pitch this to my class...
metalsmith
itty bitty
blot
small victories
binder
bearblog
aegea

why blog

i had one those rushes of ideas and thoughts after i finished eating dinner (which was this pasta recipe by gabie kook) and was kind of scrambling to keep track of everything. now i have like 50 tabs open and i'm kinda overloaded, and i don't want to push everything to my firefox tab manager again (kind of like sweeping stuff under the carpet) so i said i'll make a blog. for myself, mostly...we'll see

many thoughts, head full, bunny meme. i think this is a sanrio character, it's sitting down and its head is bulging like one of those funny camera filters. the caption on top says "many thoughts" and the many looks like it was written over something; the bottom caption says "head full"; full also looks like a rewrite. alt text doesn't need to be this long..i'm just rambling

i'm also learning markdown while writing this. pretty cool, i like writing in text editor so this is pretty nice and i don't have to worry about html tags and what not.

some thoughts on blogging

i've been falling off the habit of journaling for quite some time, and also journaling, which i usually do in small pocket notebooks, has usually been for more personal stuff/day to day ephemera, mood swings/sloppy feelings, and rituals of winding down. (i could put everything into one notebook but a) my handwriting has been getting worse because i don't write by hand as often as i used to and b) i'm a virgo so i guess i have to compartmentalize and organize things..) i think this would be more of a ""work"" related platform which means
- digital hoarding
- ideas i'm working through to put into some kind of...material? practice (whatever that means)
- lots of pictures/documentation
- keeping track of things i'm learning (in a greater effort to be in touch with...what learning might mean, being better at learning or at least having a new relationship to it)
- keeping my friends updated with what i'm doing, which leads to
i've been thinking of ways to update those close to me ~~my circle? my network?~~ in ways that feel — admittedly in what feels like a selfish way — managable for my energy. i stopped using instagram a year ago to post things; i've never used twitter for anything other than bookmarking threads and articles i want to read; i don't think i have the confidence to pop up in your inbox w tinyletter...also i don't like how these platforms (i guess including tinyletter because it shows up in your inbox) are looped into systems of..."content" (specifically within corporate/monetized "social media networks")? like...i feel like instagram and twitter make me go batshit sometimes even though i try to minimize the ways i engage. and obviously my inbox is full of garbage..so this feels like a good, minimal way to create a working archive for myself, that other people can opt into if they want/if i want them to also
cool way to lean back into...learning about technology/digital tools..whatever that means. my relationship to technology/programming/computation, or whatever encompasses that, has been really alienating (mostly due to fucked up internalized + institutionalized cultures of work/academic production). but i know that there are things about this kind of study that excite and interest me...for instance, i'm writing this in a text editor right now so that i can publish it later when i figure out the deal with peer to peer networking and distributed systems..so this is kind of a stepping stone for that
practicing non-judgement with myself + the things i make + research. space to trust my values and desires + see things out at my own pace...we'll see how long i can keep it up for
i really appreciate when folks share their knowledge + thoughts + processes on blogs. maybe that will happen here, maybe it will not
i didn't realize i needed a sketchbook until i had to make one for class. now i write all kinds of stuff in there...i have a triple venn diagram for "embarrassing middle/high school interests" that only has "homestuck" and "john green" in it lol; anyway i have a lot of stuff in there that's basically illegible
i wonder how knowing this may or may not be public may change the way i write + share info, or the way i begin to trust myself + cherish what i think and feel. i always felt like posting on instagram, for instance, was performative and disingenuous and have considered several times what making a finsta would feel like. here is my..words finsta...

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the possibility of blogging!

hello wrld

why blog

some thoughts on blogging

stuff i was looking at today (vaguely organized)

generative text

reading

web publishing

applications/opportunities

art?

learning