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whisperpeirI've written and scrapped a few essays without posting. Either I fall into free-write journaling habits or I revert back to my time in marketing and spit out a flimsy "how to" article. Tonight I'm putting mild frustration aside and posting something.
Since finding DreamWidth, I've enjoyed surfing the indie / personal / small web so immensely that it's inspired a mini web dev kick. Here's a temporal list of recent projects:
- Finished(ish)→ A CSS animated splash page for my neglected website. The browser drifts around a massive collage I put together from public domain images. After learning a little about image compression, this picture is large with a low, 425KB footprint. The aesthetics of some of these compression techniques are chef's kiss. I did run into an issue with Dark Reader that I'll tinker with soon. Speaking of which, I want to do something about this blog's night mode, yikes.
- Fiddling with→ Yesterday I spent quite a few hours poking at Apache settings. Today it's running, and I've written a few basic PHP scripts. Tomorrow I plan to go through this simple guestbook tutorial.
- Up next→ I'd get a kick out of a menstrual cycle counter webpage. I'd title it THE BLOOD MOON RISES, complete with moon animation and maybe a color theme that goes from black to red as the days count up.
Or I might learn to knit socks. Hey look, a post !!
