guy who just happens to get really into blogging on October 1, 2024, without understanding what compels him

something I believe strongly is that you cannot skip track on Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice". Once it starts playing, you have to listen to the whole thing

My friends^[who?] should be allowed to add Wikipedia-style superscript notes to my posts

had a truly sick idea last night revolving around combining short-term cookies with JavaScript setTimeouts in order to fake long-polling (because you have to have GitHub API credentials in order to poll the GitHub repo) and then realized the only user who needs long-polling to auto-refresh is... the person who has API credentials

image posts... I need them

the site upgrades are piling up, I should really backport them to octobug 🤔
among some post editor improvements (better mobile support!) NEW posts should have a new permalink structure while OLD posts retain their old URLs (to hopefully avoid bombarding feeds with "new" posts, and to avoid breaking what I'm sure are hundreds of links to my first ~25 brilliant posts)

are so much higher when deleting the post requires deleting a file from a git repo 😰

hopping into the group chat to tell the squad how non-attached I feel today

I timed badly the delivery of a new phone (my old one was from 2020 and had had its battery replaced twice… I need a bigger battery, apparently) and its accompanying case so I was carrying it around for the last 4 days with no case and it was kind of terrifying.

The new case has arrived and it’s a huge relief to know that I am at least somewhat protected from fucking up my phone now