This past week has been really good! I feel that I’ve been kinder to myself in what I am currently dealing with. Dealing with our mental health can be a very weird, complex and difficult journey at times. But, I’ll try to talk about some of the highlights of this week!

Website changes

I’ve beeen doing a lot of work in my little space within the internet. A lot of these changes are inspired by benji’s website because I absolutely love their website. It feels like a space in the internet that is really taken care of. A place in the internet that feels its entirely theirs.

I am actually using their micropub client implementation. They were very kind to help me troubleshoot some authorization issues I had when trying to publish pages from the micropub client. So, huge shoutout to them!

Gallery

I’ve been wanting to find a place to make it easier to post on my website because I want to stop using social media apps as much as possible. Starting with my gallery, I changed it so that the photos are displayed in a grid.

It’s similar to what I remember Instagram looking like when I first started using it. The biggest reasons why I wanted to stop using Instagram is because I feel like I never see my friends’ posts anymore. I even forgot about friends that I used to interact with frequently because of the current state of the algorithm. Ever since it started becoming a cheap version of Tiktok I feel like the quality of what I see on my feed has decreased a lot.

What I like the most about this new implementation is that I can upload context to the photo’s note’s page. It’s similar to how I used to display them previousle, in which I added context as quotes on each of the photos, but I like the way it looks now better!

Listen

One thing that I found really cool about the sparkles client is that it has a lot of categories to chose when you create an entry. The listen entry was one that I hadn’t considered before! I’ve been making an effort to conciously listenting to music instead of just using as a background element, so this type of entry really fit this effort.

I had to mess a lot with the CSS and Go code of the template I’m using so that it showed according to what I wanted. The way I envisioned it in my head is that I wanted to resemble what an iPod showed when you played a song.

Just like my gallery, I can add notes to each of the songs that are added so that I can write some thoughts on the music I’m listening to. I think that is pretty cool!

Play

The play list I think it’s the one I worked the hardest to get the way I wanted. I initially duplicated the list I have for my listen section, but I got the idea of having floppy disks with the cover of each of the games. It was more complex than I thought it would be, but I managed to get it working!

What I do is I render a div with the floppy disk image as its background, and then inside the div I add the game’s cover as an image. It is a bit wonky and the way the cover is cropped probably won’t work with all of the covers that I add, but at least its a start that I can later polish!

Bookmarks

Lastly, I created my own bookmarks section. I think this was the first list that I implemented on my site that isn’t using the default list that my Hugo theme has included. I changed the elements of the entries so that it shows the link to the saved page, the tag and the date it was added.

I love growing my personal garden.

What’s next?

What I would love to do next is define what is a blog post and what is a log for me. I feel like a blog can be a log, but that is not always the case depending to what I’m adding to my site.

Once I decide how to handle both, I will work on changing my notes list so that it showcases the information clearer.

I also want to add a colophon page, finish my life stack page, and rework my now page a little bit so that it’s easier to update. I’ll keep you posted so you can give me your opinion! :D

The last thing I wanted to mention is that I finally bought a record player! I got a very quirky one. Apparently, Audio Technica released an updated version of a portable record player that they released a few years ago. It is listed as a good entry turntable (can you call it that if it’s got no table? lol), so I bit the bullet and bought it.

I received it a couple days ago and haven’t had the chance to try it! Here is a picture of it so that you can see what it looks like.

It’s much smaller than I expected! Which is great since I would like to be able to bring it around the apartment depending of where we want to listen to music. I’ll try it out this week and come back with my review!

Well, that’s the end for me today. I’ll be back next week with more stories!

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