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1.Random Rambles
May. 12th, 2025 04:03 pmI spent the last couple of hours trying to figure out how to properly customize my journal and while I'm not done yet, I'm satisfied with the result so far! Not that I made significant edits to it, but the need to tweak something here and there always gets the best of me.
Fast forward to me dipping my toes in CSS coding, man I feel like if an ant had had access to every bit of human information for a fleeting moment and went mad. CSS is doing some lovecraftian shit to me, like I'm currently doubting the human nature of programmers and web designers. (jk!)
Anyway, cool and intriguing stuff that I'll learn to munch on later. I only have experience with basic HTML, plus I feel a special kind of nostalgia attached to it. When I was 11 or something I used to be active on a couple of forums: pokémon stuff, videogames in general stuff and Photoshop+basic HTML stuff. The latter forum consisted of a variety of Photoshop and HTML tutorials (like grids and show-when-hovering pictures) with "classes" and "exams", all dutifully locked so they weren't at the mercy of lurkers, with the purpose of… I guess managing the graphics of your own forum. It was basic stuff, but the mods were helping each one of us members to learn this stuff- for free!
I mean, I know PS tutorials didn't go extinct (thank god, every 3 months I forget how to warp text in circle) but the main difference is that the person behind it is, rightly, receiving some sort of compensation, like through ads on their website maybe. I highly doubt that the forum I'm talking about was monetized, the forumfree platform was literally just, you guessed it, free forums.
Maybe it's just 2025 and the whole "monetize every hobby you have" mindset that's so common out of necessity now that gives me a different perspective on things I learnt on that forum 15 years ago. As a kid I took it for granted, just playing around with Photoshop was fun and building or looking for a small community around it was a natural consequence. Now I feel like you can't pick up stitching without someone telling you to set up your Etsy or whatever first.
Anyway, I didn't mean to go all "back in my days", sometimes I just get nostalgic about the little things made sweet only by the passage of time and I feel grateful to have even lived them, even if they didn't mean much at the time. Bet I'll be spouting the same stuff 10 years from now about me typing here!
@ me from the future: Hi!!! Do we have a stable job yet?? Did we learn CSS??
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And if you read so far: I love you, have something sweet!!! <3
Fast forward to me dipping my toes in CSS coding, man I feel like if an ant had had access to every bit of human information for a fleeting moment and went mad. CSS is doing some lovecraftian shit to me, like I'm currently doubting the human nature of programmers and web designers. (jk!)
Anyway, cool and intriguing stuff that I'll learn to munch on later. I only have experience with basic HTML, plus I feel a special kind of nostalgia attached to it. When I was 11 or something I used to be active on a couple of forums: pokémon stuff, videogames in general stuff and Photoshop+basic HTML stuff. The latter forum consisted of a variety of Photoshop and HTML tutorials (like grids and show-when-hovering pictures) with "classes" and "exams", all dutifully locked so they weren't at the mercy of lurkers, with the purpose of… I guess managing the graphics of your own forum. It was basic stuff, but the mods were helping each one of us members to learn this stuff- for free!
I mean, I know PS tutorials didn't go extinct (thank god, every 3 months I forget how to warp text in circle) but the main difference is that the person behind it is, rightly, receiving some sort of compensation, like through ads on their website maybe. I highly doubt that the forum I'm talking about was monetized, the forumfree platform was literally just, you guessed it, free forums.
Maybe it's just 2025 and the whole "monetize every hobby you have" mindset that's so common out of necessity now that gives me a different perspective on things I learnt on that forum 15 years ago. As a kid I took it for granted, just playing around with Photoshop was fun and building or looking for a small community around it was a natural consequence. Now I feel like you can't pick up stitching without someone telling you to set up your Etsy or whatever first.
Anyway, I didn't mean to go all "back in my days", sometimes I just get nostalgic about the little things made sweet only by the passage of time and I feel grateful to have even lived them, even if they didn't mean much at the time. Bet I'll be spouting the same stuff 10 years from now about me typing here!
@ me from the future: Hi!!! Do we have a stable job yet?? Did we learn CSS??
-
And if you read so far: I love you, have something sweet!!! <3
