It's been a year since I started this website projects and much has happened (just not here). This time of the year brings this nice little anniversary into a month that I always consider to be somewhat moody by itself. To say that August feels like the beginning of autumn would be an overreach, but then the supermarkets already offer gingerbread over here. It's holiday time, with the most beautiful part of summer is still ahead, but you can tell that the days are creeping shorter and shorter.
Enough melancholy, the bad weather is wearing me down. August is goth summer, anyway - thunderstorms, blooming gardens at night, festivals. I will never look as cool as I did in my teenage days, but growing older is not all bad - I can allow myself to love a variety of things and most importantly I like myself a lot more than I did back then. I think that's neat. I love being an adult, actually - my mental health might be all over the place, but I feel somewhat capable of caring for that nowadays.
Talking about caring for things, I'd love to care for this site more - to tend to it like the garden it can be. I decided to try out the static site generator 11ty for it and I genuinely believe that it might help combat the feeling of having to return with something big and flashy after a while. Social Media did a number on me there - the pressure to perform for an audience of (presumably) 0 is still there. I'm just here to have a fun silly goose time and I put too much pressure and expectation on it all. Whatever, 11ty is actually convenient and pairs well with the first big redesign I did in the beginning of this year. Anyway, after the redesign is before the redesign. Let's see where this gets us.
Postscriptum: Hell hath no fury like Kiwi trying to work with date parsing. I know it isn't hard, which makes it worse - but I am notoriously impatient. I think I had similar issues back when I tried to use it with D3.js (I really want to work with D3 again - alternatively datavis in python and blender? It's been too long and I have too much to do!)