23 SEP 24

I didn't know how serious I was about actually using this page, but I keep thinking about blogging – and then I realized I could write entries straight into the HTML (RichText-style) editor, which allows me to focus more significantly on the actual text. I love to live dangerously! 

My favorite blog nonpareil is the Ditty Bops' 2006 cross-country blogspot documentation of their eco-tour. It was the first time I really encountered evidence of lesbians, like, in the wild, and who weren't the particularly sexless Ellen DeGeneres. I didn't think I was a lesbian yet: I thought I was decidedly non-sexual; I wasn't anything, as far as I was concerned; what did I care about Ellen DeGeneres's sexlessness? But I kept reading the comic strip Abby DeWald had drawn that showed both musicians sleeping next to each other in the same bed. It meant something to me. 

And in the ultra-slick Web Point Whatever, I miss that feeling of discovery – strange gems you'd stumble into, bizarre little labors of love. I've been writing online for years in various locales, but in an effort not to doxx myself, I've tried not to include any personal information. When my life was more compartmentalized, this worked well. But now, I want to write about things, and I can't. So – why not stick it on my vanity project? 

For now, I do not want to figure out how to code comments, so no one can make any. This is the ultimate power......................

coding

 

 25 MAR 24

"Iliria," you might be asking, "why the hell are you trying to code a blog from scratch instead of using any of the hundreds of websites that are begging, desperately, to make a blog for you?"

Well, first you have to understand: I have a bad personality. Despite my best efforts, it seems to have taken root, so we're all stuck with it.

"Iliria, are you writing this blog post straight into the HTML file of this page, like someone with terrible digital hygiene?" you might also be asking.

Because of the personality thing, and also because I have the excuse of never having taken a web design class in my life, I'm afraid to tell you the answer is yes. (I actually don't even know if this is verboten, or if this is is what "digital hygiene" refers to; I'm just assuming it is, based on the kinds of things I've heard my CS students moan about.) (To be clear, I'm not teaching them CS; I'm teaching them about writing, for all my sins.) (In fact, sometimes they teach me about CS, if they're so inclined.)

The gift of making your own strange little corner of the internet, of course, is that there's no need for it to be replicable. Why create a highly functional, well-operating directory based on JS and React when I can simply wing it? No one's firing up this baby but me, after all, and I still can't remember what API stands for!

Well, that seems like enough self-deprecating humor that I'm not monetizing via some free speech absolutist ("absolutist") newsletter platform, huh? Let's see if we can add a tag to this entry, or what.

coding

 

 24 MAR 24

This is an entry about teaching. No, really! It is! I swear!

 

 23 MAR 24

This isn't an entry about teaching. Really! It isn't! I promise you! Actually, it isn't an entry about anything!