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- Thu Apr 20, 2023 9:31 pm
- Forum: ☕ Internet Café ☕
- Topic: Online Hoarding
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1685
Re: Online Hoarding
One thing i've experienced over and over both in the digital world and in physical space, is this thing where i'm keeping things around that are nice, interesting, and maybe even expensive, that i do have genuine interest in - if not now then definitely later. Or so i think, because once something h...
- Wed Apr 12, 2023 9:42 am
- Forum: 🌼 The Garden 🌼
- Topic: Last post on this forum (forum game)
- Replies: 56
- Views: 7187
Re: Last post on this forum (forum game)
it is my cat
- Tue Apr 11, 2023 11:01 am
- Forum: 💿 The Yesterweb 💿
- Topic: The forum is shutting down
- Replies: 135
- Views: 82605
Re: The forum is shutting down
Sorry for late response. I've lingered in the thread the past few days and appreciate your posts. There is much for me to learn and think about here, even if it'll have to be practiced in some context. it's a heavy subject too. thank you for taking the time! I'm sorry, it is unfair to you. we were n...
- Thu Apr 06, 2023 10:58 am
- Forum: 💿 The Yesterweb 💿
- Topic: The forum is shutting down
- Replies: 135
- Views: 82605
Re: The forum is shutting down
Sad to see things end, but i get it. I found the yesterweb fairly late in its lifecycle, missed most of the zines, never visited the discord. It's been a bit vague, and i always had this nagging sense that i'm not exactly doing what's expected of me, like i never grasped the actual intent of the pla...
- Mon Apr 03, 2023 9:18 pm
- Forum: 💿 The Yesterweb 💿
- Topic: The webring is shutting down
- Replies: 33
- Views: 14485
Re: The webring is shutting down
I do appreciate your response and understand what you are saying. That is why I said that I am not being rude or mean, just talking about how I feel. Again, I understand what you are saying, but in some ways I disagree. If a person were to ask a question in day-to-day life, you wouldn't tell them t...
- Mon Apr 03, 2023 8:38 pm
- Forum: 🌼 The Garden 🌼
- Topic: Laptop (or other item) Sticker Bombs
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1770
Re: Laptop (or other item) Sticker Bombs
Here it goes mine! Oh! I never thought of stickers of maps. That's very interesting actually. And above is a subway line or similar? Without any labels it becomes like a secret symbol, if you know it you know it. My town is too small for anything but bus lines, and there's no official map of them. ...
- Mon Apr 03, 2023 8:28 pm
- Forum: 💿 The Yesterweb 💿
- Topic: The webring is shutting down
- Replies: 33
- Views: 14485
Re: The webring is shutting down
So if someone did want to create a new webring (or multiple), can they advertise them here so users can migrate? The anti-personal-ad nature of this forum makes it seem like that is not allowed. Feels rather damaging to the community... To this i'll make what i think is a very stereotypical "f...
- Sun Apr 02, 2023 8:09 pm
- Forum: ☕ Internet Café ☕
- Topic: What kind of stuff have you been using ChatGPT and other AI bots for?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1700
Re: What kind of stuff have you been using ChatGPT and other AI bots for?
A lot of my colleagues use it... i don't know exactly why, but it irks me a little. You're letting the probability machine write the configuration for your production environment? On the other hand, i did ask it about some problem i had and while not giving me a finished solution, it informed me tha...
- Wed Mar 29, 2023 8:49 pm
- Forum: 🌼 The Garden 🌼
- Topic: Laptop (or other item) Sticker Bombs
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1770
- Wed Mar 29, 2023 8:38 pm
- Forum: 🏛️ The Gazebo 🏛️
- Topic: Art Page Thread!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1618
Re: Art Page Thread!
Yup! Granted I'm sure there's a less laborious way of handling it all, but I like the idea of sticking to using static code as much as possible, as well as keeping the DIY spirit of the whole thing. And thank you! I might actually drop the per-season palette thing for just this year since my CSS ha...
- Mon Mar 27, 2023 9:45 pm
- Forum: 🏛️ The Gazebo 🏛️
- Topic: Art Page Thread!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1618
Re: Art Page Thread!
@sixeyes : First, I love your notebook gallery. Second, for note/sketchbooks: I was going to recommend Itoya ProFolio Oasis notebooks--they take to most inks well, durable, and easily fit in a pocket--but it seems like they only offer it in dotted and lined OTL. However! Fabriano's EcoQua is a more...
- Mon Mar 27, 2023 9:29 am
- Forum: 💽 Computer Lab 💽
- Topic: Issues with motivation
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1421
Re: Issues with motivation
Yes! Reiterating others here.. but yeah, for me, this is just the cycle of things. A couple of months into a project i realize that i'm not as interested anymore. That's fine! I'll focus on other things for a while, and eventually i'll come back around with fresh eyes. (Being too extreme about this ...
- Mon Mar 20, 2023 3:48 pm
- Forum: 💽 Computer Lab 💽
- Topic: how to help build a healthier internet?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1429
Re: how to help build a healthier internet?
Here in sweden, some people just started a "förening" - don't know the english word, i wanna say co-op, wikipedia gives me "volunatry association". As in a legal entity with members, a board, by-laws, secretary etc etc. Anyway one of those, for running instances of (open-source) ...
- Sun Mar 12, 2023 12:22 pm
- Forum: 💿 The Yesterweb 💿
- Topic: What happened to the webring?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2985
Re: What happened to the webring?
[snip] Damn that's really good! I'd be tempted to get a VPS for that price, but I have no idea what I'd even do with it. Like I love the idea of paying for a space that is entirely your own to do what you want with, but at the same time, Neocities does everything I need it to right now. Maybe make ...
- Sun Mar 12, 2023 12:01 pm
- Forum: 🏛️ The Gazebo 🏛️
- Topic: Art Page Thread!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1618
Re: Art Page Thread!
i'll bite on this actually. i've been trying to spread my art throughout the webpage, not to consolidate it in a single place. (ive said this before but i'm fighting hard not to create a portfolio-style thing). but for my notebook scans, it's just the natural way to present them i think. idk. so.. t...
- Fri Mar 10, 2023 10:34 am
- Forum: 💽 Computer Lab 💽
- Topic: DIY: Browser based services
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1152
Re: DIY: Browser based services
Entirely out of laziness, i know there are offline tools:
- base64 encode/decode
- prettify/auto-indent json
- get the current unix timestamp
- download youtube videos
- Thu Mar 09, 2023 5:53 pm
- Forum: ☕ Internet Café ☕
- Topic: The Best Alternative Search Engines
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4210
Re: The Best Alternative Search Engines
That being said, I'm also a bit old school and have quite a bookmark collection, so the 200 searches/month might be doable for me. I imagine searching without ad revenue is quite expensive, but I think a larger part of the problem is that so many people have gotten into the habit of simply searchin...
- Thu Mar 09, 2023 2:49 pm
- Forum: 🌼 The Garden 🌼
- Topic: Looking for inspiration... What is your favorite non digital hobby?
- Replies: 43
- Views: 4171
Re: Looking for inspiration... What is your favorite non digital hobby?
I have been doing film photography for quite some time now! It's the most wonderful hobby to make you apreciate and look for beautiful spots. Cameras are so incredibly cheap - the film and processing isn't - but it's the most rewarding hobby to me. The mystery of not having a preview, anticipating ...
- Thu Mar 09, 2023 8:09 am
- Forum: ☕ Internet Café ☕
- Topic: The Best Alternative Search Engines
- Replies: 32
- Views: 4210
Re: The Best Alternative Search Engines
Kagi introduced new pricing today. Unlimited searches became a bit more expensive (2.5x) but there are now cheaper plans if you can get by with a set number of searches. (I never paid for it even at 10$/mo - the trial gives 50 searches a month. Both months i tried, i ate those within two days. They ...
- Wed Mar 01, 2023 8:37 pm
- Forum: 💽 Computer Lab 💽
- Topic: Dynamic Small ("smol") Web
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2410
email forms
this is probably not "dynamic" per se.... i've been thinking i want a comment section or similar on some pages, but it seems i don't have the time to implement some backend for this, plus i'm wary of auto-publishing user comments. then it struck me, what about having one of those HTML form...
- Wed Feb 22, 2023 7:52 am
- Forum: ☕ Internet Café ☕
- Topic: The right-wing side of web revival
- Replies: 38
- Views: 4334
Re: The right-wing side of web revival
The reason they are against "consoom" is more that it is a waste of time and negatively affects the way you think. For example, if I watch Youtube, I have less time to work on my hobbies or contribute to my local community. It may also have negative effects on my brain if I become addicte...
- Tue Feb 21, 2023 9:11 am
- Forum: 💿 The Yesterweb 💿
- Topic: The Subject field
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1827
Re: The Subject field
Might be modeled on emails? (Or am i having a "guy who only ever used email" moment)
- Tue Feb 21, 2023 8:41 am
- Forum: ☕ Internet Café ☕
- Topic: Meta testing new subscription service for verified accounts on Facebook and Instagram
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1016
Re: Meta testing new subscription service for verified accounts on Facebook and Instagram
This might not be a reaction to twitter blue, but feels like it... Recurring pattern, like trying to predict the bitcoin price, i'm like "whoa this is objectively very bad, surely a sign of the end LOL" and then three other actors implement the same thing and the price skyrockets and i'm s...
- Mon Feb 20, 2023 10:24 am
- Forum: ☕ Internet Café ☕
- Topic: Quick questions that don't need a dedicated thread
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2489
Re: Quick questions that don't need a dedicated thread
Is it possible to have a certain html file being displayed on other html files without the use of scripts or PHP? A pure HTML/CSS solution? I'm specifically thinking of navigation, I'd like my nav to be one editable file instead of having to copy-paste the tag contents to every other page when I ma...
- Mon Feb 13, 2023 5:23 pm
- Forum: 💿 The Yesterweb 💿
- Topic: The Subject field
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1827
Re: Each post has its own subject field.
If no one customizes the subject of their replies and instead allows them to auto-fill with the thread's subject, then the headers as viewed from a thread's page become superfluous clutter and arguably needn't exist. So I wanted to point that out lest repliers were unthinkingly ignoring the field w...
- Mon Feb 13, 2023 9:53 am
- Forum: 💿 The Yesterweb 💿
- Topic: The Subject field
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1827
Re: The Subject field
I think this is just how phpBB does things. Seen it on other forums as well, especially confusing when threads are merged together. I mean the column is called "last post", so that's not the thread title, it's the last post subject. Checks out, but very confusing yeah, because i absolutely...
- Fri Feb 10, 2023 8:08 pm
- Forum: 🌼 The Garden 🌼
- Topic: Any tapeheads here?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 4800
Re: Any tapeheads here?
Okay, turns out the wow and flutter is even on the TEAC. I’m going to contact them about that, I hope that isn’t just a quirk to this model, especially considering how much I paid for it… Could it be an issue with the tape? Old, thin, sunbaked, etc... (like, cassettes with lengths > 90 minutes will...
- Fri Feb 10, 2023 10:59 am
- Forum: 💽 Computer Lab 💽
- Topic: Webweaving workflows
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1092
Re: Webweaving workflows
I used to use FTP and later SSH. When i used linux there was some tool to mount a remote SSH server as a local filesystem, and i would just edit those files directly. Very neat, but it would mean there wasnt a local copy. I would sometimes also just SSH in and edit the files directly in vim.. (on my...
- Fri Feb 10, 2023 10:50 am
- Forum: 🌼 The Garden 🌼
- Topic: Any tapeheads here?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 4800
Re: Any tapeheads here?
I've heard the description "wow and flutter" a lot, sounds a bit like your waves and stutter, hehe. IIRC it could be anything in the mechanics, some of the handhelds are full of grime and stuff, that has an impact. I don't know if you're supposed to oil these things? I clean mine with iso...
- Wed Feb 08, 2023 7:05 pm
- Forum: 🌼 The Garden 🌼
- Topic: Any tapeheads here?
- Replies: 46
- Views: 4800
Re: Any tapeheads here?
I've heard the description "wow and flutter" a lot, sounds a bit like your waves and stutter, hehe. IIRC it could be anything in the mechanics, some of the handhelds are full of grime and stuff, that has an impact. I don't know if you're supposed to oil these things? I clean mine with isop...
- Mon Feb 06, 2023 9:16 am
- Forum: ☕ Internet Café ☕
- Topic: should one accept A.I in some form right now?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2861
Re: should one accept A.I in some form right now?
Another discussion about these things, that was kind of drowned out by these shiny image/text-generators, is around the suddenly widespread ability to do blackbox pattern matching. Huge datasets can be condensed into relatively small programs that'll classify your stuff for you, without anyone knowi...
- Sat Feb 04, 2023 6:55 pm
- Forum: 💽 Computer Lab 💽
- Topic: Latest "New Thing" You've Added to Your Site?
- Replies: 42
- Views: 4605
Re: Latest "New Thing" You've Added to Your Site?
Added a few 88x31 buttons . Its a fun challenge to make these but im all out of ideas currently...
(also a few scanned notebooks)
(also a few scanned notebooks)
- Sat Feb 04, 2023 6:16 pm
- Forum: 🌼 The Garden 🌼
- Topic: what loot do you drop
- Replies: 17
- Views: 1980
Re: what loot do you drop
i think i'd drop pens... try to always have a couple on me. some in the jacket always and then one or two in my pant pockets too. ideally a pencil, an ink pen, and a couple of markers.
a new pen is my go-to treat... but they usually dry out rather than get used up.
a new pen is my go-to treat... but they usually dry out rather than get used up.
- Fri Feb 03, 2023 8:27 pm
- Forum: 🏛️ The Gazebo 🏛️
- Topic: Furcadia Meetups?!
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1578
Re: Furcadia Meetups?!
Yeah i'll be one more voice in the choir! Didn't try it before - but i might like to. It seems nice....
- Tue Jan 31, 2023 5:08 pm
- Forum: 💽 Computer Lab 💽
- Topic: need help im going insane!!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1521
Re: need help im going insane!!
Seems to be the timeout thing clearTimeout(timeoutId); timeoutId = setTimeout(() => { successMessage.innerHTML = ""; }, 200); "timeoutId" is not defined at this point. so the code runs that far but no further - doesn't get to form.submit(). if i removed the code in the snippet ab...
- Tue Jan 31, 2023 8:58 am
- Forum: 💽 Computer Lab 💽
- Topic: Dynamic Small ("smol") Web
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2410
Re: Dynamic Small ("smol") Web
Is anyone around here interested in making handcrafted dynamic backends? Have any of you experimented with server-side programming on your webpages? What kinds of things would you like to build? Do you have anything you'd like to show off? I used to do this a lot before (out of a mix of curiosity, ...
- Mon Jan 30, 2023 7:52 pm
- Forum: 🌼 The Garden 🌼
- Topic: Desk setup posting!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1410
Re: Desk setup posting!
i'll bite!
tbh i'm just sitting in the couch 80% of the time. desk is pretty neglected (not even assembled correctly), haven't felt too great since before i moved here tbh. come spring i'm sure it'll get used more! ( => even messier )
tbh i'm just sitting in the couch 80% of the time. desk is pretty neglected (not even assembled correctly), haven't felt too great since before i moved here tbh. come spring i'm sure it'll get used more! ( => even messier )
- Sun Jan 29, 2023 3:44 pm
- Forum: ☕ Internet Café ☕
- Topic: Weekly Discussion - What Does Our History Say About Our Future?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1231
Re: Weekly Discussion - What Does Our History Say About Our Future?
Us here on this forums are probably alike those old gardeners that had their spaces rendered obsolete by Big Garden Corp. Or those little bookstores closing shop after amazon offered much more at much less cost. Yeah! What was once made also out of necessity, is now made just for the sake of making...
- Sun Jan 29, 2023 12:02 pm
- Forum: 🌼 The Garden 🌼
- Topic: Hyper-specific things you like in music
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2504
Re: Hyper-specific things you like in music
i must say lately it's when, without prior warning, the horn section kicks in ... cake's friend is a four letter word (1:05) mitski's why didn't you stop me (1:55) (although you should probably listen to the entire song for the point to really come across hehe) for some reason my brain goes !!! when...
- Fri Jan 27, 2023 9:08 pm
- Forum: 🌼 The Garden 🌼
- Topic: Books, libraries, reading!
- Replies: 22
- Views: 2376
Re: Books, libraries, reading!
i've been pushing through crime and punishment the past 2 years, mostly. i like it, it's just dense . other books i've been reading alongside that atm are to the lighthouse, moby-dick, and the last unicorn! i really loved annihilation's movie so comparing it to the book was pretty fun. unfortunatel...
- Fri Jan 27, 2023 8:57 pm
- Forum: 🌼 The Garden 🌼
- Topic: Share your playlists...!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1613
Share your playlists...!
Did you make a playlist that you're proud of? Selected works from some artist collective, tunes that fit the same mood, themed around an OC, or something else? As long as there's some (more or less) coherent thought behind it, i wanna hear! Share your vibes! I know this might be antithetical to the ...
- Fri Jan 27, 2023 8:28 pm
- Forum: 🌼 The Garden 🌼
- Topic: What do you like to do outside?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 2774
Re: What do you like to do outside?
oooh i can't believe i forgot to mention this (or well, i can, it's very cold here ATM) but stargazing!! if you're a bit nocturnal this is great. there's so much stuff up there, and once you start to know a few constellations you can kind of feel your way around the sky in a different way. it helps ...
- Fri Jan 27, 2023 12:13 pm
- Forum: 💽 Computer Lab 💽
- Topic: webgarden HTML ??
- Replies: 3
- Views: 930
Re: webgarden HTML ??
oh, are people still doing these? they seem fun but i was worried i was late to the party (what with missmoss' greenhouse having a few 403's and her last post on there being from early 2022)
- Fri Jan 27, 2023 12:07 pm
- Forum: ☕ Internet Café ☕
- Topic: Digital Gardens
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1078
Re: Digital Gardens
Yes! I feel like the digital gardening (methodology) would perhaps also allow for moving pages around as their identity changes. Which'll increase coherence, but probably confuse returning visitors. It's interesting what you say about exploration. I've noticed that sites that feel good to browse aro...
- Fri Jan 27, 2023 8:45 am
- Forum: 🌼 The Garden 🌼
- Topic: Musician/band/Artist ABC (Forum Game)
- Replies: 159
- Views: 13595
- Wed Jan 25, 2023 7:01 pm
- Forum: ☕ Internet Café ☕
- Topic: Digital Gardens
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1078
Re: Digital Gardens
I find the organizational part of this to be quite hard... I made a thread here a while ago, lamenting about how hard it was to chose a few "topmost" categories for my website, to sort everything else under. Maya.land linked that Hypertext Gardens essay, which i must say resonated a lot, b...
- Wed Jan 25, 2023 3:43 pm
- Forum: 💽 Computer Lab 💽
- Topic: General QTDOT Coding Help thread
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1023
Re: General QTDOT Coding Help thread
For some reason, when I add my tooltip code, the image...vanishes? I'm using my friend's character Marnie for this example since she's the first one there. Not sure how the tooltip code is supposed to work. Is there some javascript component to it, or is it meant to be all CSS? In any case, the rea...
- Wed Jan 25, 2023 9:36 am
- Forum: 💽 Computer Lab 💽
- Topic: General QTDOT Coding Help thread
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1023
Re: General QTDOT Coding Help thread
For some reason, when I add my tooltip code, the image...vanishes? I'm using my friend's character Marnie for this example since she's the first one there. Not sure how the tooltip code is supposed to work. Is there some javascript component to it, or is it meant to be all CSS? In any case, the rea...
- Tue Jan 24, 2023 7:58 am
- Forum: 🏛️ The Gazebo 🏛️
- Topic: Webrings!
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2346
Re: Webrings!
What do people think about widget placement? For the two i'm in, i put them on the index page in order to, like, enter the whole thing in the webring. I also prefer it to be kind of visible to encourage exploring. I definitely think webrings fit on the index most, just so that if you wanna continue...
- Mon Jan 23, 2023 9:39 pm
- Forum: 🏛️ The Gazebo 🏛️
- Topic: Introductions!
- Replies: 214
- Views: 31204
Re: Introductions!
386 members!