▼ April 25, 2024

A note to myself

After wrestling with HTML, CSS and JS for a day, I'm finally satisfied enough to write something here. For my first post, I'd like to talk about the site, why I created it and what I plan to do with it. Also this will be some sort of reminder to myself that I can come back to whenever I get too hyperfocused on presenting things perfectly. Yes, I'm a recovering perfectionist ;_;

I have always wanted to make my own blog as something like a personal space in the internet, even though I am analog person. These days when you want to share something about your hobby, or just want to share in general, you'd open a Youtube channel. But I'm a writer, not a speaker lol Besides, I'm a old person in terms of internet age. Back in my day, people wrote about their hobbies. So blogs seemed like the medium suited for me. But I didn't want to host my blog on big platforms like Wordpress or Tumblr, like literally the day after I opened a WP account, I read about how they're going to feed your data to AI. Fuck no LOL I closed it immediately dw

Soon after, I watched a video about making your own website by lrnjulie and it felt like a sign from the internet algorithm (okay I'm an algorithm hater first, human being second but sometimes you can make it work for yourself). It was a very insightful watch and I decided that I'll make not just a blog, but a self-indulgent personal website. And that's where I found neocities and it has been pretty fun so far ☺ I love that I can literally make anything from scratch and not be restricted by shitty free templates. And yes I still refuse to host a site in big platforms, I'd like all my data to myself, thank you v much.

I named my site after my favorite fountain pen ink, Sailor Shikiori Sakuramori, and it just happened to coincide with my fondness for cherry blossoms. I've always liked the thought of spring bringing new beginnings after the seasonal depression winter. I hope other fountain pen enjoyers would catch the small reference ^_^

As I said in my about page, I plan to make this a digital archive of my commonplace and catch-all notebooks. It's pretty barebones as of writing and I'm honestly getting impatient because it's so empty compared to other sites I've browsed last night but then again, those sites have been around for a long time so it will only be a matter of time before I fill this site up with things I like.

Some ideas I have been scheming: a personal archive of poetry, prose and quotes I have collected through my... Twitter bookmarks lmaoo, how I am learning Japanese, video game reviews, daily musings of my life of course, my web bookmarks and resources, and media log.

About my layout... it's pretty simple, isn't it? Compared to my analog notebook pages which is full of doodles and stickers, this site looks empty as heyl. But as much as I want to be maximalist in terms of the layout design (fun fact about me: the last thing I want my analog notebooks to be is to be minimalist), I decided to make things as simple as possible. I made this site with plans of updating it regularly and although I do know a normal amount of HTML and CSS, I'd prefer my code to be simple so it wouldn't be tedious on my part whenever I update stuff and I won't have to worry about breaking lines of codes when I add something.

Adding to my self-imposed website rules, I want this site to be with little to no javascript as possible. Seeing my page load in a couple of seconds just butters my croissant *chef's kiss* I guess the most I can put is two scripts at best.

I have been describing this site as a garden because it's something that will grow alongside my self and something I want to maintain for a long time (willing that my ADHD lets me lol) Let's say right now I just finished setting down the soil and the planting beds. And hopefully, in a year, it'll be a developed corner in the internet full of things I love.

Thank you for visiting and I hope to see you on the next entry ☺