🍓 Hi there! You can call me Ettie. I'm still deciding how much I want to tell you about myself. The tools I have used to build this blog can be found he...
Today I went to get some water from the sink. We’re in a heat wave, and the water ran warm for a couple seconds before going cool. As I stood there, I was struck by the realization that this is absolutely unthinkable for the vast vast majority of human history (and I’m sure to millions of people right now). Clean, safe water whenever I want it??? Right there in my house????? And it’s even COLD????…
A few months ago I remarked to my partner that I keep encountering people who are traveling to Japan. I mentioned I’d love to do this someday. He mentioned that the traveling he has done was much more fun when he went to places where he knew the language. This also happened to be a time where I had sustained a habit of avoiding The Scrolling Things for long enough that I found myself with some…
In my last post, I talked about getting stuck trying to find a domain. Yesterday, I encountered an important fork in the road I am calling The Face Test. This requires a little context. Using a custom domain is not new to me. I come from a proud lineage of nerds, and I’ve had my own domain as long as I’ve had an email. It was bought a maintained for me by my dad, and after I established myself as…
For the past couple weeks, I’ve been trying to think of a fun domain name. I have an uncommon last name so I have lastname.tld, but I also want something just fun. Some of the new TLDs (top level domains, if you’re unfamiliar) are pretty sparsely populated, so you can get a fun snappy one with relative ease. Problem is, my mind has gone blank. I get stuck here a lot. I find myself before some…
First blog post! I have been enjoying the buzzing about of folks participating in the "indie web revival", especially on neocities. I realized that the only thing I'm really fired up about sharing for myself is a blog, and while you can certainly do that on neocities, it doesn't seem like that's it's strong suit. I've begun to be comfortable learning new things, but I like how this blog is already…