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Added the ability to search/filter pages by title or url on the page listing screen. Very needed since a few sites that I’m tracking have hundreds of pages and there is definitely a need to pull up the exact page I need.
Right up there with thoughts of things I shouldn’t pursue; I would love to create a web directory. I know, totally an early 2000’s thought, but perhaps there is a place for them still. I just want to discover good content on smaller websites, and I would love to make it easier for those who maintain websites to just have their content discovered without having to post in on the socials and all of that. And to have it be free of upvotes and downvotes, etc… Just a good topical list of pages sorted and organized for easy exploring, ranked by publish date and relevance, and perhaps a quality score.
I wonder how much of our current issues as a society are tied to the terrible platforms we have for online discussion. I don’t think online discussion is necessarily a problem, it’s just the mechanisms that are in place — moderation, upvoting, downvoting, etc… Could we solve some of our problems if the tools we have for online discussion were designed better?
Started logging the total download size of pages while scanning (the html, images, css, and other assets). I’m working on updates to a page, and it would be interesting to see how the overall data that has to be downloaded shrinks as I improve things.
I feel like everyone should have a favorite bird.
I really want vector graphic design software to function more like CAD software. I just want to remove a line segment between two other intersecting lines. It of course can be done in Affinity Designer, but it’s more complicated than it needs to be. It could be trivial, like it is CAD, just select the two cutting lines, then cut click on the segment to remove — easy. Same thing with snapping to tangents on circles, fillets, etc…
It doesn’t happen often, but I do think it’s possible to overdo it with imagery on a webpage.
I may not be making as big of a positive impact on the world as I’d like, but some of my clients are. I’ll take some satisfaction in knowing that I’m helping them do so.
Heard a Swainson’s Thrush this morning and it brought an immediate smile to my face. Why I love this bird
It’s always nice when you finish that thing that you’ve been thinking about doing for several years. But I don’t know how I feel about it taking me only 90 minutes to fully implement. I should have worked it into my schedule long ago.
It can be a bit of a difficult existence when you can see the possibilities in nearly everything.
I love the sound of rain falling outside while I sip my coffee and design various things from the comfort of my office.
Icons on a website are tricky. They can add interest, life, and professionalism. But they can very easily just make a website look amateurish.
People seem to get defensive when you suggest that they may just be an LLM.
I really love the process of continually refining websites. Changing and tweaking small things here and there, seeing the improvement from update to update.
Added functionality for removing text that the visitor doesn’t want to be printed. Just click on text block to remove it. The text will appear faded. To undo, just click on the text block again.
I wonder if I could start using AI to become a better conversationalist. May have to look into that. Seems like it could be beneficial for others as well.
I always drift back to creating a website that pulls good, interesting articles that are ideally from smaller, less known websites. People’s personal blogs and such. Organized by topic. In a way, I think of it more as the internet of old, where independent writers and people creating things can create stuff, and the website will just let others more easily find their content, without the creator having to post it on various social media platforms.
It seems that many errantly think that since we are all entitled to our own opinions, that all opinions are equally valid.
AI is getting pretty interesting. I took a long drive the other day and was thinking that it would be great to have an AI that I could talk to about random things. Like Philosophy. I don’t have anyone that I can talk about deep things with in real life, but AI could probably fill that role.
I’ve started just roaming around the neighborhood with my coffee mug in hand. Don’t know why I didn’t do this sooner.
Just some minor formatting and cleanup to the interface.
Things Everyone Should Know: Supply and demand and how it affects pricing, How US taxes work (marginal tax rates), several of the most common formal logical fallacies, causation vs correlation
Some days my head just swirls with ambition. Thoughts, ideas, big pictures and minute details.
Sometimes a nice font is enough.