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I’m packing my bags and leaving Neocities. Neocities has been a great free host, but I want my own domain and have the sort of anal-retentive need to run my webserver. It’s either subscribe to Neocities-pro and learn how to let go of this false illusion of control, or learn how to use Caddy on some KVM somewhere and stay in denial of my dependence on others. To me, the choice is obvious. I’ll make a big post when I have a new address.

Who am I?

I’m outta here! Still going my Neotoma, since it was a $1 domain name lol.

Where am I going?

neotoma.site! If you liked my content here, check it out over there!

Setup a little KVM to host the stuff. If you are interested in details on how to do this, let me know and I’ll revise my notes a bit and publish them! Maybe also show you how Hugo goes to!

What do I use to update my RSS Feed?

This link! If you followed the link here, you’ll find that this new one has some pretty cool improvements: the bookmarks are batched into groups of 10 now, and my blog posts are full text!

Are you going to change your stupid fucking background to something that doesn’t hurt my eyes?

Wow okay, I mean fair. Usually when I need to review something I posted it’s just in the files, but recently I looked something up and realized the coloring is an unfortunate choice for people with read with their eyes. Then when I moved to this new site, I moved the home page first as a test, and the naked HTML was so much more usable and interesting! A little disheartening, to be sure.

So maybe I’ll grow up a bit and start using a readable (and accessible) style sheet. I dislike the way Bootstrap and Tailwind look, but I do like some of the smaller and minimal libraries.

Or maybe I’ll make it look even fucking worse on purpose. Maybe I’ll make it so affronting you have to use a feed reader or w3m or risk doing permanent damage to your sense of taste.

Welcome!

Neotoma, or pack rats, live in nests called middens. The same midden may remain inhabited for longer than humans have lived in cities, providing us with a rich record of an ecosystem. This record is, often enough, literal shit. But to those who are, as they say, in the know, the shit reveals secrets. We refer to this today as the Good Shit.

I use this website to catalog Good Shit.

Bookmarks is my diverse catalog of links I’d like you to check out. It is very big, so you might have an easier time finding what you are looking for by looking through All Sorts of Things, which lists more specific formats each link follows, or My Collections for my manually curated list of links. Fun Things are for the silly of you. If you are chronically serious, please do not click it.

Directories will link you to other websites that track a long list of links. In ‘blog’, I write whatever I want. I do not think it is particularly good, but the price you pay for browsing my personal website is making contact with my personality.

What’s new?

Turns out I’ve been using unordered list tags all wrong! If you’ve looked around the blog and thought, “this is a charming site, but how am I to feel at home without my dear bullet points??” Then worry not! Like a rat infestation, those little droppings now litter all of the pages!

I’m also packing my bags and leave Neocities soon. Neocities has been a great free host, but I want my own domain and have the sort of anal-retentive need to run my webserver. It’s either subscribe to Neocities-pro and learn how to let go of this false illusion of control, or learn how to use Caddy on some KVM somewhere and stay in denial of my dependence on others. To me, the choice is obvious. I’ll make a big post when I have a new address.

Lastly, I spent some time getting the Hugo generator to write better RSS items. I’m excited to show you, but don’t see a point yet until I’ve moved servers. No need to break your RSS feed twice!

Word to the wise

My critics have been chatty this year. They have already pointed out my stylesheet is amateurish, the quality of my posts do not make up for my inconsistent schedule, and any attempt to find bookmarks worth reading is met by a wholly uncharming amount of jank. To them I offer the words of Roger L’Estrange:

…[Websites] and dishes have this common fate; there was never any one of either of them that pleased all palates…[T]hough I deliver up these [webpages] to the [world-wide-web]1, I invite no man to the reading of them; and whosoever reads, and repents, it is his own fault. To conclude, as I made this composition principally for myself, so it agrees exceedingly well with my constitution ; and yet, if any man has a mind to take part with me, he has free leave and welcome. But let him carry this consideration along with him — that he is a very unmannerly guest, that presses upon another body’s table, and then quarrels with his dinner.

  1. Original: books, papers and press, which I believe were misspellings unfortunately common in his era. ↩︎

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