A newfound discomfort with hypertext
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A newfound discomfort with hypertext
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#2https://blog.ayjay.org/the-homebound-symphony/
"My task, as I now conceive it, is not to engage in critique but rather to bear a small light and keep it burning for the next generation and maybe the generation after that. I want to find what is wise and good and beautiful and true and pass along to my readers as much of it as I can, in a form that will be accessible and comprehensible to them."
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#3I enjoy the website design - it's nice to see people keeping the Web 1.0 feeling alive, focusing on creativity, unafraid to use cool animations, etc.
I'm not sure I fully get the point of this entry though. It sounds like the author is becoming overly self critical and reflective. Just make what you want, share it, and have fun. That's what I've finally gotten around to doing on my personal websites (in my bio).
And what's supposed to be the point of the racial comments? They're not productive, only inflammatory. They make me feel unwelcome on the website for being a "pale male" as the author puts it; maybe that's the point. It's disheartening because a beauty of the web, as eloquently put in the Hacker's Manifesto, is that "We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias" on here. Yes, you have "as much right to speak on the topic as this fellow", as we all do. Let's try to all be in this together to make a better world instead of dividing ourselves.
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#4I enjoy the website design - it's nice to see people keeping the Web 1.0 feeling alive, focusing on creativity, unafraid to use cool animations, etc. I'm not sure I fully get the point of this entry though. It sounds like the author is becoming overly self critical and reflective. Just make what you want, share it, and have fun. That's what I've finally gotten around to doing on my personal websites (in my bio). And…
I think they were expressing their own insecurities surrounding being white and male and wanting to be creative despite maybe being "under-qualified". Having "yet another mediocre white man" perspective. In short, made anxious by racism and sexism targeted towards them.
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#5I enjoy the website design - it's nice to see people keeping the Web 1.0 feeling alive, focusing on creativity, unafraid to use cool animations, etc. I'm not sure I fully get the point of this entry though. It sounds like the author is becoming overly self critical and reflective. Just make what you want, share it, and have fun. That's what I've finally gotten around to doing on my personal websites (in my bio). And…
I think they were expressing their own insecurities surrounding being white and male and wanting to be creative despite maybe being "under-qualified". Having "yet another mediocre white man" perspective. In short, made anxious by racism and sexism targeted towards them.
The author's a woman: https://maya.land/who/
I love the website but I hate the trend of using "white males" as a punching bag.
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#6Huh, I don't think I really get what they are trying to put down? I dont see how their title and text connect. Some of their fears felt pretty relatable. I did find their summary of our relationship pretty funny - can't copy and past on their site but the bit about coming for correctly nested html tags for a fee of zero dollars.
Side note - that font felt uncomfortable to read, what kind of font is it? I'm super ignorant on this.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think they were expressing their own insecurities surrounding being white and male and wanting to be creative despite maybe being "under-qualified". Having "yet another mediocre white man" perspective. In short, made anxious by racism and sexism targeted towards them.
The author's a woman: https://maya.land/who/ I love the website but I hate the trend of using "white males" as a punching bag.
It’s a comment on the salient “voice” of the internet and a self-reflection on pressure to co-opt that voice. The fact is that early internet and large internet companies are dominated by the views and values of white American males.
As to whether this is a point worth discussion, that’s up to you. I wouldn’t think the worst of it though. I don’t think this post is more than a (perhaps flawed) commentary on a personal insecurity. The fact the white male voice matters to them is incidental
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#8I kind of don’t know what to make of this - imposter syndrome? They don’t feel they deserve to be heard, or to be creative, or something? They feel guilty for making stuff? They think it’s okay to present a certain level of content quality in one medium, but not another? Is this one of those “I am living with mental illness and this is how it makes me feel” type confessionals? Also what’s with the weird race stuff?
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#9having this web page open made firefox continuously use 50% of my (four-core) cpu and increase my power consumption dramatically
nothing visible on the page accounts for this
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