Changelog for the Website

Here’s a raw dump of the list i’ve been using for website things. At some point I’m gonna rebuild the machine I’m using, rebuild the website backend from scratch, and relaunch. But like a lot of my recent projects, I’m just kinda doing it and seeing what happens for now. So I’m not being too precious about posting and generating content for the site.

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• categories fixed done, list / adjust
• tags fixed and implemented done, list
• about page properly implemented done
• practice posts first done

• image uploads and usage in banners, header, footer

• google analytics done
• search done

• archive organization/implementation - liquid done

• basics of design components and implementation w/ jekyll and mmistakes theme

implemented, needs study

new needs 4/19/2025

• art posts

• art portfolio/archive setup/bugfixing

• change colors/UI elements/fonts around if needed

• change visual assets around if needed

• upload things like header images, teaser, background images

• implement things like content blocking/backgrounds

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I’m also listing the categories I use here, adding more as they’re implemented:

Journal Website About

And here are the tags I use:

personal website work journal art list portfolio blog Obsidian GitHub

Once I make some more regular posts, I will come through and clean up the tags and categories a little, and set up a formal way of listing them on individual posts.

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Ideally I want the site to feature my art heavily. I have some pattern ideas I want to work on over the next few weeks for backgrounds and elements, some teaser images I can crop and import, and some other random assets and fonts to tweak until I like the way things look.

If you’re reading this and you have ideas or you want to see something specific come to the site, send me an email or hit me up on bluesky! This is a community project, and I’m hoping I can use this space to shout out people that contribute, people in the arts and queer communities doing good work, and movements/messsages that need more voices repeating them!

Part of the process I’m working on implementing both here and in my art: Just posting. Just making things. Just doing the work regardless of how many people see it or how much money it makes me today. It might seem counterintuitive, but I’m trying my best to spend as little time as possible working on projects like this post, things that I’m producing as a byproduct of existing and thinking but which don’t rise to the level of hyperfocus, dedicating editing and proofreading resources, etc. I have a substantial tendency to overwork projects and get caught up in small details that don’t ultimately contribute an equivalent amount to the feeling I have at the end of the project. In that regard, this article only took me like 20 minutes to put together, basically all of which was typing. However, as a way to also illustrate the value of small contributions like this one, the lists I made and the ideas I’m building this writing off of were work that I put in before. Recording that work and keeping it available, building on it and synthesizing information into something I can put on a page, those are all steps in the creative process that need to be taken in order to reach an end result. This page is a resource that I plan to use extensively when I’m writing articles and making future plans for changing the site and the way I do things. The net work that went into this page is hours and hours of background work, and the future value of taking half an hour to write it down could potentially be hours and hours more.

This is your reminder to start that project you’re thinking about. Just write down a draft or draw a sketch. Do it!

-Andy