dev journal

I'm literally freaking crashing out over date formatting. This is so awesome...

So... today I chanced upon this mysterious very awesome template!! https://strawberrystarter.neocities.org/

It's really cool! I want to experiment with lots of different template and website making tools! I think that the medium and design of something is really important for the type of projects that you want to make, so I wanna try different stuff and learn stuff and have a good time :3

I'm having so much fun learning new things and even though it's a big of a struggle sometimes, it's really rewarding! Though I do need to stretch a bit more since I'm at my computer a lot...

Oh yeah! About the date formatting thing. I was confused because... well it seems like the date format is really important for the RSS feed, of which itself, I have no idea how it works... But I think it would be good to learn eventually? But I wasn't sure whether it wanted it like month-day-year or something else and it was confusing me a bunch and giving me weird errors (it matters that the month and the day are two digits each! Even if it is just like 1, you have you write is like 01)... It's funny because I think other people were probably having issues too since it's in the FAQs lol... Good place to look for troubleshooting.

I'm reminded of this presentation that I listened to in college about programming. Programming is like... communication between you and the computer. It's called a programming language for a reason, you need to learn a completely new way of thinking and expressing what you want to express in order to get your meanings across. I'm very interested in the nature of meaning and semantics, but of course, communication can be frustrating at times, especially when one requires as much precision as a computer... Computers aren't great conversation partners, are they?

I'm thinking again about knowledge and memory... It seems like things I just did, I forget how I fixed them and I delete the tabs and then the knowledge is gone. I'm thinking I should keep a record of all the bugs that I fix and what helped when I was struggling with this or that. It's frustrating to encounter the same error and then realize that you've encountered it before, fixed it, but now you can't remember what you did! Memory is finicky like that.

Anyways, I'll try to be a bit more careful next time and leave behind more documentation for the sake of my future self :3

If you're curious... I wanted to find a blogging system that worked with neocities and also had tags, and I found this reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/neocities/comments/171tpr2/anyone_found_a_way_to_integrate_tags_into_their/. Someone commented that they use this: https://codeberg.org/cdvr/Zonelots. And the creator of that was like, actually there's issues with this, use this instead! https://bagenzo.itch.io/strawberry-starter And that is how I found strawberry starter :3

So cool, its on itch.io and it recommended me some other random things...