Kimberly Hirsh

Finished reading: Future Tense: Why Anxiety Is Good for You (Even Though It Feels Bad) by Tracy Dennis-Tiwary 📚

A helpful framing of normal, baseline anxiety as a source of information that can spur us to creativity and action.

November is not my favorite month.

🔖 Read The enshittification of academic social media (The Thesis Whisperer).

Set up the Vapor1994 theme with custom colors on my website until I create a custom theme. A few font-size and color tweaks to make still but mostly I’m very happy with it.

🔖 Read Intro to the Web Revival #1: What is the Web Revival?.

Fun to read about all the IndieWeb’s neighbors!

Finished reading: The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish 📚

A 17th Century bit of philosophical fantastical adventure.

📚💬 “I endeavour to be as singular as I can.” Margaret Cavendish, The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World

Hey Micro.bloggers and other interested parties, do you have favorite resources that helped you learn how to create a Hugo theme?

🔖 Read Two Wins for Public Libraries This Week at the Polls by Kelly Jensen (Literary Activism).

Good things are happening but we need to remain vigilant. The people trying to take books out of libraries and take control away from library professionals are immensely well-funded.

🔖 Read:

• What happened to blogging for the hell of it?
• On mobile phones, the small web, and able-bodied privilege
• Follow-up to the phone post & an easy HTML upgrade!

Thanks @gr36 for directing my attention to Whiona!