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April 26th, 1100 hours
Today I launched my Neocities website! I'm excited about it. I think it looks pretty good for someone with essentially zero coding experience, including frontend. I'm mostly writing this jentry to fill out space on this page so it looks a bit better tbh lmao. I don't really know how to write journal entries that well? I've never been a "diary taker" kind of girl. I'll do my best to try structure this into more longform commentary in the long run, but for now I think it's just going to be kind of rambley. Idk, maybe that's more in the spirit of this like, less-polished internet anyways? I can just kind of talk I guess. I'm pretty good at that lol.
For this project, I had to learn a LOT of skills I didn't have before... I'd say I know a decent bit about working my way around a computer, but I didn't know some basic things like "how to set up a github repo properly." I did end up blazing thru boot.dev's python and linux basic courses (which, I'm obviously not being sponsored lol but you should give that curriculum a try if you've been interested in learning backend and have ADHD like I do -- it's gameified in a way I think is fun. Speaking of which, I gotta do my dailies! lmao.) and those were pretty satisfying! I also worked through the most of the Odin Project's frontend introduction... enough to be dangerous, I'd say! lol.
On another note, I think that my fiancée (!!!) was absolutely correct and that being on tumblr was really bad for me and encouraged a lot of bad, self-destructive behaviors for me. I'm going to try have a more measured relationship to my internet presence from now on (famous last words!) I hope that this neocities website and making other websites and webapps as my way of interacting with the internet will be productive towards that end goal.
Ok, I'd say that's probably good enough for a starting journal entry. Let's go with that. Ciao!
Oh! Also I'm considering trying to pick back up learning mandarin. We'll see how that goes!