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RSS Feeds and Where to Find Them
I have been consistently using an RSS feed reader for about a month (perhaps). During this time, I have been searching around the net for feeds to stuff in my reader and it led me to wonder, which familiar spaces have had this feature which I had never considered/used till now? The answer is, a lot! The list is in no particular order. Personal Sites The classic! Many folks on neocities have an RSS feed for their website updates aka a changelog. Continue reading →
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My Mobile App Usage Limits
Setting up a app usage tracking app is one of those things that has been extremely helpful when addictive phone usage behavior kicks in. I’m going through it at this very moment (thanks Tumblr staff for setting your site on fire and sending folks to Pillowfort/sarcasm) so here I am, writing about how effective is my medicine when I’m feeling unwell. I’m using StayFree to time track apps usage on mobile, Desktop, and web browser as well as the stock app usage tracking and blocker on my phone. Continue reading →
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To Share or not to Share
I’ve been thinking about if I’m able to host my own microblog, how well connected can I make it to the rest of the internet (ie. Fediverse). I think it’s way too early to consider something like this when the intention was to have this microblog as less interaction heavy as possible. I explicitly forbid micro.blog to send my posts to the Fediverse and block all replies. Throughout my research on Micropub and the IndieWeb, I’ve seen netizens who know much more about coding host their own microblog that can effective work as a Mastodon account with it’s capability to send and receive replies, likes, reblogs, comments, and even RSVP. Continue reading →
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ArimaMary's Site Homepage 2.0 Postmortem
Post mortem? I haven’t written one of these in a couple of months. A completed project I want to write about. I think it should be the new homepage for my main site. Here’s an image of the final result. It’s hard to believe and even more to say that it wasn’t done with a layout generator. This layout was done by hand, on a code editor. I didn’t have an idea what I wanted this new homepage to look like so I stayed in front of VSCodium and tested several ideas on the stop. Continue reading →
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My First Domain Name: Day One
With my new custom domain, I created several subdomains for the sites I had deployed across different hosted (ie. Netlify and micro.blog). This list shows the changes in domain names. arimamary-linktree.netlify.app-> linkree.arimamary.net arimamary-after-dark.netlify.app -> afterdark.arimamary.net arimamary.micro.blog -> micro.arimamary.net Continue reading →
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Why did I make an account on micro.blog and why am I paying a dollar a month to have a place to ramble?
I have been an avid user of Mastodon since September 2025. A couple of weeks ago, likely from overexposure, I got the classic symptoms of social media overstimulation. Messily, I attempted to cut back on the amount of time I was spending on the platform and pondered hard on the reasons behind the decay of my mental health. Mastodon was supposed to be a healthier alternative to mainstream social media right? Continue reading →
