11 january 2024
Trying this markdown business in feels
feels was exactly what I was looking for, even though I didn't know it. Can I start a sentence that way? Just a little record of how things are going, posted online; where given the inevitability of time and probability, someone will come across it. That's you! And me also, so, hi!
I thought to make a website, I would get tired of writing with HTML. All those angle brackets. Markdown is a little easier -- I can write normally, and something will appear. Other things I like about Markdown:
- I learned some formatting through osmosis, over the years. Maybe on tumblr, reddit, or other bulletin boards
- Hey, vim automatically inserted a new line after that comma there, after tumblr! Whoa and it did another one right after 'after'. I really don't understand vim.
Other thoughts:
- I wonder if vim has a 'wrap text' mode... I'm sure it does, but I'd rather wonder about it here, publicly, forever, than look it up. That's just how I am.
- I am a vim novice. I am thankful to 'linux upskill challenge' for encouraging me to take the plunge and learn how to do basic things in it. Now at least I can save, quit, and do stuff like that. I wonder why this line doesn't get an automatic new line?
- And when I do press enter, it indents my next line, and I have to single backspace to enter in my next *. Something weird afoot for sure.
- Feels is great! And onto the style question: do you put a period at the end of list elements? Yes when some of them are multi-sentence?
I suppose next I can think about editing index.html to link to /blog... still not sure how it all works to get a single page that updates with new entries at the top. Maybe ttbp automatically handles everything? We'll see. Feels pretty great! -p
What's next
There's still a lot I don't know. I am a little afraid of 'email' as it exists on a linux server, between users. How does it work? Leaving that to another time
Other things:
- I am logged into irc, with nick 'semitones'; haven't joined any channels yet, partially because I know people will see the join and talk to me, and I'm not sure I have anything to say, lol. Will probably join later and say hi.
- I'm connecting via Hexchat and an SSH tunnel which I set up some time ago. I'm definitely not a commandline native -- it is kind of a second language, learned when I was a teen.
- This is line 37 of the ttbp entries file for today.
- Town IRC does not seem to have MemoServ, which is a shame bc I like memoserv :P
- I will try to figure out what this Song of the Day (SOTD) business is... right now, Baptism by Crystal Castles just came on, and it is such a nice nostalgic tune. I would make that my song of the day. :)
- Back to my "pre-feels" entry about privacy, by now I'm sure that I've written enough here that someone could figure out my identity if they had enough of my other writing with my name attached. Whatever. There's being careful, and there's paranoia. I guess that's a feel too. :P
- Typing emoticons after the period has to be one of those things. :P
- Also, that specific tongue-out smile. :P
If someone wanted to contact me, they could probably send me a pm on IRC to user semitones. If I'm really logged in, or if they are persistent, I will probably see it.
Other ways:
- I'm not sure how tildemail works, but if it alerts the user at login, then i'll probably see that.
- In this server, you can read files in other people's directories? Do you have write permission too? There is a lot I don't remember about this town from when I signed up and learned some things. There's always `ls -l'