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Big thank you to my partner, a couple of friends, and a v good therapist for getting me through 2024. I have no hope of making it to midnight tonight, but here’s hoping 2025 is less of a shit show 🤞🏻
Saw a man talking on the phone while using a urinal today. Junk in one hand, phone in the other. I don’t want to judge (out loud) but, what the actual fuck
Built-in cross-posting, if only I could get it to work
I've spent a few hours this evening trying to figure out how to have my posts here automatically post to Mastodon and Bluesky through the IndieConnector plugin. Mastodon was easy — it worked right away, though it did require a few tweaks to get it going exactly how I want. I have yet to push a single post through to Bluesky, though.
I keep running into a Undefined array key error but I haven't the slightest clue where it's coming from. It only comes up when I try to post to Bluesky, and despite the error coming up, I'm still able to publish posts here and on Mastodon.
It's been maddening. I'm not smart enough to figure out where this error is coming from, and it feels like it surely must be something I'm doing wrong. I just can't even figure out where to start looking.
At least while I was working on this, I was able to take care of a few other updates and tweaks around the place. Feels nice to have everything up to date.
My tolerance for sustained artistic effort is like, an hour or two, max.
Self portrait in progress
First block-in layer complete, sans eyes because my brush was too big and I got tired. I feel like I'm almost starting to get better at skin tones 😅
In the last 9 months I have managed to read… not even 3 whole books. I would like to beat my average (4) this year, so lately I’ve been making it a point to get a couple of chapters in every night before bed. I hate how I can just forget how much I enjoy reading.
Figured out why my RSS feed wasn't including any of the actual images from my blog. The fix requires completely changing how I handle images and manually going back and fixing all of my old posts. Yay! Web dev is so much fun, you guys!
Sometimes I worry that I won’t have anything to talk about in therapy, and then I have a day like today :)
Life Drawing
Went to a life drawing class for the first time in over a decade. I forgot how challenging it is to capture anything from a 2- or 3- minute pose, but it is so nice to spend 2 hours drawing and come away with pages and pages of work.
Every so often I find myself scrolling through Twitter/X and damn, what a cesspool. But also, so many people are still hanging out? I wish social media wasn’t so gross these days.