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Notes on “tilde-ing”

Fact 1: Sometimes when I start a creative thing I get lost in the “concept of the thing”, instead of focusing on, you know, the thing itself . Bad habit. I blame the anxiety. If you spend all your time preparing to do the work, you can never fail. Right?

Fact 2: Turning meta was the death rattle of all my blogging attempts. When I had nothing to say I talked about having nothing to say.

Decision: This file. Dump the meta here and lose the link. But it is public - at least as much as the rest of this thing, sitting on a random server with no links going in. (Am I getting meta already?)

Thoughts that had been had

A tilde.club page is lost in the crack between “private” and “public”. On one hand: Once it’s on the internet, you can never take it back. On the other: the chance of this material ever finding an audience is approaching zero. If you want to write something privately, it fails. If you want to make something public to let people know, it fails. What is it good for?

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I find it hard not to get sidetracked by the technology, even if I tried to make it as unobtrusive as possible. I don’t want to code pages by hand, so I use a static site generator. I have it set up now to create pages. That should be enough. But I keep thinking about autogenerating lists and formatting and includes. I seem to be used to think in methods and form.