Notes

2022.03.21

Screenshot of my website with updated domain joshuaw.xyz as listed in the Netlify management dashboard

Upgraded the primary domain for this site to its final form here at the end of the internet:

Welcome to joshuaw.xyz

[ Full post: welcome to joshua w dot xyz ]

2022.03.20

Updated the home page of this site today, adding prominent links to RSS feeds, a gallery of recent post images, and returning a link to the “Featured / Longer Things” post collection. Now I need to update the front matter of all the other missing posts that belong in that “featured” collection.

And with the images back I feel like I should start taking and posting more photographs of things other than just screenshots and shit I bought.

[ Full post: Home and Taxonomy Updates (March 20, 2022) ]

2022.03.20

I had in mind a new reading update rule for 2022 - I wasn’t going to post a reading update about any book (neither here nor on Goodreads) until I was at least 10-15% of the way into the book.

But I forgot my rule, and now the books I barely started and haven’t continued to read are hanging over my head, and I hate all you big invisible jerks for holding me silently accountable for every random thing I post here.

[ Full post: The 15% rule for Reading Updates ]

2022.03.09

I recently built and shared this ‘Top Titles of 2021’ thing at work.

[ Full post: A Thing I Made At Work - Granite Top Titles of 2021 ]

2022.03.08

‘Album Released’ notifications might be my very favorite phone notifications.

‘Album Released’ notifications might be my favorite phone notifications.

[ Full post: Listening Repeatedly to PAINLESS by Nilüfer Yanya ]

2022.03.07

Turns out I can’t resist the re-read.

Dust jacket of Black Leopard Red Wolf on my desk

[ Full post: blackleopardredwolfagain ]

2022.03.07

I often find myself tinkering with already-published notes on this site. I initially thought of this as a confession, because at times I’ve felt that editing old posts (beyond fixing minor typos or bugs) is somehow cheating. But, no, revision is not cheating. There is no rule of any sort that I cannot change, improve, or remove old posts as I see fit. It turns out that this is my own website and I make the rules around here.