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I’ve been meaning to give the site a “proper” name other than just “Marijn’s site” — catch is, of course, my site is bilingual, and a name which sounds perfectly mellifluous in one language might sound clunky and forced in the other
satyrwoud 2 years ago

I would have gone with just “The Forest”, by analogy with “The Garden”, but that was taken about a thousand times over already

satyrwoud 2 years ago

I’d post all this meta natter on The Garden but i don’t want to fall into the trap of “blogging without blogging”, as it were (http://www.dirtyfeed.org/2021/12/on-not-writing/)

saint-images 2 years ago

"Marijn's site" is perfect, for you are Marijn and this site is indeed nobodys but yours.

satyrwoud 2 years ago

I’m just future-proofing here — i’ve already changed my name once before; who says i won’t do it again in the future? :-)

brennholz 2 years ago

This bilingual issue could be solved by not thinking of your site as a location like a "forest" or whatever. Instead, think of it as a living being, since those have names that don't have to be translated, like Gregory. Like instead of "Marijn's site", it'd be "Gregory", the site of Marijn. (This is a terrible idea)

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satyrwoud 2 years ago

If Tim Berners-Lee didn't want us to think of websites as places in cyberspace, he shouldn't have called them *sites*!

raelhbishop 2 years ago

Well, sites in real life change too, not unlike living beings. Times Square in New York City looks nothing like it did a hundred years ago, or a thousand or a million for that matter. Byzantium became Constantinople became Istanbul. That being said, I feel 'marijn's site' works best as its name - it's short, it's simple, it's all-encompassing.

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bdkcorrigan 2 years ago

Most of the books I've read in translation have a different title on the translated edition! You could have a different mellifluous title for each language!

if you know what an nft is you need to go outside
satyrwoud 2 years ago

Further more, if you know what the fuck "Web3" means, please go take a month long sabbatical in the Lake District

satyrwoud 2 years ago

They've got a pencil museum, I'm sure it'll be more fun than arguing about bitcoin on the internet

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satyrwoud 2 years ago

Or, hey, you could move there, start a pub or something. Probably a more reliable source of income than pictures of monkeys

arandomsite 2 years ago

all i know is that it means non fungible token

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saint-images 2 years ago

@arandomsite I don't like the "non fungi" part, I love mushrooms, why are they trying to take it away from us???

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sulfuracid 2 years ago

LMAOOO ISTG I GOOGLED WHAT IT IS AND NOBODY ANSWERED

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cepheus 2 years ago

It’s CHARLI baby

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Six days left until your Saturnalia submissions start going up! :-) Hope everyone enjoys them
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I almost posted a grovelling "I'm so sorry I haven't updated in three seconds" post here before I remembered... oh, right, it's my own website and there's no algorithm coming to eat me if i don't regularly provide Content
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satyrwoud 2 years ago

The wonders of the free internet!

finally, lieutenant salt's friendly lungs club band
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satyrwoud 2 years ago

This was meant to be just a quick minimal thing, but i couldn’t help myself — I’ve implemented a fancy theme selector.

satyrwoud 2 years ago

(“On the Gods and the World” is technically available, but still needs a bit of sprucing up to meet the house style / be readable (did they not have paragraphs in 1793?) — you have been warned!)

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satyrwoud 2 years ago

Only one new word (mun), but, hey, i am nowt if not a diligent updater

My apologies for the relative pause in updates; it's been a long week, and the part of my brain that has room for frivolous hobbies has unfortunately drained out of a small hole in the back
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