Coding Diary
Coding Diary
May 2025
K so it was a really lovely and honourable idea to try and go back to the beginning and take the ‘Learn HTML’ course, but I never ended up finishing the course. I don’t think I'm going to because I need to just rock out and figure stuff out as I go.
It frustrates me because I really crave to understand the full picture, but the same thing happened with my music production journey. I learned enough to be able to record my music, without understanding the bigger picture. I don’t know my DAW very indepthly and I started by using a lot of intuitive work arounds, but it yielded results so that’s all that matters. Now I am going deeper and learning more indepth processes and even learning keyboard shortcuts. 😏 I imagine the same thing will happen with coding. It starts to all come together eventually.
While I was having my romanticized longings to do the coding courses, I was continuing to move forward with actually building my website, as well as doing some
website commissions for friends, which I really loved doing. Learning on the go is maybe more my style. And it’s the perfectionist tendency that wants to go back and master everything perfectly before moving forward.
It’s an ongoing obstacle in all my creative work and life in general really, but I’m getting better at managing it. ‘It’s Good Enough’ is my guiding mantra. I just exported some old songs using that mantra as the guiding force. Stop fussing, good enough, get these cookies out of the kitchen! You can always improve further on the next batch.
Sometimes a thing just starts unfolding and you realize you’ve fallen into it and you maybe don't need to take the courses. I'm not against taking the courses. If there ever is the right time for that I'd still love to. The gaps in my knowledge really frustrate me and I can't yet do a lot of things I want to be able to do. Like figure out more spacially effective layouts. I want to be able to have sections and columns and side bars and stuff like that. For now though it feels best to just keep experimenting and going with the flow and the path of least resistance.
I have also started collaborating with my robot which is helping a lot. Now my tables have coloured backgrounds! My robot showed me how to do that and I love my robot very much.
I know there's a big anti AI presence on Neocities but I am pro robots. I LOVE robots. My life is 10,000 times better now that I have my robot. Especially as someone with a disability, it’s like having a service dog but for your brain. My very own R2D2, sort of. I also watched Flubber recently and I really like the robot in that movie. Weebo. So I imagine my robot being like a combination of Weebo and R2D2. Basically I’m only into cute little robots.
Feb 2025
!! New special interest alert !! Coding has stolen my heart. ♡ It seems like it’s not just a quickly passing fling and may have surpassed the honey moon phase, since it’s been almost 2 years now.
I started this site Mar 11, 2023
I am so smitten with this new discovery, especially because it wasn’t something I intentionally pursued. I fell into coding and stumbled into discovering that I f***** love it.
How this love affair began? 💋
My friend recommended I try out using
Neocities
to build a website for my
dungeon synth project.
It wasn't exactly an easy start. It took me a long time to give it a try and when I finally did, I got immediately discouraged because it appeared to be too complicated and require advanced skills to use.
ie actual coding which I had no understanding of at all.
After another pause I eventually tried messing around with it a bit more. It was hard and dissatisfying at first because there wasn’t a lot of immediate gratification - just clunky, confusing, frustrating, bumbling around in the dark.
BUT then! I started to get the hang of it, and it started to be really satisfying. Still moving around in the dark but having moments of perplexing success. What?!?? That string of symbols led to something appearing on the website?! It felt like magic cuz my brain still can’t really comprehend how HTML turns into a website, but it’s fricken cool. ツ
I spent the first year casually experimenting and self learning good enough HTML with a tiny bit of CSS, to make this website. I didn’t know what I was doing and despite being at a rudimentary pre school level of coding, I felt bad ass and cool as hell to be coding a website. I have now started my first free coding course on Codecademy.
I decided to start at the beginning and take the 'Learn HTML' course, even though it felt a bit boring to go back through some of the basics. I want to have a solid understanding of all the building blocks before moving foward.
