Learning on the Go & Robots

May 2025

It was a nice 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 things 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 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.