Do you ever inspect the code on webpages made in the early 2000's? The 90's? It's fascinating to see how conventions have changed... I learn a lot from them. Currently looking at this webpage's code written in 2002 (it says so in the html!) It's a sub page on a French socialist choir group's website for sharing their agenda => http://fmi2.free.fr/Francais/Agenda.htm • I like to try and give my cat interesting experiences. Sometimes after petting a cat in the neighborhood, I won't touch anything until I'm home and he can sniff my hand. Sometimes I bring him home feathers that I found at the beach. Sometimes while cooking I'll put a little bit of butter on my finger so he can lick it off. His world is so tiny in my apartment, I want to make it feel bigger. • Happy HTML Day ❇️❇️❇️❇️❇️ • Woke up filled with inspiration - Channeled the inspiration into this tool: https://jake-welch-design.github.io/stone_carver_tool/ Here's something I made with it: https://www.are.na/block/49323900 - @dom thanks for sending, lovely rendition of a song I already loved • I've wondered for years if this had a name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_(typography) • I have an affinity for songs over 5 minutes long • Steph stooped a scanner the other day and it works perfectly. First order of business, I digitized my used book ephemera collection and archived it on are.na: https://www.are.na/jake-welch/used-book-ephemera-archive • "...it used to be a truism that great literature finds "the universal in the particular." It feels like contemporary literature is content with just the particular, it's not looking for the universal." Critique of trends in contemporary lit that I read today. I’ve seen this time and time again and it described what I’ve felt perfectly • How do I make work that: - Encourages people to connect with other people - Helps people notice details in the world around them - Gets people to engage with their physical environment • Sitting next to my open living room window as the rain pours over the leaves of the tree. I haven't had much time for daydreaming lately • I put my watch on upside down again today without noticing. I've started imagining what something like this could mean. People used to base their entire lives around superstitions like this • I lost my copy of The Magic Mountain, I think it slipped off the bench without me noticing while I was at the park. Oh well, maybe I wasn't meant to read it yet • TextEdit is my favorite app • I live almost entirely in the moment. Sometimes this is good, sometimes this is bad. – A few months ago I wrote something about allowing myself to be like a pebble in a stream, watching the river flow by, but I do think there comes a time where it's time to pick up the pebble and toss it around a little. • I've been incredibly restless lately, I must have spring fever like my cat. I've desperately been needing to find new ideas, new projects to work on, friends to be around, energy to feed off of •  I have learned to love the smell of the air when it's hot and humid