William's Field Notes
William's Field Notes
William
My blog consists of notes from a working-class life. No polish, no secrets, just noticingings and other things from a guy named William.
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I have had a difficult time stringing together words to make sentences lately, and my mind is all mixed up. What makes this sensation different from times in the past, is that it feels very good this time. There are things that have...
You can't change the people around you, but you can change the people around you. I'm just about a week in at my new position. Despite how excited I have been, I was hesitant to speak about it, because it is such a new territory for me...
I added Bubbles.town Random functionality to the icon at the end of my posts. First click lands me on this gem: florian.photo - A blog where Florian tries to post one photo per day. Currently: Four hundred forty-two consecutive days....
If you've ever exported a WordPress site and ended up with a folder full of markdown files, you know the feeling: the content is there, but it's not quite ready for anywhere else. The metadata is in the wrong shape, the image links are...
I really can't thank Brandon enough for mentioning The Classical Station. 🎧 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Simonov - KHACHATURIAN Gayne: Lullaby via The Classical Station ✉️ Reply by Email 🫧
I added the Bubbles upvoting system to my site this morning. At first, I just dropped in the script, let it render, and moved on. It worked, but it felt like a widget. It sat on the page instead of belonging to it. That matters to me. My...
This post came across my feed after work today and this bit from that piece really struck me close to home: Maybe I'm too old or my month to month interests are just very settled? Maybe I just need to open up a bit? It's the kind of page...
I'm posting this text directly from BearBlog, which is different cos I typically type into Obsidian first, but this is not one of those times. I wanted to come on here and say was genuinely smiling after reading this post: Bear Blog and...
One of my favorite things about the small web is it's ability to casually change your life a little bit for the better. Not in some dramatic, TED Talk, "this changed everything" kind of way. I mean in the older, quieter internet sense....
RELIGION DISCUSSED Faith is not a luxury that I can afford. That has been my response to any religious inquiry anyone has ever posed to me for as far back as I can remember. Truth be told that line actually came from the first Red Dead...
If you're one of the millions of ass-busting Americans who have found yourself somewhat fed up with the diminishing qualities of some of the most prized workwear: Carhartt and Dickies. I have something to report to my fellow blue-collar...
Not exactly sure what it is exactly, but I've never been one to watch too much television. I can't sit still long enough, typically to make it through a movie. Which is mind-boggling to me because I can drop an hour on some 'informative'...
2026 is doing something right for the small web. People are building tools that don't try to replace things. They just make them better. Bear Roll is one of them. https://bearroll.dev/ 🐻 The discovery conundrumBear Blog's Discover page...
When I woke up this morning I had a few emails from inhabitants of the small web. One of these emails came from a fine soul who asked how I accomplished the chevron changes on the upvoting system on Bear Blog. I made a quick Gist of the...
This post has been deleted and started over at least a dozen times in the last twenty-five minutes. I've ripped two smokes trying to figure out how to start this one, and I've bounced between normal for this time of night DEFCON Radio...