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.
August 2026
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All posts (61)
Christina may have seen her first, but she was trying with all her might to get eye-level with my tall ass, so this one falls on me. Introducing Penny! (Short for Penelope of course)
I have spent approximately 45 minutes collectively on the computer since April 20th of this year. Writing this post will be representative of a majority of that time. This is a stark contrast to my normal behavior. If I wasn't sleeping or at work, there was a 95% chance I was sitting at the computer doing "computer...
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 never made sense to me on a very fundamental level for the entire trajectory of my...
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 that I wasn't sure they were going to keep me around. I have never really...
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. Check 'em out if you get the chance! π§ Florestan Trio - SCHUMANN Piano Trio No. 1...
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 all broken, and the idea of fixing things post by post is enough to make you...
I really can't thank Brandon enough for mentioning The Classical Station. π§ Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Simonov - KHACHATURIAN Gayne: Lullaby via The Classical Station βοΈ Reply by Email π«§
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 theme here is intentional and the bubbles script broke that aesthetic. If...
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 that likely would have found more use when I was discovering lots of new things...
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 the kindness of digital strangers by The Moody Warlock and wanted to share it...
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. Somebody mentions a thing they like. You highlight text and paste it into Albert...
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 Redemption, and you can feel about that however you want but that's where I first...
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