NaBloPoMo 2025, November 3. I have an announcement to make. Like many of you (well, all of you) I find it tiresome to watch my cell phone inbox fill up with spam every single day. I used to just…

It was a beautiful day out when I made the move from Kingsport to Morganton, North Carolina. It was my first time living away from home and I was hyped. My parents were excited for me, of course, b…

NaBloPoMo 2025, November 3. I have an announcement to make. Like many of you (well, all of you) I find it tiresome to watch my cell phone inbox fill up with spam every single day. I used to just…

Remember the Ticket Booth I talked about yesterday? That was actually an afterthought this year, an idea I came up with as I was developing the primary project: a full-size, functioning marquee! Ka…

NaBloPoMo 2025: November 2 A great concern me has always been the lack of solidarity affluent white gay men and lesbians demonstrate to the larger LGBTQ+ community, especially those who do not…

Years ago, I used to put on a pretty great Halloween show at my house. Each year it grew more and more, and while I had a few pre-made props and store-bought animatronics, I took a lot of pride in …

November has sneaked up on me this year. One moment I had loads of October left to work with and all these plans to finish off some half-written projects to give me a clean slate for November, and do some post planning ahead of the start of Nablopomo and the next it was suddenly the first of November. However, what is November - and Nablopomo more widely - than an excuse to take some time to dedicate to writing and to take stock on what I’m doing and what I’m writing about.

Greetings, readers of Beard Hair in My Coffee! It’s no secret that I’ve been putting most of my creative efforts (with regard to writing, at least) on my other project, Iconoclast (which I hope you…

# November, Again November, Again November, Again November, Again Published on: November 1, 2025 Categories: NaBloPoMo 4, Personal 19 Current drink: Ceylon tea For the third time, I am attempting to write a blog post for every day of November. I managed to do it for 2023 and 2024. I won’t promise I’ll manage to post every day this time, but I’ll try. ## Apple Annie I was not sure if I will do this attempt, but when thinking about the coming November, I couldn’t stop thinking about Anne Sturdivant who passed at the beginning of this year (post by Adam Newbold — thanks for letting us know), and who was the constant presence for this challenge for the last years. Annie was an inspiration, and I loved how many different topics she covered in her blogs. I mentioned her posts and experiments five times in my blog, and I am endlessly sad that no new posts of her will be mentioned here. But I will try to at least continue doing this challenge: even though it was always very tough, it was always _productive_. For me, that challenge will now always be associated with Annie. ## Burnout I did not write about CSS a lot this year, right? Neither on my main site, nor in this blog. And I did not do many new experiments. I am a perfectionist, and often it feels like, sometimes, I care too much about what I do. And then, when I expect the same care from others, and find that it is just not there, it can hurt. My debt of spoons is big, and it is hard to find strength for doing anything. So many drafts, so many of them are not finished, not published, covered by digital dust, crumbled in a corner between dropped anime series and unfinished video games. My hope is that having to post each day of this month will at least produce _something_. ## The Plan I have a big backlog of stuff I want to write about, but I also created a list of what I could write about this month specifically. I won’t post it here, but here is what I will _try_ to do: * Every weekend I will post something non-CSS related: more personal notes, thoughts, maybe game reviews? We’ll see. * Weekdays will be for more front-end related stuff. CSS. Maybe something else. Maybe will do some more work on this blog and post some dev logs? Other than that, I don’t think I will follow any specific structure. I hope that on the weekends I could manage start writing drafts for some of the future November posts, just so I will be not as pressed to do so on the actual days. I want to say and write even more now that I started — as it often happens with me. The hardest thing is to begin, then words start flowing. ## Thank You If you read this post — thank you. Sometimes it feels that the internet of old is gone. But anyone who has it in them to read random musings of people on the web contributes to the idea of independent network. And if you’ll want to write a few more posts than usual this November — send them my way, regardless of the topic — I’ll be happy to read them.

The prompt: What is your favourite autumnal flavour? OK, so this makes me giggle. There are so many to choose from such as pumpkin, pumpkin spice, pumpkin pie, pumpkin latte, pumpkin pie Blizzards,…

To create is to live twice. – Albert Camus I haven't updated in a while, but my few but dear blogging companions kept going. Robin of Robayre writes about two recent losses (one turned out great, the other unexpected and sad). Mary-Ann has, after doing a public count-down for years, finally stopped working to enjoy retired life. Her joy of being finally free is contagious.

The prompt:  What is your favourite autumnal flavour? OK, so this makes me giggle. There are so many to choose from such as pumpkin, pumpkin spice, pumpkin pie, pumpkin latte, pumpkin pie Blizzards…

Over the last couple of years, I’ve evolved a new autumnal tradition of taking myself off the Aberdeen for a weekend of art and music - and also seasonal shopping and Japanese food. Which handily generally provides me with some extra things to write about for Nablopomo usually on the art front, however this year’s trip was rather heavier on the gigs than it was on the art - there was an excellent sounding exhibition on at the Art Gallery, but in spectacularly bad timing it was starting the Saturday after I was there, rather than the Saturday when I was in Aberdeen - so that’s what you get a post about this time round.

Every November, as if bloggers didn't face enough pressure in keeping up with their sites, some take on the challenge known as 'NaBloPoMo.'

The approach I take to defining ViewModels for SwiftUI was heavily inspired by Paul Hudson’s post Introducing MVVM into your SwiftUI project. In it, he advocates for defining class ViewModel inside...