The Trash Can: Page Removals

This page serves as a rough listing of pages that you’re not crazy if you’re thinking, “huh, that used to exist, where is it?”, because they’ve been intentionally removed. This list is not guaranteed to be exhaustive.

“Cloudy Day”

This was a page dedicated to the sailboat I owned for a bit over 3 years, and lived on for one. I never really did document the projects and adventures on that boat as much as I thought I might. It turns out trying to do things and documenting them, as just one person with limited time and energy, is A Lot ™️. Anyway, for those curious how the saga ended, I eventually moved back up onto land, and a ways later, sold the boat. It doesn’t feel useful to have a half-baked page of a former project floating around (hah, puns).

I have gotten emails asking about some now-confusingly-loose ends in other writing on the site that don’t make as much sense without the boat page up to fill in context: over time I hope to replace any such allusions with more direct stories or parentheticals to make things a bit more cohesive.

“Now”

I’m going to strongly echo Jake Bauer’s thoughts on this topic, so if you read both of our sites, sorry for the deja-vu.

Anyway - a /now page is a really cool idea - a well-known path on indie sites to let folks know, at an executive summary level, what you’re up to right now! Splendid, right? For me, the format never really fit my lifestyle or energy levels, and so I’ve canned the page for now. Maybe I’ll give it another go some day.

A Now page is predicated on the assumption that one’s life is highly varied over time, and noteworthy (or at least, I feel that my /now updates should be noteworthy, to be worth reading at all). While my life is highly varied in general, with a long list of hobbies and projects and interests, it’s rarely varied over time. I have my lanes, and I mostly stick to them. When I take on new projects, they tend to be large in scale, and slow in completion. I’m also highly seasonal, with my winter and early spring largely booked out for volunteering work with FIRST Robotics (modulo a half-dozen and change weekends I get to truly disconnect in those months), meaning my late spring through early fall is typically the time when I can actually dedicate real cycles to getting anything “cool” done.

I’m not sure at time of writing what, if anything, I intend to replace /now with, but it’s gone for… now…