@absurd-link.bsky.socialRemember when personal websites had personality?
Custom backgrounds, weird layouts, music, galleries, stories—your own corner of the internet.
We're bringing that spirit back, with modern social features.
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@ca-lzon.bsky.socialCharlotte, having seen his body. Borne before her on a shutter. Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter.
-- William Thackeray (Sorrows of Werther)
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@ca-lzon.bsky.socialGreat and good are seldom the same man.
-- Thomas Fuller (Gnomologia)
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@interesting.bookmarks.kvibber.com.ap.brid.gy**slash pages**
"A guide to common pages you can add to your website"
Old standards like /about, /contact and /now, varied pages like /interests, /nope, /yep or /junk, and weirdly specific ones like /caw and /chipotle
@ca-lzon.bsky.socialAnd when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. What do you call it, freedom or loneliness.
-- Charles Bukowski
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@ca-lzon.bsky.socialApologizing, a very desperate habit. One that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
-- Oliver W. Holmes (1859)
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@ca-lzon.bsky.socialAll Nature is but Art unknown to thee. All Chance and Direction which thou canst not see.
-- Alexander Pope (An Essay on Man)
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@ca-lzon.bsky.socialA stumble may prevent a Fall.
-- Thomas Fuller (1654-1734)
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@ca-lzon.bsky.socialEveryone smiles in the same language.
-- George Carlin
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@ca-lzon.bsky.socialThus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world and not a stone tell where I lie.
-- Alexander Pope, Ode on Solitude
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@ca-lzon.bsky.socialI sit beside my lonely fire. And pray for wisdom yet. For calmness to remember. Or courage to forget.
-- Charles Hamilton Aidé
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@ca-lzon.bsky.socialHappy Birthday, Frodo Baggins!
Yesterday was Hobbit Day, here's the post I wrote to commemorate.
lzon.ca/posts/series...
@stewedpearsdotcom.bsky.socialI wrote a little essay about trying to grow a deeply personal, idiosyncratic corner of the internet in an algorithm-driven world – without losing what made that corner special in the first place.
Posting now, against peak-time scheduling
@ca-lzon.bsky.socialUpdate to my previous post
I've put significant work into this page over the past few days.
I'm syndicating it just one more time so that everyone can see the final update.
lzon.ca/posts/other/...
@ca-lzon.bsky.socialJust look at the Time
An interactive page I made to put into perspective the last one hundred years of modern history.
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@divmaster01.bsky.socialmade a tiny page the old-school way again with just html/css and some stuff i've been into lately.
forgot how nice it is when a website can just be simple :)