“I love how there’s a lot more girls in this season.” - my daughter while we check out the new #Fortnite season skins.
Kid in hockey for the first time at 12yo thoughts: hockey doesn’t seem very newb friendly. There’s definitely an assumption you’ve been playing since you were 5. But we’re learning fast.
This could be great for people wanting forum style conversations, but with the ease of setting up a new Discord server - Discord launching forum channels.
Reason #203 why I love the internet: A tutorial video I published over 3 years ago was helpful to someone today. I didn’t make ad revenue, sell a course, sign anyone up to an email list - just showed how I do something so someone else could learn how to do something.
I’ve been following along with Micro.blog’s development from the beginning and I appreciate the slow and steady improvements being made to the platform. The v3.0 beta looks like it’ll be a nice update to their mobile app.
iOS 16 could’ve implemented this one setting for Photos and I would’ve said it’s a worthwhile upgrade. I’d never considered just using Shortcuts to automatically change orientation lock each time you open or close Photos. It’s brilliant.
One downside to running the public iOS beta all summer is it makes the today’s official release day a lot less exciting. At least there’s the annual iOS review by @viticci to dig into.
How much Google juice boost does a link in a moderately popular podcast’s episode notes actually mean in 2022? Setting aside usability or listener benefit - just for the actual site being linked to. #coldmedbrainquestions
When everything else in the world feels messed up, I can always count on the @ShopTalkShow banjo intro at the start of my edit to put me in a better mood than when I started. Just go create something is so therapeutic for my brain.
#JustBuildWebsites
I’m not trying to judge anyone, but a whole bunch of people are going to go from “I’m so busy I can’t keep up” to suddenly finding time to watch 7,000 hours of coverage about the life and death of #QueenElizabeth.
Unlocking a Bit of My Trauma Brain
11 months ago my father-in-law died unexpectedly. I’ve recognized that my body is processing the shock and trauma of current events in my life in very similar ways to that time period 11 months ago, even though in the big scheme of things current events in my life aren’t as impactful as a sudden death.
Something I unlocked in my brain about myself through this, is recognizing that when my body is processing trauma:
- I’m not going to be as productive.
- I need to be ok with slowing down.
- Efficiency can’t be the priority.
- I need to get away from work and touch grass when the night brain voices try to take over.
- Some things just aren’t going to make sense, and justice may never be realized, because we as humans seek to preserve the reality we see, and fight hard to let anything in that might break or challenge our perception of reality.
Sometimes the hurt and anger threaten to overwhelm, and I feel like my body is going to physically explode. In other moments, the grief is so debilitating that I find it hard to breath between the tears. Up until these two events over the past year, I didn’t recognize how exhausting it is when your body is physically processing something like this.
And it’s so important to recognize that, if we are able to, give ourselves space and time to rest and recover and know that this is not forever - our body, mind, and spirit will heal just like if we broke our arm. There will be scars that remain long after, but you - and I - will be able to heal if we take care of ourselves through the traumatic event.
A few random thoughts as this tweet turned into a blog post that turned into a oversharing rambling journal entry:
- I’m not going to share publicly about what’s going on right now. IYKYK as the kids say. Feel free to DM or contact me directly if you have good intentions.
- Nobody is dying or sick. My family is healthy. We have a home and food on the table. We are immensely fortunate. This all reads as more serious than it actually is in some respects. I’m an enneagram 4 who’s prone to fits of melancholy that I work through with creativity. Deal with it. 😊
- Please get a counsellor if you’re going through anything at all. Do not try to self-diagnose mental health forever. It costs $$.
- Be ok with saying no to people around you that don’t feel like a safe place to process or work through things with. It doesn’t mean you have to shut them out forever. Not everyone needs to help you heal from the immediate trauma. You might need someone 6 months down the road who can help in different ways than the people who are there right now in the middle of it all.
Happy 11th birthday to my 🍋 baby, @lemonproduction. You’ve grown from “what am I even doing?”, through the awkward early years of “WordPress, PHP, and social media maybe?”, and now entering your second decade as a confident “podcast and related things”… thing? 🎉🎂
