yesterday I updated my website, the first step in trying to see what it'll look like decolonized.
nerds might care that it uses the newly released luciole font, which is apparently researched-back easy for the visually impaired to read.
(Not that I've uh, done my due diligence in other regards to the visually impaired; it's a priority.)
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@emsenn what does decolonization involve in this context?
@f0x I don't know yet! I've been thinking about it but I think I need something I can like, touch and play with some to really do any more thinking, thus, the more stripped down website.
I think it means a few things:
1) I think it means changing how I view my writing and its intention away from presenting a state (conclusion) to presenting an action(s)... what that means stylistically I'm not sure
2) I think the same could be said of programming, which I was kinda going toward with like monads and functional programming? But I think the language we use to talk it could shift a wee bit
3)
@emsenn maybe pages that you update as you work on something can address (1)? More of a list of things that happened, instead of a final 'this is what worked and how I did it'
@f0x *nod* It's funny, a lot of this - let me back up.
I have noticed, broadly, that many parts of personal decolonization involve leaning into certain behaviors or attitudes I already do or have. Maybe that's me projecting my own beliefs onto it, inappropriately, but I don't think so.
In this case, I've noticed a trend in my - and others - technical writing, where a tutorial piece will be the author writing their own self-education, providing the context of what they already know, 1/n
rather than as you say presenting a final "these are the facts I learned."
You see this with... omg well now I'm drawing a complete blank but a few people here in the Fediverse who dev and write tutorials. I do it often with writing my own code (though atm those are pulled down so I can't link a demo, sorry.)
Fewer essays, more stories, would be the broad way of putting it, but I don't mean creating fictions as a literary device: I mean telling the actual true story of how you learned
@emsenn I think I tried this with my tamafoxi writeup: https://pixie.garden/~/Thingies/tamafoxi/
however, this was all written in a night, *after* doing it all, and instead I want to get in the habbit of describing my progress *while* I do things
sidenote: seems I've just found a purpose for the notebook I had laying around :D
@f0x *nod* I've got a demo now but I have no fucking clue how to share an HTML document with the Internet anymore because everything is services and bullsiht so.
(And no I'm not asking for people to @ me with one of the 100,000 ways that exist, the point is there's no standard one especially not if you don't run your own website)