i wrote about homepages and quoted an excerpt from an essay by olia lialina but then when i actually read the essay in the published book there was a link in the footnote to her writing exactly the thing i meant but, like, years earlier. so i added it to the post but dang. i don’t mind riding around with a boombox blasting her message, though. https://maya.land/monologues/2022/09/19/homepages.html
@maya i've been thinking about making changes to it but before i do, you may be interested in my homepage, https://go.kibi.family, in that it literally is what pops up when i open a new tab
@Lady one thousand percent interested!!!
@maya along the lines of Tim BL’s “the homepage doesn't need to be the landing page” i’ve been thinking of splitting off the useful components, maybe into a /Portal/, and making the root more fun/informative with things like current status, random quotes, maybe a word of the day, eventually small games, and that sort of thing
but it's not really a priority for me so i haven't fully mapped out exactly what it will look like
@Lady would you say it's mostly *for* you with others considered as side-users, or mostly *for* everyone and you consider yourself one user of it of potentially any number?
@maya mostly for me; the links and search engines are all things i use regularly
in particular i think it would be a bit weird and unexpected for somebody else to make that page their browser home page, even though it is mine. in an age of neocities and github pages they can easily just fork it and give it the links which would be useful to them
however i think you can learn interesting things about people by looking at the tools they use. so while i don't think other people will necessarily make extensive use of my homepage, i do think they can learn interesting things about me through it
