At the end of last week, I didn't have any progress to show for my SWS-ing, but I've carved out some time during the week to poke at my site, and it's been really nice to get things done. Originally the plan was to archive some Superman fics (movieverse and TV, various fandoms) because that would be a new fandom category that would draw together some old and new stuff, including the drabbles I just worked on for Seasons of Drabbles summer round.
Instead, I wound up tinkering with the HTML on my fic page and decided to go ahead and create an 'Other' category for my one-fic fandoms because it will be neater in the long run if I can bucket them all in there. I've also started moving my unpublished WIPs into the main fandom sections instead of a separate section at the bottom. The rationale being: I have a bunch of WIPs already among my published fic, so the only difference with the others is that I didn't publish them at the time. But some of them I decided to house on SquidgeWorld years later, so... at that point, are they even 'unpublished'? This way, they get proper metadata, although I do have to come up with a summary xD
One of the unpublished WIPs I hadn't archived (but now have) was a Peter Pan fic excerpt, and so I decided to do the Peter Pan fics next, and now I'm having fun archiving those, including a cyberpunk AU that I serialised in bits and pieces on a dedicated blog. So that's been an unexpected trip down memory lane.
On links: I covered part of this in the check-in post, but reading the essays collected on Coy's site (and I didn't even get through all of them) really rewired my brain and made me much more aware of how, and where, I link on my site. I started thinking about links that would fit with the purpose of my personal archive, and I've now made a reclists section on my meta page (it only has two lists on it, but still! Recs!) to archive reclists that I've published. It was also nice to acknowledge those as a type of fanwork that I've made (not very many of, but I like the ones I have made). I'm also planning to link to fanworks that have been gifted to me on the site, although I haven't decided where that will sit yet.
I want to give a link to This Page is Designed to Last: A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web which I read around the same time, and which also rewired my brain, this time in terms of thinking about what type of content "lasts" on the web and how to make my site as light-touch as can be. This was what got me started down the track of minifying my imagery, which is one of my goals for SWS. I also replaced the links within my meta essays with archived versions, even when they were still live, just in case those should break somewhere down the line.
The related discussion on Hacker News is also a good read, with recommendations shared for good places to save bookmarks. It got me to download Joplin (purportedly an open-source Evernote alternative), although I haven't the faintest idea how to start using it, so I haven't done anything with it yet.
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Date: 2025-09-11 09:23 pm (UTC)Instead, I wound up tinkering with the HTML on my fic page and decided to go ahead and create an 'Other' category for my one-fic fandoms because it will be neater in the long run if I can bucket them all in there. I've also started moving my unpublished WIPs into the main fandom sections instead of a separate section at the bottom. The rationale being: I have a bunch of WIPs already among my published fic, so the only difference with the others is that I didn't publish them at the time. But some of them I decided to house on SquidgeWorld years later, so... at that point, are they even 'unpublished'? This way, they get proper metadata, although I do have to come up with a summary xD
One of the unpublished WIPs I hadn't archived (but now have) was a Peter Pan fic excerpt, and so I decided to do the Peter Pan fics next, and now I'm having fun archiving those, including a cyberpunk AU that I serialised in bits and pieces on a dedicated blog. So that's been an unexpected trip down memory lane.
On links: I covered part of this in the check-in post, but reading the essays collected on Coy's site (and I didn't even get through all of them) really rewired my brain and made me much more aware of how, and where, I link on my site. I started thinking about links that would fit with the purpose of my personal archive, and I've now made a reclists section on my meta page (it only has two lists on it, but still! Recs!) to archive reclists that I've published. It was also nice to acknowledge those as a type of fanwork that I've made (not very many of, but I like the ones I have made). I'm also planning to link to fanworks that have been gifted to me on the site, although I haven't decided where that will sit yet.
I also plan to archive my ongoing fic archive/indie web resources list as a page on the site.
I want to give a link to This Page is Designed to Last: A Manifesto for Preserving Content on the Web which I read around the same time, and which also rewired my brain, this time in terms of thinking about what type of content "lasts" on the web and how to make my site as light-touch as can be. This was what got me started down the track of minifying my imagery, which is one of my goals for SWS. I also replaced the links within my meta essays with archived versions, even when they were still live, just in case those should break somewhere down the line.
The related discussion on Hacker News is also a good read, with recommendations shared for good places to save bookmarks. It got me to download Joplin (purportedly an open-source Evernote alternative), although I haven't the faintest idea how to start using it, so I haven't done anything with it yet.