Rigidity

feb 18, 2026

im fighting against the entire structure of this site. so much fucking time spent making stupid fucking templates so that each post looks polished and nice and identical. like this site is somewhere a respectable programmer would post their personal projects. but now i find myself incapable of and uninterested in writing anything that isn’t stream of consciousness slop.

it doesn’t work.

#include <iostream>
#include <string>

// why did i spend so much time
// dicking around with the code formatting options
// just to write out

std::string part1 = "random shit about random shit";
std::string part2 = " and then delete it 3 seconds later";

I do think it’s interesting in a way. the content of this site and the presentation don’t really match at all and there’s not even enough content on here to be getting so meta and introspective about it.

those last two statements are sorta unrelated
but if i put them side by side i can force it

but you feel the mismatch anyways
like passing over a rail joint

it’s made worse by the fact that people who know me might see this and read this.

can you tell im trying to get the most out of my formatting options?

I can’t pretend to be making whatever it is i think im making when people I know irl will see this and imagine me saying these things and writing these things and apply context that shouldn’t exist.





me

so this whole site ends up coming across as a weird self obsessed overly anxious mess with one article about some bullshit freshman level algo

me

and as the days go by the less sense i feel it makes for ANYONE to have a site like this. let alone ME

also me

it’s like i tried making some weird artist portfolio site but im not an artist and i have no art so there’s no portfolio

also me

and it’s dressed up in this pseudo professional programmer clothes

also me

so every time i get the urge to do anything im scraping against the inside of my gut trying to find something to put here and all I get is bile and shit and chewed up mushed up garbage

also also me

except that’s not true!

also also me

you’re being overly critical and mean for no reason

me

it’s just easier to write anything that feels like anything if it’s mean and anxious and neurotic

also also me

but you DO have art. you DO make cool things.

also also me

some of it is silly and most of it is mediocre. but it’s still art and it’s yours.

also also me

photography and chiptune and stickers and comics and programming

also me

but ok then why is none of it on this site? why is all of this just weird word vomit talking in circles

also me

like

also me

we’re losing the plot here a little bit. this site is boring and the majority of posts are nonsense

i dunno i just like writing.