blaugust 2025, day thirty-one| ribo.zone
in which i pretend to be a blogger| ribo.zone
we're halfway through blaugust and i've posted something every day, somehow. i feel a mix of satisfaction and relief. we're halfway through, so it's possible for me to write. we're halfway through, so i might as well keep going... even though it leaves me with very little time to do anything else. many of the other blaugust participants run gaming blogs, and i look at them with a little bit of envy. i miss playing games! that's how i like to spend my free time after work during the week. but ...| ribo.zone
Q: Hi, i'm someone that is struggling with a learning disorder and i was wondering if you think it is possible for someone like me to finish a biology degree in university? do you have any tips? yes! of course it's possible! you can do it!!! sign by my friend and labmatei don't have any tips for getting through classes, because i struggled a lot with mine and never quite figured out how to struggle less. one of the ways i dealt with it was getting involved in research! it didn't make my class...| ribo.zone
Q: Sorry if you've already answered this somewhere - but how / why do you dither all the images on your site? Do you do them all manually, or do you have some cool pipeline? And was the dithering an aesthetic choice, or also to do with image sizes? I like it btw! how i use dithermark! it's linked in the credits section of my site info page, the webweaving resources section of my links page (under image tools), and most recently, the first section of my contact page, which i hoped would reduce...| ribo.zone
is this a post?| ribo.zone
hello! the earth is once again moving through the perseid cloud. the peak of the meteor shower is tonight (and tomorrow night), so i'll be waking up before dawn to see it. i should probably be sleeping right now instead of blogging, so today's post is a quick but topical roundup of some astronomy sites i enjoy. meteoritical bulletin database database of 77k+ meteorites with basic information about each american meteor society's fireball database fireballs are extra bright meteors. if you see ...| ribo.zone
today was really nice! the sketching group i hang out with met at a park i've never been to before. the weather was beautiful, and i loved sitting in the grass and drawing a few of the things i saw and heard. P.S. for a few weeks i've been saying things like ahhh the cicadas are too high up in the trees... and i wanna see a cicada so bad... and come down to the ground cicadas i need to see you... and today we finally found one! recently eclosed and still a bit green on the wings. it let me pi...| ribo.zone
Q: Your site is a great reminder of how fun & interesting the sciences are! Do you have any thoughts on why so much of science education is made to be dull or overly difficult when the subject matter itself is not dull at all? I guess any subject can be taught in a boring way, but it's just not something I've encountered as much in the liberal arts sphere. thank you! :-) i have many thoughts, but they're mostly questions that lead me to more questions instead of answers. i know that people ar...| ribo.zone
full transcriptafter my temper tantrum of a post the other day, pgadey.ca sent me some words of encouragement and some advice, which I am following now. I'm writing this on paper, in the same notebook that holds both the notes I take at talks and the sketches I do at various art group meetups. I used to keep a separate sketchbook for drawings, but I would abandon them pretty quickly. this is where the art goes! always put too much pressure on me to actually make anything. breaking in a notebo...| ribo.zone
earlier this week, (or maybe last week?) one of my labmates asked me where to get plants. i didn't have any particular recommendations, because all of the plants i live with have come from different places. Dracaena marginata (dragon tree) my oldest surviving houseplant! i bought it from ikea the same week i moved to the east coast. it hasn't grown very much since then, so i should probably think about giving it more attention/water/light/room to grow? Monstera deliciosa (swiss cheese plant) ...| ribo.zone
Q: How is it to live in the New York Metropolitan area? As an European I've always loved NYC from a distance, there's so much fun history and unpretentious artistic, qualities. I've always seen NYC as quite soulful compared to LA. It's easy to get close to your heroes (especially if they were/are a bit aoutside the mainstream spotlight). But things change, and people worry that 1) it's become to streamlined, almost like living in an airport terminal, and 2) it's crazy expensive. How do you se...| ribo.zone
i just spent about two hours of my one precious life typing a sentence and deleting it over and over and over and over and over and over. this sucks!!!!!!!!!!| ribo.zone
yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!!! no more housing lottery!!! ok. so i play the mmorpg final fantasy xiv on a populated server, where it's a pain in the ass to get player housing. there's a limited amount of plots on each server, and they become available after whoever was there before hasn't logged in for 45 days. there's a lottery phase where players can place bids on empty plots (you only get one per phase, and everyone bids the same amount), and a results phase where one of the players who pu...| ribo.zone
i think the .zone top-level domain is very fun. it gives me the feeling that a website is a place, or maybe even a game. today i'm in the mood to explore the .zone space, but i don't want to do it in a practical way. no search engines, no link directories. i want to find new websites in the same way that i did during a brief period of my childhood: by typing something into the address bar and seeing if it exists. i've matured a little since then, so no fart.com (or um.. fart.zone?); instead, ...| ribo.zone
today is HTML day! all around the world, people are gathering to write and celebrate hypertext markup language. i love handcrafted websites! so today is a good one. i woke up way too early, like i tend to do whenever i'm really excited (or nervous1) about something. i thought about using that time to blog, but i wanted to wait until after the meetup to write today's post. instead, i rearranged, printed, and folded a few copies of HTML in the park's cookbook from last year's event. i also pack...| ribo.zone
blaugust 2025, day one| ribo.zone
mostly photos of plants| ribo.zone
a six month changelog recap| ribo.zone
this past weekend, i spent a lot of time looking at plants. i took photos of real plants and uploaded them to inaturalist for the city nature challenge, and i downloaded 3D models of plants and put them into godot for the discmaster jam. touching grass and using the computer are not opposites. you can download cloud storage botanical station on itch.io. real plants Trifolium repensArisaema triphyllumLamium galeobdolonDicentra cucullariaChelidonium majusCardamine impatiensGalium aparinefake pl...| ribo.zone
my homepage has looked basically the same for over two years now, so i figure it's time for a change. let me know what you think!| ribo.zone
my relationship with my website has felt strained lately. i'm embarrasssed to admit that i'm having trouble dealing with the amount of attention it's gotten. i love working on my site and i don't plan to stop, but i still find myself craving another outlet. something that's lower pressure, with no expectations of style. less public performance and more personal utility. last week, i started writing my thoughts into obsidian and generating a site from them with quartz, and i'm pretty happy wit...| ribo.zone
i had too much fun with CSS for you to read this one from your feed reader, so visit my site! happy new year!| ribo.zone
i've returned to a more relaxed pace after the frenzy of weird web october, but i still have a few updates to report for the month. first, a task that's been on my to-do list forever: compression and reorganization. i converted some fonts from .ttf to .woff2 and some images from .jpg to .png, dithered the few that were undithered, then compressed every image on the site with pinga. i also consolidated a handful of separate image folders into one big folder. changing file types and locations m...| ribo.zone
participating in weird web october was really fun and rewarding. it was my first time doing a daily creative challenge, and now i think i understand the appeal. i went into it planning to only make a page or two, but then i got caught in some creative vortex and ended up with pages for 25 out of the 31 themes. instead of the pace1 feeling stressful, it was liberatory. there was no time to fuss with tiny details for weeks or months. there was no time to convince myself out of an idea, either. ...| ribo.zone
This month's new page is the neighborhood, a tribute to my favorite personal websites. I'm nowhere near finished with it, as I have many favorites. The layout is my answer to two questions I've been mulling over for a while: What would a responsive ASCII art scene look like? How do I add more context to my button wall, without putting the buttons in a boring table? For the first part, I knew the text art would have to be modular. Each piece could be no wider than a phone screen, and they'd al...| ribo.zone
Yesterday was the final Queer/Trans Zinefest in Providence. I've attended the past two years, and each time I've left with a rush of creative inspiration and an armful of zines, prints, and other ephemera. It's an event that means a lot to me, and I'm sad that it's over. But that's just the way of things; everything ends. As I write, summer is ending too. The message displayed on the LED matrix signs above the highways in Rhode Island is stuck in my mind: Slow down and savor the end of summer...| ribo.zone
baby's first RSS item| ribo.zone
directory of archived glitch pages| ribo.zone