4/8/24

Bought two bookshelves from Books and Bookshelves today. They're an amazing used book and comic shop that also sells custom-made wood shelves and chairs. The two I got today are unfinished pine. I think they're pine (I forgot to ask) since the wood smelled like pine needles when I sprayed the surface to raise the grain before sanding.

I'm hoping that I have enough remaining poly topcoat (I use General Finishes') from when I finished my bed frame.

Right now I'm thinking about where the best place to host my thoughts (blogs? posts? notes? logs?) would be, since I'm not sure the form they'll even take. If I'm doing short notes like the one you're reading—kevin.garden/notes makes sense. But, if I want to write longer-form formatted entries, proper markdown support and some off-the-shelf framework would be better than anything I can come up with. God forbid I burn out before even having written any entries, through attempting to write my own markdown -> static site generator. Oh, and being able to inline images would also be very nice.

1/3/25

Happy new year

12/31/25

Happy last day of 2025.

I've given my neglected blog (https://blog.kevin.garden) a slight facelift and christened it with its first proper entry, a recipe for almond sugar cookies.

Plus various style & backend rendering improvements...

• Wikipedia style references and backlinks! Aria labels match too..
• Added colors brown and magenta, from my other sites
• Fix edge cases with empty filenames/slugs, empty title, etc.
• Arbitrary front matter properties are easier to set and no longer require updating code

Also, the reason I haven't been updating the Finder screenshot is because I upgraded to Tahoe and file icons look ugly to me.

1/2/26

Happy new year.

My newfound energy has me continuing to work on my "blog".

I've moved the url from blog.kevin.garden to p.kevin.garden. It's shorter, which I like, and it also looks more visually interesting. I chose the letter "p" because it creates the acronym "p.k.g" from the url. p.k.g is short for "package".

• .pkg (package) is "a filename extension used for several file formats that contain packages of software and other files" (Wikipedia).
• I like the word package.
• I use software packages.
• I enjoy receiving packages.
• For four months, I kept every package that I received in the mail. For each package, I cut out and scanned every graphical element found on it (shipping labels, codes, stickers).