This isn't my first time starting a blog that lacks particular direction…but this time I want to be directionless with a little more intention than before!
My longest-running blog is a personal WordPress site I started in 2012, where I've posted occasionally over the years. At one point I made an experimental offshoot called Zibaldone, a blog category intended to capture more unfinished fun ideas I wanted to share.
(I actually bought the zibaldon.es domain, too, for a different purpose, but never really used it…but I digress…)
I posted a few notes from my archives, but didn't keep it up; partly too much friction and partly running out of things to publish. But it was fun! I wrote about things like "virtual pop-up shops" and "subscription psychology" and "pocket rocks" and "types of books" and "notes on worlding".
If many of those were idea fragments and research notes, I'm thinking Scraps! will be more…appreciations; celebrations.
Perhaps also: ideas I want to see realized, experiments I want to encourage people to try, things I'm trying to figure out and think through aloud — basically what I think blogging should be, but often have trouble bringing myself to actually write about.
And furthermore: applying new lenses or ways of exploring / engaging with things I've loved / considered for a long time.
All the while: trying to keep it light, casual, and social — the latter increasingly so as we add more social features to Leaflet!
🚧🏗️ leaflet block construction zone 🏗️🚧
hello, easter eggs ahead, we are testing subpages…✨
I am a subpage on this post
I contain more content…on a subpage…
I will open when you click me…
Welcome!
wait does the subpage work?!
new subpage
I am another subpage hi hello with more stuff! oh yes here we are okay I have some more things in my second paragraph I wonder what this will look like when it's all nicely published hmm hmm hmmm :)
and that's it for now! canvas pages still to come :)
ah…okay now testing! here's a small one:
hi I'm a small lil canvas
what do you think of me? do you like me? do you love me?
and here's a big one:
yo I'm a big guy
hi I'm a subpage in a canvas
hey cool! what up!
aka canvas, expanded width
hi one more canvas let's see…
test canvas!
hey does this publish? let's find out
and…let's test new atproto polls!
what do you think about this poll?
another new poll…
^ha we should maybe disallow publishing polls with no options
hey, here are some buttons!
testing checklists…
hi I'm a list item
I'm an unchecked list
and I'm checked complete!
a leaflet poem:
the leaves of lathes
keep turning
from wreaths and scythes
and fires — burning
we bring alive
the scene
revisions of
new visions — green
crisp as chips
bright as night
alive as knives
falling
hi hello @awarm.space @cozylittle.house I see your profiles now!
what's up Scraps! yay I made that!
@awarm.space yo do you see this one?
this is me: @schlage.town hi :)
and here is Jinjin: @jinjin.bsky.social
Here is some regular text
Here is some large text!
Here is some small text…
🚧🏗️ end leaflet test zone 🏗️🚧