some blog updates & a thank you to blogs that inspire me

i probably spent around eight hours from the last couple of days tinkering around my blog. note that they were weekdays. i barely slept but i thank this specific hyperfixation of overhauling my blog for keeping my sanity intact. i said i wanted some change in my last post, retracted it, but then ended up doing so anyway. the voices in my head had many complaints about my blog (that i share too much, that i write either like a robot or a hyperventilating typewriter — there’s no in between, that my color palette is too happy for my depressed state, etc etc). turns out going to your css page and pressing cmd + a then delete could shut them all up. here are some changes i did in the past two days: as mentioned, stripped off my archie theme1 and started over settled on a simple / basic color palette using the bearming theme manually changed all my published posts to have lowercase texts2. i know, i could’ve just used text transform. but that proved to be too complicated for posts that…