Added Tolly’s notes on “Ten Years of October and Soviet Literature”, 1927 essay by leading Soviet art critic A.K. Voronsky. Good to see him studying literature again.
Post #140: Becoming a better Giovanni

2020.10.20

Post #139: From the Depths of Dark Water: The decay of the Japanese home and an elegy to motherhood

2020.10.19

Post #138: How are the kids?

2020.10.15

Post #137: Akihiko goes shopping at Costco

2020.10.14

Post #135: Sketches of Colorado, by Anatolij.
Improved flexbox CSS.
Removed Mastodon link from the Gallery. We closed that account long ago—it’s been so long since we’ve touched social media, ever.
Post #136: The Living You, by Anatolij

2020.10.12

Post #132: On Colorado Springs
Post #133: The Statue of Spartacus, by Himself
Post #134: Galatea, by Anatoliij
Added line breaks between the months in the Full Archive.

2020.10.11

Post #131: Amidst the fire

2020.10.06

Post #130: Here’s what working in a hospital in America is like: Active Shooter Response in a Health-care Setting

2020.10.05

Post #129: 2020 August Vocabulary (+11 words)

2020.10.04

Post #128: The Phantom of the Grass, by Nova

2020.10.03

Post #127: Some good news.

2020.10.02

Post #126: October Thoughts

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2020.09.30

Post #124: Lack of updates
Post #125: Trans masculinisation and the lesser-known aspects being FTM
Made slight adjustment to the cursor when hovering over a link; cactus arms are drawn together.

2020.09.27

Post #123: Losing half your income after a family member goes to prison

2020.09.23

Post #122: “Life unworthy of life”

2020.09.20

Got a custom domain, baldorastation.art, off NameCheap.com.
Added the Contact Us page.
Added Neocities.org and Contact Us to the site footer.

2020.09.11

Post #121: The Kind Detective
Added Game Design to Links.
Started work on Giovanni’s Cookbook.

2020.09.07

Post #120: The Case of the Academia.edu Mentions

2020.09.06

Post #118: Some notes on the hospital during the pandemic; 188,000 official US deaths
Post #119: My Simple Friend

2020.09.02

Post #117: Axel, by Anatolij
More work on the Wardrobe.
Made the scorpion in the favicon somewhat lighter.

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2020.08.31

Added Dig Deeper: How to choose a browser for everyday use to Other Useful Places.

2020.08.30

Post #116: 3-Month Anniversary: Happy Birthday, Website!

2020.08.29

Post #115: Half-asleep Poem, by Anatolij
Added more notes to Art as the Cognition of Life, the chapter “Notes on Artistic Creativity”.
Began adding Open Graph Protocol metadata to the website.
Changed “Text-only” to “Full List” on all the archive pages.
Added links to Twitter Cards, Facebook’s Sharing Debugger, and the Twitter Card Validator to Web Design Resources.
Refined the flame shape of the favicon.
Added custom cursors based on the Little Cactus set by SnowflakePixie.

2020.08.28

Added Open Graph Protocol to Web Design Resources.
Tolly went crazy renewing and reorganising his wardrobe. Started building his page on it.

2020.08.27

Post #114: Noroi: Reverence for the truth, and the debasement of Japanese media ★★★☆

2020.08.26

Salvaged a few more poems from the old My Love and My Favourite Things, both by Ant.

2020.08.24

Post #113: Some notes on art, writing, and life by Yumeka

2020.08.19

Updated the Authors page with profiles on Akihiko, Blast Ant, Iseul, Julia Verne, Nova, Yumeka, and Giovanni.
Expanded Bedi’s bio on the Authors page.
Post #??: A COVID-19 Summer: Donating blood, people eating outside. I’ll get proper post numbers as soon as I’m finished publishing old journal entries to the website.
Navbar between the Site Info (About), Authors, and Site History added to those pages.
Humour section added to the Links.
Blocked our first Neocities site! Guess that’s a milestone.

2020.08.18

Added the sideboxlong class, which has a darker background than sidebox. The white text on it is easier to read.
Post #??: Ten days of protests in Belarus

2020.08.17

Added more older 2020 journal entries predating the website.
Added GIBIATE PROJECT to Cool sites.
Added Arsh, Po-ju, and Shinachiku to Porn sites.
Added new speaker colours: #0072b4, #700070.
Modified existing speaker colours: #944d74, #2f429c, #9e4b37, #00949c.
Added page number links to the bottom of the archive pages as well.

2020.08.16

Post #??: Silhouettes: Lip-reading
Added older 2020 posts predating the website.
Added the section on “The Little Prince’s fox” to the About page.

2020.08.11

Added more pre-2020 Journal entries to the site, including by Giovanni.
New speaker shift span class for myself, color #b86c5b.
Short story: Philop the Tree, by Anatolij
Added horizontal rules and Back to top links between years in the text-only archives.

2020.08.10

Post #25: August 2020 Vocabulary (+9 words)
Post #26: Tolly has a temper tantrum

2020.08.02

Added the Metal category to the Links page.
Added McKechnies - Diseases and Medical Terms to Other Useful Places.

2020.08.01

Added the Notes page and its sidebar button.
Began adding notes on Art as the Cognition of Life: Selected Writings of A.K. Voronsky, 1911–1936.
Set the min-height of primary div class to 500.
Added Seraphinelle to Cool sites.

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2020.07.30

Added Imagine, A Center for Coping with Loss to Other Useful Places.
Added pre-2020 writings, many of them to do with Grief. As a result, the post numbers mentioned previously in this Site History (e.g. The death of a crow being Post #14) are now obsolete.
Post #24: A Georgian lawyer prior to the Civil War: “The world can never give up slavery”
Wrote flexbox CSS for sideboxes (e.g. year-month archives).
Added new thumbnail templates. In addition to the original 676×198 slices, posts can also have 400×200 and 424×198 header images.

2020.07.28

Post #14: The death of a crow
Added “Banana Flower” (landing page for Lusty Lest’s Banana House) to the Gallery.
Added The Adversity Within (archived) to Other Useful Places.

2020.07.10

Post #13: June 2020 Vocabulary (+11 words)
Review ★s now have an explanation of their rating when you hover over them.
Changed the ★★☆☆ From “Recommended” to “Limited recommendation”

2020.07.09

Post #12: Nanashi no Game: A history of lost potential ★★☆☆

2020.07.02

Added the assets I produced for higanhothouse.neocities.org to the Gallery.
Added link to Baraag.net profile (erotica Mastodon instance) to the Gallery.

2020.07.01

Added Online Etymology Dictionary to Other Useful Places.
Finished adding all older works to the Gallery.
New 🔞 painting added, “Odalisque sketch”.
Added the favicon.

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2020.06.29

Post #11: Love Poem
Adjusted bottom margin of subtitles under titles

2020.06.28

Post #10: Silhouettes: The white, Thai Martian
Added Brackets to Web Design Resources.
Added Dr Yi-Hui Chen‘s website to Cool Sites.

2020.06.26

Post #7: Black clashes and reconciliation
Post #8: For Didi (poem)
Happily surprised! Looks like it’ll be more than just Ansel and me writing for the website. Also, I didn’t know he could write haiku…
Built the Literature page, with Bedi’s poem as the first entry. What a surprise!
Post #9: Train to Busan: South Korea, covered in blood ★★★☆
Added four new tags, Haiku, Horror, Literature, and Relations.
Added review ★ ratings explanation to the About page.

2020.06.23

Post #6: More death, garlic, and one death
Added horizontal rules between post previews.
Added new three tags, COVID-19, Gardening, and Personal.

2020.06.10

Post #5: On the old men I’ve met
Added new tag, Silhouettes.
Post #4: May 2020 Vocabulary (+5 words)
Added new tag, Vocabulary.

2020.06.09

Tried making a stylesheet for mobile devices (again) and gave up (again). I just don’t give a fuck about a condensed layout that removes the annotations.
Improved the navigation of all Archive pages.
Post #3: The Iron Flood: The Battleship Potemkin of literature ★★★★
Added three new tags: Books, History, and USSR.

2020.06.08