I'm a Bearblog maximalist
Dear Bearblog neighbors,
I write today to confess that I, unlike many of you, am unfortunately a Bearblog maximalist.
Just this past week, I had an idea. It went like this:
I liked Katherine Yang's little thesis statements on the right side of her website, so I wanted to see if I could achieve something similar on Bearblog
Building off the short-form content feed, I experimented with styling posts as tiny notes on the side
It turned out pretty cute, and I thought, what's stopping me from making my whole homepage just a series of tiny notes? So I went ahead and built tiny notes everywhere
Then I thought, hey, this could be adapted into a Polaroid-style image gallery, and I went and built that as well
And then I thought, well, what if I don't want these to be feeds of separate posts, but simple Markdown lists? So I created Polaroid-style image gallery (static), tiny notes everywhere (static), and tiny notes on the side (static)
After all this, it became clear to me that there are so many ways we can style posts, notes, and images — so the next thing I'm going to do is clean this all up and set up a skeleton, a base that's easy to duplicate and customize
But this didn't end there. In addition to the above, I was curious if I could achieve a table of contents-style post list, the kind with leading dots, à la Manu's website. Voilà.
You see? I can't seem to stop.
What am I even going to do with all this? Probably nothing, but this was so much fun to build. I loved that this was all possible with out-of-the-box Bearblog features and some CSS.
I hope you will find it in your hearts to forgive me for my lack of restraint and inability to embrace the minimalist spirit of Bearblog.
Your neighbor,
Sylvia