ΒΆ.Monster | 2026 May 21: ../on/..

2026 May 21: ../on/..
In which I decide to slightly restructure this website to prevent annoyance further down the road, and bore you all to tears about it.

The ever-so-slightest of changes barely noticeable to anyone who might have wandered in of late. What did I do, you ask ever-so-politely: I decided it probably wasn't the best idea to have all my posts in the root folder, regardless of how nice that looks as a URL: pilcrow.monster/20260521 The trouble is, eventually there's really gonna be much too many of them, and I really should know better that it's best practice to have a little dang structure up in this place. Remember I'm hand coding all of this and do not have all the shortcuts; I had to go through every post and edit the relevant HTML. There might be some handy bulk edit in VSCode, ...but that's a bit dicey. I don't have SO many posts; it's safer just to do it by hand and not fuck up everything at once, which is what can happen with those kinda bulk edits.

I needed a folder to put 'em all in. I could call the folder "post" or "blog" or something ultra obvious and mundane. What I like is a little intention. My blog posts are dated such that they will always be in the correct numerical order: year - month - day. That's helpful and very intentional. For that folder, though, for the sake of the URL, I want it to make sense. "Date" was a thought that I threw out quick, but that led to "on".

pilcrow.monster/on/20260521 to read as: Pilcrow Monster, on 2026 May the 21st.

Readable, right? Readability is why I now have an email address that is my name with @ swapped for an a in my name, and the only extraneous character is the period. The top level domain concludes the last three letters of my last name (e.g. Firstn@meLastn.ame). It's neat and tidy and I love it... even if I haven't made much use of it, yet. (The biggest question I had with that was, do I use the @ to just replace the a, or the following t as well? I opted for it just to replace the a; seems less "clever" that way, more direct. Clever is all well and good until it confuses the issue at hand.)

This is the little shit I think about way too much. It's the kinda thing I might've made a big long list of options (but didn't, tho I very much did while coming up with pilcrow.monster), like:

on is neat, concise, and to the point without being something dull like post. If this were a different sort of project it would be fun to play into the "monster" and/or the "pilcrow"-ness of it all. Like devours. That's cute. Doesn't make the most sense for a blog. Not that I'm in the business of stone-cold sense. But! Now that I have the folder set up at all under any name, it would be easier to change it in the future. If I were to change it, I might try to find something along the lines of time-travels-to; whatever is that Pilcrow Monster doing? I could easily swing that way one day.


This is the sort of post I said early on that I would try to avoid: a post about the medium; like how when I journal with pen and paper at a coffee shop, I tend to write about the pen I'm using and if it's working out or not. How the journal's shaping up and what I think I should maybe use it for. What kind of coffee I'm having and the atmosphere of the coffee shop... So this is very much the sort of post that I am prone to. I don't think I've made any promises either way.

The important thing as always is that this is my little corner of the World Wide Web where I can do what I want and post whatever mundane mud I pull outta my head. This is where I think about my projects, and lo and behold: this is a project! This very thing! And so of course I write about it.

And I might just continue calling the internet the World Wide Web.