Highlights tagged "half-ass"

Most of what you make will be fertilizer for the few that turn out great.

—Derek Sivers, How to Live. Highlighted Apr 3, 2025
# creativity # half-ass

Lyric Status

🎨

May 18, 2025 "Imperfectly" by Ani DiFranco It looks a little rough, but it runs okay

Older

📂

Apr 22, 2025 "Tabs" by Lights Nobody's keeping tabs on us

🚪

Apr 19, 2021 "Younger Me" by Brothers Osborne Always dreamed of kicking down the door / What were you waiting for?

💤

Oct 29, 2020 "Coffee Sunday NYT" by Leah Nobel I got my coffee, Sunday, New York Times / Little piece of paradise

🛻

Aug 22, 2020 "Do I Make You Wanna" by Billy Currington Do I make you wanna dance real slow / Go flyin' down a two-lane road

🎙️

May 23, 2020 "Fidelity" by Regina Spektor And it breaks my heart

🌈

Apr 28, 2020 "The Fool" by Ryn Weaver And now I see technicolor

⛵

Feb 4, 2020 "Something to Hold on To" by Emily Warren I'm gonna need something to hold on to

👻

Dec 19, 2019 "needy" by Ariana Grande Good at overthinking with my heart / How you even think it got this far?

💤

Nov 25, 2019 "Bored" by Tessa Violet You think that I could sense a trend

⏰

Nov 23, 2019 "Bored" by Tessa Violet I'm stayin' up too late just so I can stay awake

🍃

Aug 24, 2019 "Bad Ideas" by Tessa Violet Bad ideas, ay / I know where they lead

🌳

"Running with the Boys" (Midnight Machines version) by Lights Forming empires in the shade of trees

⏳

"Wait it Out" by Imogen Heap Backup makeshift life

🕊️

Feb 9, 2019 "Handmade Heaven" by Marina Handmade Heaven

Updates

Sep 18, 2025 Added TinaCMS on top of Astro for easier content management. Added draft functionality to the Astro configuration. Added some new books and highlights. Re-did the styling of the website to be more Earth-y.

Older

May 30, 2025 Briefly added comments and then decided to leave things up to webmentions for now. I'm a sucker for decentralization.

May 29, 2025 Made a little app with val.town to make it easier to manage my highlights. Lots of fun. I'll probably make a guestbook or comments section with it next!

May 26, 2025 Added a webgarden!

May 22, 2025 Found and added a few, ahem, *vintage* cards to the site from the early days of blake.earth. There are still more out there...

May 21, 2025 Got Webmentions working (I think...)! Also finished up the first batch of highlights.

May 17, 2025 Major overhaul! Migrated the site to Astro and added an initial highlights system!

May 3, 2025 Added "It won't be perfect. Do it anyway", refreshed the home page

Apr 16, 2025 Added a few old blog posts from previous versions of the site & brought back the Lyric Status section

Jan 27, 2025 Added "Oats and coffee"

Jan 25, 2025 Added a theme inspired by Frutiger Aero and Vista. It feels calm

Dec 24, 2024 Updated the About page