https://blog.rowan.website/ Recent content on The Salt Cellar Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Wed, 01 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.rowan.website/posts/2019-05-01-im-back/ Wed, 01 May 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.rowan.website/posts/2019-05-01-im-back/ GOT THE BLOG BACK most of the posts just have a default image from placekitten (it’s all the same one bc randomness in hugo templates is a hassle) but i put one back up for the morris ring post. https://blog.rowan.website/posts/2018-02-15-what-the-shit-is-the-shadow-dom-anyway/ Thu, 15 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.rowan.website/posts/2018-02-15-what-the-shit-is-the-shadow-dom-anyway/ Shadow DOM: the next frontier in web development. Or something. Or not. Let’s get y’all up to speed. To start with: What the shit is the DOM anyway? https://blog.rowan.website/posts/2018-02-14-why-do-we-need-the-shadow-dom-when-we-have-sass/ Wed, 14 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.rowan.website/posts/2018-02-14-why-do-we-need-the-shadow-dom-when-we-have-sass/ n.b. if you’re not a web developer and aren’t interested in being one, this post may not be for you. lmk if you want a follow-up that’ll try to explain things accessibly! https://blog.rowan.website/posts/2018-02-07-off-silo-blog-and-social-reach/ Wed, 07 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.rowan.website/posts/2018-02-07-off-silo-blog-and-social-reach/ As expected, when I started writing on a standalone blog instead of long facebook posts, interaction with things I said dropped. This is frustrating. I think that I’m saying better things than I was in long unedited Facebook posts. https://blog.rowan.website/posts/2018-02-07-self-promotion/ Wed, 07 Feb 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.rowan.website/posts/2018-02-07-self-promotion/ I hate self-promotion. It feels gross, and it feels like I should be letting people come to me, and it feels like a huge imposition on all of my friends. https://blog.rowan.website/posts/2018-01-19-braindump-on-contra-dancing/ Fri, 19 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.rowan.website/posts/2018-01-19-braindump-on-contra-dancing/ I’ve been in the contra scene since I was born; my parents met at a contra dance, and their main social community is based off of it, so it was kind of unavoidable. https://blog.rowan.website/posts/2018-01-12-the-morris-ring/ Fri, 12 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.rowan.website/posts/2018-01-12-the-morris-ring/ The Morris Ring. An organization that’s been irrelevant to any non-morris dancer, largely irrelevant to any side in the United States, and irrelevant to many dancers in the U. https://blog.rowan.website/posts/2018-01-11-controversial-opinions-part-1/ Thu, 11 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.rowan.website/posts/2018-01-11-controversial-opinions-part-1/ alright. friends. i’ve stayed publicly silent on this great debate for long enough. i can’t in good conscience stay silent any longer. i will warn you, though, my views may not match the black and white painting of the issue that you’re familiar with. https://blog.rowan.website/posts/2018-01-08-yet-another-explanation-of-mastodon/ Mon, 08 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.rowan.website/posts/2018-01-08-yet-another-explanation-of-mastodon/ The situation: you’ve seen people talking about Mastodon. Maybe you’re intrigued, maybe you’re not. Either way, when they’ve tried to explain it to you, you’ve been confused, turned off, or maybe even a little angry that they won’t shut up about it. https://blog.rowan.website/posts/2018-01-08-youth-trad-song-weekend-2k18/ Mon, 08 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.rowan.website/posts/2018-01-08-youth-trad-song-weekend-2k18/ another yts, come and gone. i remember at the first couple of yts weekends, i went to workshops and led songs and generally participated a ton. https://blog.rowan.website/posts/2018-01-08-yts-2k18-sound/ Mon, 08 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.rowan.website/posts/2018-01-08-yts-2k18-sound/ jesus fuckin christ y’all i was so stressed on friday important note: i don’t wish to cast any blame or aspersions on the yts committee. https://blog.rowan.website/posts/2017-12-27-thoughts-on-the-last-jedi/ Wed, 27 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.rowan.website/posts/2017-12-27-thoughts-on-the-last-jedi/ or: since when do i cry at star wars movies (spoilers galore) the porgs were a delightful minor detail1. i cried in the first five minutes corrollary: carrie fisher appears in the first five minutes i really enjoyed this movie kylo ren: just another shirtless mediocre man yawn. https://blog.rowan.website/posts/2017-12-26-happy-christmas/ Tue, 26 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.rowan.website/posts/2017-12-26-happy-christmas/ love, rowan and nicki https://blog.rowan.website/posts/2017-12-24-mastodon-and-coops/ Sun, 24 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.rowan.website/posts/2017-12-24-mastodon-and-coops/ or: why social.coop gets it right i write more about my relationship with mastodon here i am sure i’m not the first to write about how there’s a direct link between the federated social web and cooperative business ideologies. https://blog.rowan.website/posts/2017-12-24-why-pylodon-exists/ Sun, 24 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.rowan.website/posts/2017-12-24-why-pylodon-exists/ first off: mastodon is amazing and i’m so impressed by @gargon’s tenacity and brilliance in bringing it to life that being said, the biggest weakness that i see with mastodon is how intertwined the frontend and backend are. https://blog.rowan.website/posts/2017-12-23-why-i-join-mastodon/ Sat, 23 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.rowan.website/posts/2017-12-23-why-i-join-mastodon/ I’ve joined Mastodon four times. The first was in October or November 2016, on mastodon.social, when @shel first joined and told all of her friends; I stuck around for a bit, but only had two or so friends on it (@shel and @ebeth), and I had a large social group on Twitter, so i went back to ‘birdsite’ (Twitter, per bits of the fediverse).