A friend of mine was asking about the effect I use for the social media icons in the sidebar here. I told him that's personal and I would prefer he not bring up such iniquitous filth in the polite company of my daughter. When I realized he was talking about my website, I figured I would apologize by writing up a quick article about it and some of the caveats I ran into.
Read moreWell now, this is different, yea? For those of you coming here expecting to see the Mavenous online dictionary, my sincerest apologies. I've decided to take Maveno.us on a new journey. I have kept a backup of the old dictionary site, and, with enough requests/threats, I will put it back up in a different capacity. Again, my deepest apologies.
For those of you that know me as a programmer, this is probably what you expected to see if ever you've ventured onto this site. I've felt like the mechanic who's car is always broke down due to there only being 19 hours in the day I'm allowed to remain awake. I've gone through literally 20+ designs for this site, and finally realized that my OCD will never allow me to be completely happy with any design I come up with, so I need to go a different route.
I've decided to make a compromise and put up what I have, and create a series of articles which chronicles the progression of this site.
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