Hey! It’s time for another link roundup! But first, some housekeeping.

Cohost Minnesota Wake at Minnehaha Falls at 3pm

That’s today y’all! The link for the wake is here. Please come down! I’m gonna be there! This is just a quick refresher for everyone here to actually go!

Geoffrey Bunting on the Rolling Stone: The Digital Orphans of ‘Pokémon’

Honestly, Pokémon is super important to me. Anything that takes a close look at the games will make me feel warm and fuzzy. I will use my link shares as an excuse to shove Pokémon down your throat and I will not feel sorry about it.

Studio MillMint: Photovolumes

MillMint is a long running website/worldbuilding project I’ve been following for the past 7 years maybe that’s about 40% thinking too much about guns and military stuff and 60% talking about weird fictional versions of things I actually care about. And trains. It recently put out an update about this world’s fucked up computers. Please read about them.

Eleanor Konic: On what it means to not have time

Tim is right that if this were a big enough priority for me, I could get up at four in the morning every day and work in a quiet, locked office with no distractions. I might end up divorced, but I could do it if it was my #1 top priority.

The reality is that it’s not, and that’s okay.

I’ve spent way too much time in college soaking my brain in some total productivity bullshit, and it’s very refreshing to read a critique of this stuff that approaches it by acknowledging that it’s feasible and would be more productive, but is it a better way to live your life?

From Jason: Any Technology Indistinguishable From Magic is Hiding Something

The internet doesn’t run on scattered clouds and rushing streams. It takes heaps of fibered glass and twisted steel to send a DM to that cute French boy from your year abroad.

As the saying goes, the cloud is just somebody else’s computer. This essay explores some of the problems that come up when you remember that someone owns that shit and places profits over people.

Blake Watson: HTML for People

It is an indisputable fact that cohost shutting down meant that a larger portion of the people in my feeds are going to be computer touchers, and that’s really sad. I don’t really know what to do to help with that, but at the bare minimum, here’s a guide on HTML made for people who aren’t computer touchers. I wanna see more of y’all in my feeds! Share your links! The website section in my comments form isn’t for nothing! I actually do check the websites in there!

Thanks for checking this stuff out!

Once again, come to the cohost wake at 3 pm, and please leave a comment below, or email me at evie@ewie.online. And I have a special email for asks at ask@ewie.online. Feel free to send some asks and they'll probably show up on the site unless you ask me to not put it there! Just like cohost! See y'all!

i did it! i caught up on all my rss stuff. i fell behind a lot in september due to cohost shutting down and me having to focus a lot of my work on making my website. i figured out what rss client im gonna use (it’s lire), and i backread on everything added when i added the rss feeds. i’m all good now! things will definitely be good forever now.

hype! hope it goes well

from https://belarius.neocities.org/bulletin-board-nonsense/post/hella-ghosts-in-all-these-shells/

netrunner mentioned!!!

i need to figure out a better system for this

I’ve been seeing some people in my circle doing link roundups, and I thought it’d be nice to join in. I have such a huge backlog of links to work through and maybe this could be a good way to get through all of them. I’m thinking of only doing five links per roundup, but let me know if you think that’s too many or too few. That’s enough waffling for now, here’s the links:

Austin Walker: i have been trying to find some words for cohost's final days for about a week now

I don’t have much to say here besides wow Austin is really good with words in a way that I am as impressed by as I am envious of.

Indie Hell Zone: Tangle Tower

This is just as much a recommendation for Tangle Tower as it is a recommendation for the review talking about it. Tangle Tower is a complete delight, and feels like the closest you can get to a modern Professor Layton. I thoroughly recommend it. Oh and also this review talking about it too, of course.

iA: Our Android App is Frozen in Carbonite

I’m as much of an Android hater as the next apple fangirl (they just don’t have the same rich indie scene as apple does, and every android-native app I’ve seen feels like it hates itself), but this whole story about iA Writer’s endless expensive struggle to keep up with Google’s demands all to let Android users write to files in their Google Drive leaves me feeling more validated by that decision than ever. That is, until Apple makes some sort of dumb decision too that screws over its developers. Also, this isn’t the only story I’ve seen this week of someone shutting down their android app because of Google’s weird shifting requirements. A second developer has said that they’re also throwing in the towel with Android.

Laura Michet: Biking Catalina Island

As someone who has also biked Catalina Island (i was a kid then, so not by choice), there’s so much in here that brings back memories. I’m out here looking at the pictures thinking, “I’ve been here! I’ve seen this!” It’s nice to read a story about someone doing a thing I did as a kid and barely remember so I can be reminded I had a life somewhere amongst the foggy memories.

Zach Leat: Eleventy 3.0 is now available

This one is for everyone who’s hosting their blog with Eleventy. Version 3.0 just dropped! It’s now made using ES Modules, which is the modern way of being able to import stuff in Javascript. The migration process seems to be pretty simple, and it means you can start sprinkling import in your code instead of having to use require(). If you want to someone spill ink about its upgrading process, cohost alumni beeps wrote a whole thing about its site changelog.

That’s all!

I had a great time doing this, and I’m really looking forward to the next one. Feel free to leave a comment below, or email me at my new website-specific email at evie@ewie.online. Don’t worry, it just goes straight into my normal mailbox I didn’t pay anything for this. I also now have a special email for asks at ask@ewie.online, which is an idea I stole from nex3. If you send any questions in to that email, I will answer them on the site! Just like cohost.

This whole time I’ve imagined him looking like a weird bald sweaty white guy with a face that’s too red for his own good.

This is right on the heels of me being completely mistaken with how I imagined Tim Walz looking. I basically just imagined Tim Walz as looking like Matt Mullenwag and Matt Mullenwag as looking like Tim Walz.

she’s so scrunkly in this one

source: Hope You’re Happy, Lemon

Good morning y’all. Cohost has now shut down and so here’s my inaugural “I am now posting here and only here” post.

I’m from the future and I don’t know what cohost is. What happened?

Cohost was a website that ran from 2022 to 2024. It was probably the best social media site ever made, and now it’s gone. Unfortunately, that’s the world we live in now, and so I have to do something new. That something new will be this site! Welcome to Evie On→Line. It’s by me, evie! I live in your computer.

What’s the plans for the future of this site?

Hoo boy do I have a lot planned. First off, the technical stuff:

• Fix comments
• Add a like button. Don’t worry, it won’t have numbers
• Make sure the styles are functional. Everything is currently held together with duct tape and a dream and I have enough CSS knowledge to do better than that.
• Improve the markup.

Now, the actual content stuff. There’s a lot in the works:

• Link roundups! I have literally thousands of links saved on different bookmarking services. My goal is to unify them and read them and send the best to all y’all. What’s the point in hoarding links if I won’t be sharing any?
• App reviews. I think a lot about apps and services in stuff. Too much. I didn’t talk about it on cohost enough and I regret not being more annoying about it. It’s all dumb but it’s dumb stuff I care about a lot!
• A certain article I gotta work on.
• General stuff. I have a lot of miscellaneous ideas for things and they’re gonna be posted on here. Ideas are free and I’d be a sucker if I wasn’t taking advantage of that value.
• Posts! I will never stop posting and I’m gonna make sure that holds true here. I’m planning on adding custom styles to posts with certain tags to intentionally style them in a way that’s similar to cohost posts. The posts will still be bad and they still will be aplenty.

Anyways I guess that’s all. Feel free to leave a comment below and you can always email me at ewie@omg.lol. Cohost forever.

also for all yall wondering. comments will come soon dw 💗 i’m working on it. prolly gotta also make a better system for avoiding name conflicts than just naming every file myself