Until now, I’ve made my edits and adjustments opaquely and without any amount of formality. Which is good, because it helps me avoid getting too locked into an initial impression and because it makes it easier for me to do useful work. But it’s bad because it means I keep a less thorough record and because it means there’s nothing externally holding me (or reminding me to hold myself) accountable for my past decisions. So, from now on I will be keeping a record. I unfortunately do not have any ability to reconstruct any useful record of when I made which edits retroactively, but I’ll make do. Better late than never; stuff only happens when you do it.
I’ve been hesitant to mark this on the site like this instead of just privately in a Notes folder somewhere, but I think this is for the best. For one, it’s the most convenient way to make sure that everything is catalogued, timestamped, and searchable as I make it. For two, I like to think that I value transparency out of principle. Even if I’m considering taking this whole site offline, while it’s up I’m going to do it right. It’s painful to think that this means I’ll be making so many basically meaningless notifications, it feels like I’m begging attention, makes me feel obnoxious. Because of that, I tried to organize the EDIT posts as their own thing so they can be opted in and out of for notifications independent of everything else. Hopefully that works.
So yeah, from now on I’ll have a tiny post for every significant edit. Truly tiny- just a header with a timestamp, really. That’s all.
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