the fucked up way i've been coding
(also what the hell even is file management)

Welcome to the hell of my own making, and the longest title to a log I've done to date.

Ironic, considering this is going to be the shortest to date, also.

I have been doing a lot of my coding lately at work - there's perks. Double monitor, larger monitors, the ability to have my six million search tabs open as I try to fix an issue I created for myself by hodgepodging my code together. For all the perks, it also means I'm coding away from my main hub and unable to use brackets.io the way I usually do. So, to be bluntly honest about how my methods of making never are the most efficient, here's my process:

• snatch code from some other page on my site via the neocities editor
• put that code into a w3schools "try it yourself" box which is 100% not how that service is meant to be used
• upload files into my neocities (images, fonts, etc. whatever I'm using that's "new")
• I do prefer editing my images at work
• idk what black magic is in Microsoft Paint but it is the best image down-sizer I've ever used
• I do not have a better alternative on my personal mac
• this devastates me and is 70% of the reason why I do webmaster at work
• go through the painstaking process of adding the full link for images so I can see them
• tweak ad infinitum
• so much staring at css
• so much confusion about javascript
• so much waffling between if I want every page to have custom css or if I want cohesion
• recently I've settled on being consistently inconsistent, as always
• plus, it's more fun if everything is different all of the time, right?
• right?
• this is the creative process, I remind myself, I enjoy it
• if I'm working on something over the course of a few days it gets even worse
• I save my WIP code by placing it into my notion in a code block
• this is not fool-proof and I should not be doing it
• I should be coding at home and not at work to begin with
• but how else can I kill time?
• repeating the copy-to-w3 step from the beginning every day I'm working on it
• post to neocities by copying and pasting from w3 into the neo editor
• shorten all the links to remove the extra root I had to add earlier
• in the process of this I've artifically inflated my hits because w3 is reloading my elements every time
• but at least I am making something

Another unfortunate side-effect of this process is that I am truly terrified of what's going to happen if I ever have to do an overhaul of my site. I'm trying to plan for the future and keep folders nested in a way that makes sense without generating clutter but dear god. Feels like staring into the abyss for real. I want to learn how other people do it, but also if the system is working, don't try to fix it?

Anyway, here's a visual reminder for myself:

LEARN FILE MANAGEMENT OR PERISH