Monthly Projects: May 2026

02 Jun, 2026

New segment! In the same vein as Monthly Media I want to document what projects I have worked on in a given month. Now that I have a microblog I'm comfortable using, I have a record to use as reference.

Web Weaving (latest -> earliest)

Fixed desktop RSS reader
- For some reason, my RSS reader on my desktop (RSS Guard) was glitching. Reinstalling didn't work but fortunately there is a text version that did work. Hooray!
OC Profiles archive
- It was the end of the month and I wanted to do a quick thing. With the experience of the previous archive and the help of quality coffee, I whipped this site up! Holy shit I do not regret upgrading my bearblog account. These little sites are so fast and fun to make. I also made a backup of the posts to my git account on the cloud and on my backup drive.
May website update
- This month's update is quite tame. I almost wasn't sure if I had something I could add to my site. I just added some more personal sites and web dev resources and changed the link on the nav to redirect to the new main blog.
Ina11 Walker Translations archive
- This one... this archive. It's been on my list since the beginning of the year. I wanted to work on it during March Meta Matters but I barely got a few posts done. It was so monotonous, so boring. Thankfully, now that I have an upgraded bearblog account, I can create Markdown-first sites in no time. But because something happened to those first backups, I had to download the images to the posts I had already archived.
- I found the motivated to get this done after I upgraded my bearblog account which meant I could make more than one blog. I wanted to make a little site outside my main site because these translation are grossly poor quality and the commentary is high-key embarrassing so I wanted to have the best of both worlds, having these translations available on the internet without them tied to my name. Bearblog makes it really easy to create sites because the content is in Markdown which is exactly what I wanted. I also didn't have to worry about creating a repo, committing changes, finding a template yada yada yada. Another feature of this little project is that it's part of the public domain. The screenshots are free to use and share without attribution and the rights of the series superseed the effort I put in making this site. I also took the opportunity to test bearblog's archive and uploaded it to my git account for anyone to download. It's literally free real state!
- Last but not least, I wrote a post mortem about this little project.
- Link to site: ina11walkertranslations.bearblog.dev
- Link to archive: git.32bit.cafe/ArimaMary/ina11-walker-translations
Crosspost blog posts and update links on main copy
- This one got done at the same time I was migrating blog hosts. Everything was everywhere all at one until a few hours later when I started posting... Now I need to crosspost again ughhhh.
Moved main blog, 18+ blog, and microblog to new host
- Oh ho ho, was I excited to do this! My test run of bearblog gave great results so I decided to move all of my blogs here. First had to update the masterlists on Obsidian for the longform blogs then add all posts to bearblog. Because bearblog is Markdown-first, for the posts without images, I just pasted the text. Adding images are always a mild annoyance to me but it wasn't hard to. What took me the most is the CSS. Apart from adding my color scheme, I made the images responsive and played around with the layout and footer text. I didn't write a post mortem for this so I'm having a hard time remembering the process. I think at first I tried to merge the blog with the microblog but ended up keeping them separate again. I decided to use the Sakura theme for my main blog with light mode color scheme and Sakura Vader theme for my 18+ site with dark mode. To further differentiate them, the 18+ blog post list has a border with rounded corners with a shadow greatly inspired by aid's blog. Otherwise the stylesheet is the exact same. I hope with this I can update my 18+ blog more often. I wanna talk about my OCs! Last but not least, the microblog takes after both blogs using both color schemes and the rounded border with shadows.
- A tentative question might be, "well that's good and all but will you actually update it?" And to that I say bruh, I posted eight articles in twelve days. That's a bit more than half a blog post per day! I also, y'know, don't buy shit I'm not sure I'm not gonna use.

Writing (latest -> earliest)

The blog posts! I am SPEED!!! elmo fire gif

I also added from posts from the same book where the Inazuma Walker translations were at. So I guess in total there are twelve new posts huehuehue (ง ื▿ ื)ว

Community

Ina11 Pride Event
- I've really really really been wanting to host an event for the Inazuma Eleven fandom. Tumblr shot itself in the foot a couple of months ago and there's more fans on Pillowfort now. I hoped to bring them together with an event. Brainstorming was such a drag but thankfully I got it all thought out before the end of the month. The event is basically a prompthaton with a prompt gathering period and a creation period. Yeah, that's it! Oh I also found this really helpful guide by Arrow on running fandom events. Link. Call for prompts is out. I shared the post on a couple of places.
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth
- This event is an official celebration of the site's anniversary. It was my first time taking part. Mostly, I microblogged, donated some points, and bought some to get myself a paid account for a month. It was fun!
32bit.cafe email
- I wanted to test this as a replacement for Proton Mail. Unfortunately it doesn't have what I need to make it useful. I can't create tags. It crashes every few days so I decided to switch back to using Proton Mail but only for my social networks (eg. Mastodon, Pillowfort, AO3, Dreamwidth).
Signed up for Sakurasora.social
- This is an ATProto PDS the admin of my Mastodon instance is working on. After a failed attempted at existing at Bluesky, I feel much for comfortable with my posts living in a PDS hosted somewhere whose rules aren't governed by rich people and AI. I'm using it to connect to with Ina11 mutuals I met on Tumblr so my use is really controlled. Whoever I want to follow outside of that I can just add to my RSS feed and that's it. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ . As for the site itself I uh... don't like the vibes which I expected so after the initial shiny new thing syndrome went away I'm more interested in learning about ATProto than spending time on there. I won't share the account publicly for the aforementioned reasons. Really struggle to do Inazuma posting there even.
Helped out a mutual make her site more accessible by adding an RSS feed.
- So happy when someone comes to the small web world (o^▽o) .

Wow this was a lot to write. If you read everything or certain sections, good job and thank you!

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