Hey I wrote something
So I'm pretty bad when it comes to posting longer things that I've written, mostly because I can never get them to a stage where I'm happy with them. You may have noticed, then, that the Writing part of my portfolio is pretty (very, really) sparse. Well it's a little less empty now! I took the UP Express for the first time the other day and was compelled to write about it. I really like the style of the "Talk of the Town" section in The New Yorker, so I kind of went with that. Check it out!
Posting it also turned out to be an interesting exercise in working with SquareSpace. (Aughh, I know, web dev bootcamp and I didn't build my own site??? I had it before I knew anything, ok? And it's really good. And why reinvent the wheel?) ANYWAY, turns out they don't have a strikethrough effect built into their text editor (which is dumb), so I had to put in a custom code block and through a "<del>" around what I wanted to strike out. But then the spacing for the whole paragraph was off because the code block wanted to throw a margin of something like 28px on the bottom, in addition to the regular paragraph margin. (So there was an extra big gap.) I tried to adjust it with inline styles to no avail, but making a custom class seemed to work fine. (Incidentally, I had to use the class again here to allow myself to embed the "<del>," that is, in the code style seen above, within this paragraph.) Not greatly technical, but it's cool to be able to fix these things when they pop up. Makes me wonder what it would be like being a SquareSpace developer...