What this content actually looks like when beautified

 Want to know what this content actually looks like when beautified?

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Just visit:

La Gxoja Blog | Discussion on Code and Content Written For Delphic Ventures

See how neat that looks?

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Blogger is outdated technology. I just keep my blogs around so that I can feed it to my A.I. and do interesting things.

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🧵Blog Post (n+2): I Do Swear I Know What I'm Doing

 

🧵Blog Post (n+2): I Do Swear I Know What I'm Doing

I do swear I know what I'm Doing.

To emphasize that, here is a TL;DR

TL;DR - I have created many beautiful websites, including this one below:

👉 www.fulmo.live

Well, at least, as of July 15, 2025, it is beautiful.

And this one too:

The Joy Philosophy

Go on. Click it.

Yes, go ahead, give it a click.

Admire the crisp design. The clean, modern layout.

Notice how not a single pixel was sacrificed to the gods of corporate beige.

🧵Blog Post (n+1): I Swear I Know What I'm Doing

 

🧵Blog Post (n+1): I Swear I Know What I'm Doing

Sometimes people stumble onto Delfik Orakle and assume I have no design taste.
Fair.

But unfair.

Because — and I say this with all due humility — I’ve also created websites like this:
👉 www.fulmo.live

Go on. Click it.
Marvel at the clean lines. The modern layout. The absence of beige-induced sadness.

Yes, I built that.
Yes, I also built this.

Let’s call Delfik Orakle my digital equivalent of a lovingly preserved vintage sweater: slightly itchy, strangely shaped, but full of character.

🧵Blog Post #n: Proof That I Do, In Fact, Have Taste

 

Just for the record:
I can design beautiful websites. Really.

Here’s one example I’m quite proud of:
👉 La Gxoja Filozofio

Clean. Thoughtful. Not even a hint of mauve regret.
See? I’m not entirely trapped in Blogger 2009. I visit the modern web occasionally. I just don’t live there.

Meanwhile, Delfik Orakle and This Here Blog remains my scrappy digital cave. A little dusty, slightly haunted — but home.

🧵Blog Post (m): I Ran a Debugger on My Blog. It Cried.

 🧵Blog Post (m): I Ran a Debugger on My Blog. It Cried.

Or: Segmentation Fault in Aesthetics.

Let’s get one thing straight:
I do not entirely blame Blogger.

I mean, yes, the template system was probably built in the same era as Netscape Navigator and emotional repression, but still — I’ve poked around the HTML. I’ve seen the horrors. The <b:widget id='BlogArchive1' locked='true'> that refuses to die. The CSS rules that override themselves. The JavaScript files that might actually be haunted.

So I did what any responsible engineer would do.
I ran a debugger on the front-end.

Result:

Error: Unexpected token “font”  
Severity: Existential  
Suggestion: Have you tried... giving up?  

I inspected elements.
I reloaded.
I cleared caches, cookies, and briefly, my will to live.

At one point, I tried rewriting a div to make the layout look less like a Microsoft Access report from 2004.
Blogger replied:

“This feature is not supported on your planet.”

Look, I know there are beautiful blogs out there — blogs with their own Figma wireframes, color palettes that whisper in Pantone, and components that flex like digital yoga instructors. But this? This is Delfik Orakle.

This is what happens when you cross Sergey Brin's comp-sci degree with unresolved aesthetic trauma.

And no, says Sergey, "I will not migrate to WordPress."

That’s like abandoning your Tamagotchi just because it’s sad and blinking and covered in digital poop.

So here I am.

All because of Sergey Brin or Larry Page's decision making, hunched over a DOM tree older than some crypto protocols.
Refusing to let go.
Refusing to align the header properly.

If you’re reading this, know that somewhere, deep inside the HTML, there’s a lone <div> still trying its best.

And maybe that’s enough.

🧵Blog Post 5: My Blog's Color Scheme Is a Cry for Help

 

🧵Blog Post 5: My Blog's Color Scheme Is a Cry for Help

Or: This Blog is This Color? Really?

Can we talk about the color scheme?

I don’t know how it happened. I vaguely recall setting “something-or-the-other” as the background in 2011. Might have been beige. That beige has since evolved — nay, mutated — into something resembling sunburnt cardboard. The font color is somewhere between “dusty regret” and “accidental plum.”

It’s not even ironic.

People visit my blog and squint. Not at the ideas — at the contrast. It’s like trying to read poetry carved into an overripe avocado.

I tried fixing it once.
I clicked into Blogger’s Advanced Theme Editor and was immediately offered 400 customizable settings, all helpfully labeled things like:

• Widget Border Hover

• Outer Sidebar Link Glow

• Footer Divider Top Shadow Horizontal (?)

I panicked. Again.
Changed nothing.
Closed tab.
Ate chocolate.

🧵Blog Post 4: Widgets from Another Lifetime

 

🧵Blog Post 4: Widgets from Another Lifetime

Or: I Think That Blogroll Link Is to a Defunct GeoCities Page

Let’s talk widgets. I once had an idea for a new blog style. I worked on it for a little bit. I came up with something.

The sidebar included:

• A blogroll with links to writers who haven’t posted since 2013.

• A broken image that once proudly said “Subscribe to my RSS feed.”

• A hit counter that I think is still working, but I haven’t clicked on it in fear it may bite.

• A quote box that autoloads a single aphorism: “Be yourself; everyone else is taken.” Very 2009. Possibly Oscar Wilde. Possibly my high school teacher. Who knows?

Then, I came right back to this blog.

I’ve considered cleaning this up.

But then I think: isn’t this history?
A digital dig site?
Future archaeologists will stumble across Delfik Orakle and say, “Ah yes, a pre-Instagramian info-hoarder. Fascinating.”

I’ve grown fond of the mess. The widgets are like fossils.
Ugly, irrelevant fossils.
But still fossils.