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So a few weeks back I got an offer of help to learn to code. And I started this blog as a tool to help me organize and support my learning process.

Then life suddenly got a whole lot busier. I began working more and the extra money fueled other changes. Plus there was just random life-gets-in-the-way stuff, like the drug dealer next door being evicted, thereby making me sick in reaction. Ugh.

This blog was started in March. It's now July. That tells you how much my life got derailed.

Probably everyone thinks I'm a deluded liar and lazy ass (who doesn't actually intend to learn to code), as usual. Instead of, you know, I have a genetic disorder and I'm getting well when that's not supposed to be possible. So things often take me extra time.

It's common that when I am on the actual PC -- instead of my phone -- and supposedly doing paid freelance work, I often do a little freelance work, then a whole lot of piddling. The past few days, that piddling has taken the form of adding CSS snippets to some of my blogs.

This is, in fact, a form of writing code, though it's small and has a low barrier to entry. It struck me as significant and possibly a first step towards eventually actually learning to fucking code after a goddamn decade of failing.

If you click on "customize theme" in BlogSpot, you can go into Advanced, then scroll to the very bottom of the list and click on "Add CSS." You can just add CSS to BlogSpot without digging into the raw code.

This makes it safe to play with. You can't break your website. If you don't like the changes you made, you just delete the CSS you added. No big.

I've been mostly playing with HR tags and Blockquote styling.



I studied HTML and CSS from a book and from some CDs or something. Some of that was a gift from a friend, some was stuff I purchased years ago. So I already know some HTML and CSS, not enough to write a lot of code from scratch, but enough to google phrases like blockquote css html style and come up with some sample code that I can modify.

Here are some of the websites I looked at while trying to find blockquote styling I liked: Though I can't seem to find the website where I got the code snippet I modified. I've spent a bit looking and just can't find it.

For future reference (for me, I really like this Coffee one from Code Pen. I also like this blockquote "bubble" from Code Pen

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Originally published in 2019. Edited substantially 5 July 2026

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