It’s Sunday, and as the first wave of pre-Christmas shopping has temporarily ebbed, I feel safe to dip my fingers into the code again and work on various bits of tightening. Like just about everything, the last few bits of polish and function require an insanely disproportionate amount of time and energy. It’s no wonder that a lot of folks never bother going there; it’s much easier to cover it up and hope that no one notices.

If delicious chocolate is in your gift-giving plans, you’re always welcome to buy things from tinctoris store, lovingly hand coded by yours truly. You get stuff for ridiculously low costs, I make a fraction of a dollar, and then you have the option of sending me feedback on site usability — I ♥ feature requests!

Mark Bernstein periodically makes me reconsider the direction I’m heading with the layout of my site. I am in no small amount of awe over the amount of data he manages to set down on his pages. My page, on the other hand, seems to be naturally paring itself down, and I find myself removing things. I’m not entirely sure how I can reconcile a need to creating something richer with the site’s apparent need to be as minimal as possible.