modify some tags

devalog · devalog · commit 1d245553b784 · 2025-02-24T11:19:12.000-05:00
diff --git a/_posts/2021-01-01-ereaders.md b/_posts/2021-01-01-ereaders.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ layout: post
 title: "I like e-readers now"
 redirect_from: /e-readers.html
 date: 2021-01-01
-tags: books, tech
+tags: books tech
 ---
 
 I've never been a fan of e-readers. I'm put off by the prospect of paying for a book that only exists on a device, especially when the price of e-books approaches or exceeds the cost of physical books (especially the used copies I tend to buy). I also just love physical books – the weight and feel of them, the experience of reading, the look of books on my shelf. 
diff --git a/_posts/2021-10-29-booksoct.md b/_posts/2021-10-29-booksoct.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 layout: post
 title: "The books I read in October 2021"
 date: 2021-10-29
-tags: books
+tags: books recaps
 ---
 
 ...in chronological order.
diff --git a/_posts/2021-12-04-booksnov.md b/_posts/2021-12-04-booksnov.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 layout: post
 title: "The books I read in November 2021"
 date: 2021-12-04
-tags: books
+tags: books recaps
 ---
 
 ...in chronological order.
diff --git a/_posts/2021-12-27-booksdecember.md b/_posts/2021-12-27-booksdecember.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 layout: post
 title: "The books I read in December 2021"
 date: 2021-12-27
-tags: books
+tags: books recaps
 ---
 
 ...in chronological order.
diff --git a/_posts/2022-01-09-booksjan.md b/_posts/2022-01-09-booksjan.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 layout: post
 title: "The books I read in January 2022"
 date: 2022-01-09
-tags: books
+tags: books recaps
 ---
 
 ...in chronological order.
diff --git a/_posts/2022-04-10-booksfebmarch.md b/_posts/2022-04-10-booksfebmarch.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 layout: post
 title: "The books I read in February and March 2022"
 date: 2022-04-10
-tags: books
+tags: books recaps
 ---
 
 ...in chronological order.
diff --git a/_posts/2022-05-01-booksapril.md b/_posts/2022-05-01-booksapril.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 layout: post
 title: "The books I read in April 2022"
 date: 2022-05-08
-tags: books
+tags: books recaps
 ---
 
 ...in chronological order.
diff --git a/_posts/2022-07-24-booksmayjune.md b/_posts/2022-07-24-booksmayjune.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 layout: post
 title: "Some thoughts about the books I read in May and June 2022"
 date: 2022-07-24
-tags: books
+tags: books recaps
 ---
 
 The worst book I read recently was *Lady Chatterley's Lover*, which provoked a [landmark obscenity trial](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Penguin_Books_Ltd) in the UK in 1960. Some critics think D.H. Lawrence's writing style was influenced by his tuberculosis, which he died from two years after publishing *Lady Chatterley's Lover*. Apparently, tuberculosis can cause a heightened emotional state and also impotence, which matches up pretty well to my personal beef with the book: I found the prose insufferably flowery and the characters flat and annoying.
diff --git a/_posts/2024-01-05-recap.md b/_posts/2024-01-05-recap.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 layout: post
 title: "2024 reading recap"
 date: 2024-01-05
-tags: recap-year, books
+tags: recap-year books
 ---
 
 Stats:
diff --git a/_posts/2025-02-09-jekyll.md b/_posts/2025-02-09-jekyll.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 layout: post
 title: "Using an LLM to revamp my site"
 date: 2025-02-09
-tags: ai, tech
+tags: ai tech
 ---
 
 This is a meandering post about my personal experience using Claude to redesign my site and my broader takeaways on using LLMs for technical projects like this. Note that Claude is just the LLM I happen to be casually using already – I have no affiliation and I also didn’t spend any amount of time trying to pick the “best” LLM for my project.
diff --git a/_posts/2025-02-17-montecristo.md b/_posts/2025-02-17-montecristo.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 layout: post
 title: "Finally reading *The Count of Monte Cristo*"
 date: 2025-02-17
+tags: books
 ---
 
 I bought a copy of The Count of Monte Cristo from my local Half Price Books when I was in high school. It remained on my shelf for all of high school, and I donated it (probably back to Half Price Books) when I went to college. Last month, over 15 years after I first bought the book, I finally read The Count of Monte Cristo. My first impression of the book was that it was boring. I thought it would be a lot more swashbuckling than it was – a tale of revenge! Perhaps I was also mixing up The Count of Monte Cristo with the author’s other famous work, The Three Musketeers. Even though I had a hard time getting into the book, once I was in it, I loved it. It’s a slow burn revenge plot – scenarios take years (and many chapters) for the Count of Monte Cristo to set up, but the final reveal is always incredible. 
diff --git a/_site/2020/06/08/elantris.html b/_site/2020/06/08/elantris.html
@@ -44,7 +44,11 @@
       </time>
     </p>
     <h1 class="post-title p-name"><em>Elantris</em> has a great plot, but a disappointing love interest
-</h1></header>
+</h1>
+        <a href="/archive.html#books">
+            #books
+        </a>
+    </header>
   <div class="post-content e-content">
     <p><em>Elantris</em> is the first book I’ve read by Brandon Sanderson, an author I keep hearing about from a lot of different people.</p>
 
diff --git a/_site/2020/06/13/normalpeople.html b/_site/2020/06/13/normalpeople.html
@@ -44,7 +44,11 @@
       </time>
     </p>
     <h1 class="post-title p-name"><em>Normal People</em> is about shifting power dynamics, not love
-</h1></header>
+</h1>
+        <a href="/archive.html#books">
+            #books
+        </a>
+    </header>
   <div class="post-content e-content">
     <p><em>Normal People</em> is about the power dynamics that are present inside and outside of a romantic relationship and how they shift over time (over years and also over moments) because of the relationship itself, external factors, and individual factors like insecurity and mental health.</p>
 
diff --git a/_site/2020/09/26/americanwoman.html b/_site/2020/09/26/americanwoman.html
@@ -44,7 +44,11 @@
       </time>
     </p>
     <h1 class="post-title p-name"><em>American Woman</em> considers how radicalism can produce ambivalence
-</h1></header>
+</h1>
+        <a href="/archive.html#books">
+            #books
+        </a>
+    </header>
   <div class="post-content e-content">
     <p><em>American Woman</em> is a fictionalization of the Patty Hearst kidnapping and aftermath – specifically, it focuses on the time between the SLA robbery of a sporting goods store in May 1974 and her arrest in April 1975.</p>
 
diff --git a/_site/2021/01/01/ereaders.html b/_site/2021/01/01/ereaders.html
@@ -44,7 +44,15 @@
       </time>
     </p>
     <h1 class="post-title p-name">I like e-readers now
-</h1></header>
+</h1>
+        <a href="/archive.html#books">
+            #books
+        </a>
+    
+        <a href="/archive.html#tech">
+            #tech
+        </a>
+    </header>
   <div class="post-content e-content">
     <p>I’ve never been a fan of e-readers. I’m put off by the prospect of paying for a book that only exists on a device, especially when the price of e-books approaches or exceeds the cost of physical books (especially the used copies I tend to buy). I also just love physical books – the weight and feel of them, the experience of reading, the look of books on my shelf.</p>
 
diff --git a/_site/2021/02/04/wharton.html b/_site/2021/02/04/wharton.html
@@ -44,7 +44,11 @@
       </time>
     </p>
     <h1 class="post-title p-name"><em>The House of Mirth</em> and <em>The Awakening</em> have so many similarities
-</h1></header>
+</h1>
+        <a href="/archive.html#books">
+            #books
+        </a>
+    </header>
   <div class="post-content e-content">
     <p>I read <em>The House of Mirth</em> and <em>The Awakening</em> almost back to back (one book in between – Susan Choi’s <em>Person of Interest</em>) unintentionally, but I was totally struck by how similar the two books are. <em>The Awakening</em> was published in 1899, while <em>The House of Mirth</em> was published just six years later in 1905. The protagonists, Lily Bart and Edna Pontellier, are also incredibly similar (and, interestingly, almost exactly the same age – Edna turns 28 during the course of The Awakening; Lily is 29 when <em>The House of Mirth</em> begins) – both are in rather precarious positions because of both their own actions and their own yearnings for something more than conventional social life, and both end their own lives because they are unable to find fulfillment through men and society and unwilling to conceive of a life outside of those constraints.</p>
 
diff --git a/_site/2021/04/08/mexicangothic.html b/_site/2021/04/08/mexicangothic.html
@@ -44,7 +44,11 @@
       </time>
     </p>
     <h1 class="post-title p-name">I didn’t like <em>Mexican Gothic</em>, but a lot of critics did
-</h1></header>
+</h1>
+        <a href="/archive.html#books">
+            #books
+        </a>
+    </header>
   <div class="post-content e-content">
     <p>I didn’t like <em>Mexican Gothic</em>, but a lot of other people did. I was so excited about the premise: a gothic novel in 1950s Mexico! I thought, “maybe this will be sort of like a new twist on Jane Eyre.” Yeah, it wasn’t. I was disappointed.</p>
 
diff --git a/_site/2021/07/08/snakes.html b/_site/2021/07/08/snakes.html
@@ -44,7 +44,11 @@
       </time>
     </p>
     <h1 class="post-title p-name">Don’t sleep, there are tons of boring linguistic details
-</h1></header>
+</h1>
+        <a href="/archive.html#books">
+            #books
+        </a>
+    </header>
   <div class="post-content e-content">
     <p>I recently finished <em>Don’t Sleep, There are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle</em>, an autobiographical account of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Everett">Daniel Everett</a>’s time as a Christian missionary to the Piraha (a small Amazon tribe), his analysis of the tribe’s unique language and linguistic structure, and his subsequent “deconversion.” There weren’t a TON of boring linguistic details – just a little too much academic theory for me. I thought I was going to read a travelogue/ethnography with a sprinkle of linguistic details. What I got was approximately half that, and half critical theory. But that’s okay.</p>
 
diff --git a/_site/2021/08/05/freefood.html b/_site/2021/08/05/freefood.html
@@ -44,7 +44,11 @@
       </time>
     </p>
     <h1 class="post-title p-name">Third-person omniscient narration in <em>Free Food for Millionaires</em>
-</h1></header>
+</h1>
+        <a href="/archive.html#books">
+            #books
+        </a>
+    </header>
   <div class="post-content e-content">
     <p>Min Jin Lee uses third-person omniscient narration in <em>Free Food for Millionaires</em>, a book I read in July and haven’t been able to stop thinking about. A lot of books use this style – <em>Middlemarch</em> and <em>The House of Mirth</em>, for example, both narrate the stories and thoughts of many characters. (<em>Middlemarch</em> is, incidentally or not, <em>Free Food for Millionaires</em> protagonist Casey Han’s favorite book.)</p>
 
diff --git a/_site/2021/10/29/booksoct.html b/_site/2021/10/29/booksoct.html
@@ -44,7 +44,15 @@
       </time>
     </p>
     <h1 class="post-title p-name">The books I read in October 2021
-</h1></header>
+</h1>
+        <a href="/archive.html#books">
+            #books
+        </a>
+    
+        <a href="/archive.html#recaps">
+            #recaps
+        </a>
+    </header>
   <div class="post-content e-content">
     <p>…in chronological order.</p>
 
diff --git a/_site/2021/12/04/booksnov.html b/_site/2021/12/04/booksnov.html
@@ -44,7 +44,15 @@
       </time>
     </p>
     <h1 class="post-title p-name">The books I read in November 2021
-</h1></header>
+</h1>
+        <a href="/archive.html#books">
+            #books
+        </a>
+    
+        <a href="/archive.html#recaps">
+            #recaps
+        </a>
+    </header>
   <div class="post-content e-content">
     <p>…in chronological order.</p>
 
diff --git a/_site/2021/12/27/booksdecember.html b/_site/2021/12/27/booksdecember.html
@@ -44,7 +44,15 @@
       </time>
     </p>
     <h1 class="post-title p-name">The books I read in December 2021
-</h1></header>
+</h1>
+        <a href="/archive.html#books">
+            #books
+        </a>
+    
+        <a href="/archive.html#recaps">
+            #recaps
+        </a>
+    </header>
   <div class="post-content e-content">
     <p>…in chronological order.</p>
 
diff --git a/_site/2022/01/09/booksjan.html b/_site/2022/01/09/booksjan.html
@@ -44,7 +44,15 @@
       </time>
     </p>
     <h1 class="post-title p-name">The books I read in January 2022
-</h1></header>
+</h1>
+        <a href="/archive.html#books">
+            #books
+        </a>
+    
+        <a href="/archive.html#recaps">
+            #recaps
+        </a>
+    </header>
   <div class="post-content e-content">
     <p>…in chronological order.</p>
 
diff --git a/_site/2022/01/18/kindred.html b/_site/2022/01/18/kindred.html
@@ -44,7 +44,11 @@
       </time>
     </p>
     <h1 class="post-title p-name"><em>Kindred</em> didn’t pander to me
-</h1></header>
+</h1>
+        <a href="/archive.html#books">
+            #books
+        </a>
+    </header>
   <div class="post-content e-content">
     <p>I loved the book <em>The Help</em> when I was in high school – it takes place in the 1960s and the protagonist is a white woman who writes about black maids working in white households. It’s not a terrible book, but it centers on a nice white woman who helps black people (who don’t really need the help in the first place) and then profits off of it. I liked the book because it was readable and the characters were overall compelling, but even more so, I liked it because it pandered to me, a white reader.</p>
 
diff --git a/_site/2022/04/10/booksfebmarch.html b/_site/2022/04/10/booksfebmarch.html
@@ -44,7 +44,15 @@
       </time>
     </p>
     <h1 class="post-title p-name">The books I read in February and March 2022
-</h1></header>
+</h1>
+        <a href="/archive.html#books">
+            #books
+        </a>
+    
+        <a href="/archive.html#recaps">
+            #recaps
+        </a>
+    </header>
   <div class="post-content e-content">
     <p>…in chronological order.</p>
 
diff --git a/_site/2022/05/08/booksapril.html b/_site/2022/05/08/booksapril.html
@@ -44,7 +44,15 @@
       </time>
     </p>
     <h1 class="post-title p-name">The books I read in April 2022
-</h1></header>
+</h1>
+        <a href="/archive.html#books">
+            #books
+        </a>
+    
+        <a href="/archive.html#recaps">
+            #recaps
+        </a>
+    </header>
   <div class="post-content e-content">
     <p>…in chronological order.</p>
 
diff --git a/_site/2022/05/20/buynothing.html b/_site/2022/05/20/buynothing.html
@@ -44,7 +44,11 @@
       </time>
     </p>
     <h1 class="post-title p-name">Buy Nothing groups in Mountain View and San Mateo
-</h1></header>
+</h1>
+        <a href="/archive.html#musings">
+            #musings
+        </a>
+    </header>
   <div class="post-content e-content">
     <p>I moved from Mountain View to San Mateo at the end of March. In anticipation of my move, I joined my Mountain View neighborhood’s <a href="https://buynothingproject.org/">Buy Nothing group</a> in order to offload some of the things that I didn’t want to pack up and move – things like clothes I no longer wore, books I read and didn’t like, some cheap IKEA furniture that I longer needed, and various items of an old roommate that I’d never gotten around to getting rid of. The Mountain View Buy Nothing group I joined was extremely active – multiple people expressed interest in almost everything I posted, and I was ultimately able to rehome a lot of items. I was surprised how great doing this felt – less profit driven than donating to Goodwill, more “useful” than bringing to the recycling center, more personal than posting on the free section of Craigslist, and more altruistic than selling on eBay (not that I could sell things like miscellaneous light bulbs anyway).</p>
 
diff --git a/_site/2022/07/24/booksmayjune.html b/_site/2022/07/24/booksmayjune.html
@@ -44,7 +44,15 @@
       </time>
     </p>
     <h1 class="post-title p-name">Some thoughts about the books I read in May and June 2022
-</h1></header>
+</h1>
+        <a href="/archive.html#books">
+            #books
+        </a>
+    
+        <a href="/archive.html#recaps">
+            #recaps
+        </a>
+    </header>
   <div class="post-content e-content">
     <p>The worst book I read recently was <em>Lady Chatterley’s Lover</em>, which provoked a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Penguin_Books_Ltd">landmark obscenity trial</a> in the UK in 1960. Some critics think D.H. Lawrence’s writing style was influenced by his tuberculosis, which he died from two years after publishing <em>Lady Chatterley’s Lover</em>. Apparently, tuberculosis can cause a heightened emotional state and also impotence, which matches up pretty well to my personal beef with the book: I found the prose insufferably flowery and the characters flat and annoying.</p>
 
diff --git a/_site/2022/09/21/beautifulworld.html b/_site/2022/09/21/beautifulworld.html
@@ -44,7 +44,11 @@
       </time>
     </p>
     <h1 class="post-title p-name">A beautiful book, you were not
-</h1></header>
+</h1>
+        <a href="/archive.html#books">
+            #books
+        </a>
+    </header>
   <div class="post-content e-content">
     <p>I’m a little bit embarrassed about how much I like <em>Conversations with Friends</em> and <em>Normal People</em>, the first two books by author Sally Rooney. I think this embarrassment comes from a variety of places. Sally Rooney is a <a href="https://www.gq.com/story/sally-rooney-bucket-hat">super popular</a> author, and I sort of resent that I really like an author who a lot of other people like. I want to have more alternative, subtle taste in books! Her books are also pretty melodramatic. They’re all on-and-off relationships and lack of communication and existential crises. I like this angst, but I’m also a little ashamed that I like this angst – it feels like something I should have grown out of. Anyway, because I liked Sally Rooney’s first two books so much, I was really excited to hear she had a new book coming out – <em>Beautiful World, Where Are You</em>. I was so excited in fact, that I preordered the damn book back in June. (It came out in September.) I’ve never preordered a book in my life.</p>
 
diff --git a/_site/2023/07/08/western.html b/_site/2023/07/08/western.html
@@ -44,7 +44,11 @@
       </time>
     </p>
     <h1 class="post-title p-name">In search of a good western book
-</h1></header>
+</h1>
+        <a href="/archive.html#books">
+            #books
+        </a>
+    </header>
   <div class="post-content e-content">
     <p>Ever since I randomly found the book <em>The Whistling Season</em> by Ivan Doig at the Half Price Books closest to my Minnesota hometown, I’ve been on a casual quest to find another “western” book that’s as satisfying.</p>
 
diff --git a/_site/2024/01/05/recap.html b/_site/2024/01/05/recap.html
@@ -44,7 +44,15 @@
       </time>
     </p>
     <h1 class="post-title p-name">2024 reading recap
-</h1></header>
+</h1>
+        <a href="/archive.html#recap-year">
+            #recap-year
+        </a>
+    
+        <a href="/archive.html#books">
+            #books
+        </a>
+    </header>
   <div class="post-content e-content">
     <p>Stats:</p>
 
diff --git a/_site/2024/06/17/newparent.html b/_site/2024/06/17/newparent.html
diff --git a/_site/2024/07/03/fairyland.html b/_site/2024/07/03/fairyland.html
diff --git a/_site/2024/12/08/admission.html b/_site/2024/12/08/admission.html
diff --git a/_site/2024/12/08/disappointingdnf.html b/_site/2024/12/08/disappointingdnf.html
diff --git a/_site/2024/12/08/nyt.html b/_site/2024/12/08/nyt.html
diff --git a/_site/2025/01/10/librarykobo.html b/_site/2025/01/10/librarykobo.html
diff --git a/_site/2025/01/27/trollope.html b/_site/2025/01/27/trollope.html
diff --git a/_site/2025/02/09/jekyll.html b/_site/2025/02/09/jekyll.html
diff --git a/_site/2025/02/17/montecristo.html b/_site/2025/02/17/montecristo.html
diff --git a/_site/archive.html b/_site/archive.html
diff --git a/_site/blog/index.html b/_site/blog/index.html
diff --git a/_site/feed.xml b/_site/feed.xml
