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my official list of post-glitch.com hosting options

we are less than a week away from [fastly shutting down glitch.com](https://livelaugh.blog/posts/on-important-changes-coming-to-glitch/). while i [haven't worked there](https://livelaugh.blog/posts/i-made-a-very-hard-decision-this-year/) in 10 months, i'm still as much a glitch power user as i've been since i helped launch it in 2017, so i have been doing a lot of work behind the scenes, [and with some of you live](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0hmC7jyckDu7xXNwZfDEg56vwaoT2T63), to find new homes for my most precious projects.

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an april photo dump before april is over

in the girly world of working on projects, being depressed, and blogging, you often can only pick two of those - and my brain *loves* to work on projects and be depressed. it's been a busy april, but first a word from our sponsor: pumagreg.

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how to grow a web presence, 1/n

in 2013 i grew a significant following after entering the javascript conference talk circuit as the 'art and code' girl at the basketball company who also wrote tech satire which scared a generation of web developers into reading more critically and commenting more kindly (if at all).

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carousels, cashews, candles and community

when i was little, my grandma and i used to take the car service to coney island to ride the carousel. i loved my time with my grandma so much that i kept to myself the constant anxiety in my tummy as we rode in a stranger's car, encountered sketchy men on the boardwalk, and rode the horses in a circle over and over again in the hot and sticky air. i never told her i was scared or that my tummy hurt, because i didn't want her to stop spending time with me. as far as i was concerned back then, my grandma was all that i had.

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