Featured on LH (What I Learned) + Affinity Update

I (or rather, my workspace) got featured on Lifehacker a while back. I got home, turned on my computer, and opened up my email and out popped 50 emails, half of them from my contact form. I didn’t know what happened until the 18th email, where someone congratulated me for getting featured.

Wow. It was amazing, seeing all the comments, all the views. Google Analytics wasn’t reporting any new views (it seems to have a day lag) but I knew people were looking: my website went down with all the views, I got more comments than before, and I felt good.

It’s amazing how the world treats us: it seems to be so passive and it waits to let us reap results. As of writing, this website has gone through its seventh revision already. Although I call it version 6.5, there’s been more, I just don’t want to look so desperate.

And now I had the wonderful delight of being featured on Lifehacker, a blog I myself read daily, and have two thousand people (according to Analytics) look at my website, over fifty people email me with compliments, job requests, and just love. Not to mention all the new Twitter subscribers I have now.

It’s hard to decide what I should call this phenomenon: beautiful, perhaps? I’m enjoying every second of this, but I can’t remember those who have helped me… Jason Fitzpatrick, for example, for writing the amazing post about me. I almost cried when I read it. Or my friends who listened to me hyperventilate when I found out Lifehacker had talked about me.

Of course, it does truly show that I am a twelve year old: I make mistakes. But I’m learning, and this is perhaps the best part of being a kid: it’s having an ever-changing life with crazy things going on every day. I’m working on starting a school magazine right now, and who knows what to happen a few years from now?

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Affinity Update: A lot of you have been asking about Affinity. I am hard at work at it, and I currently have the front pages done. Still left to complete are the post pages, the page pages (haha), the archive pages, the widget areas, and the comment area.

I know I’m taking my sweet time to finish this, but I really want to make it good, and so I am proud to say that I can offer a limited screenshot of Affinity:

As you can see, Affinity will be a grunge-themed layout with clean aspects at the same time. I hope I will please all of you. Follow me on Twitter for continuous updates, and feel free to provide suggestions. You, my readers, are the greatest source of joy for me. There is nothing more wonderful about this whole experience than reading all those beautiful messages and emails you’ve given to me.

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