User:Kiara/PTMoMNbM

Projects That May or May Not be Made

A spell for the web

What is it?

A publication (one-page website or very small zine, or both?) that is a magic act to embrace and enlighten the power of indie web through the lens of sororities.

-> This needs refining

Why make it?

To highlight the connections and links between the web and magic, that cannot exist without the feminine

Workflow

⚹ Start from the writing exercise done in methods last year (output is here)

⚹ Expand on that, add a little intro to contextualize the making of this webpage, build it with neocities?

⚹ Use readings from the list

⚹ Make a zine or a website or a webzine or all!

Timetable

Small intro writing	1 day	TBD
Gathering additional material	1 week	TBD
Design draft	4 hours	TBD
Gathering visuals (maybe ask Roos?)	2 days	TBD
Code and publication through neocities	1-2 weeks	TBD
Proofreading	1 day	TBD
[Optional] Print	1 hour	TBD

Previous Practice

https://hub.xpub.nl/cerealbox/~kiara/methods/handmade-web/
Tumblr blogging
Roos's workshop about neocities website building that I couldn't attend :( -- it took place on 17-09-2025 at .zip

https://zipspace.nl/agenda (18-09-2025)

Choices Made

⚹ The website is a webring that starts with a lightweight statement made through light webdesign and the more you venture into the ring, the deeper you go into the subject (and get a sense of how magic enacts on the web? this sounds shaky, let's see if it can be done).
⚹ Through clicking paths, you can uncover extra rings or be brought back

Concepts: multi-layered dreamland, hidden clues, (text) adventure games, loops, traveling and wandering

References:

Olia Lialina | My Boyfriend Came Back From the War (1996)
Zoe Beloff | Beyond
Outer Wilds (if you don't know about it, don't look it up, just play it, any information could destroy the gaming experience)

Rapid Prototypes

⚹ Stand alone HTML/CSS pages
⚹ Gallery of spells and references
⚹ Webrings?
⚹ Zine mockups
⚹ Create my own gifs?

This project has its own dedicated page for further information, development, input

Get together zine

What is it?

A workshop centered around community and collaboration: taking a step away from the techno-capitalistic scheme that prones and encourages individuality. The workshop is about making a zine documenting all the previous workshops led during prototyping classes

Why make it?

To address how as humans we are slowly drifting away from our sociable nature and counter the stressful and pressuring ways induced by patriarchy and capitalism, reinforced by the growing fascism (to rephrase)
To document the prototyping classes and various workshops led over the trimester, as a testimony of collective and collaborative working

Workflow

⚹ Take notes and pictures + any additional material from every workshop
⚹ Set up a workflow integrating all this matter in order to put it in a collective zine
⚹ Make a zine!

Timetable

Organization prior to the final workshop	whole trimester, ongoing	TBD
Gathering meterial	1 week	TBD
Conducting the final workshop	1 hour to 1.5 hours	date: 17 or 24 november

Previous Practice

All workshops ever attended and the ones that are coming

Choices Made

⚹

Rapid Prototypes

DAMN IT JUST MAKE A ZINE OUT OF ANYTHING I GUESS????

Typotek

What is it?

A locally-running font-library, to display all the fonts I have installed on my computer so I can easily visualize them and choose from my collection when I need to.
[edit on 21-05-2025] This will be done on my new Linux laptop, as it will be able to run apache (serve PHP) and the font managing might be way easier. The question is: should I publish it online so I can access it from anywhere? Probably yes, at least until I figure out how to dual boot my main laptop.

Why make it?

Because windows is shit and doesn't provide a good way to sort and visualize installed fonts.
I still haven't found an external app that suits my needs.

Workflow

⚹ Install the new fonts I collected

⚹ Make sure every font has a stylesheet and web formats

> For this, use transfonter

⚹ Start a web project, probably based on Julien Bidoret's repository

> I contacted Julien because his code is currently broken, waiting for an answer...
> ~~This step needs a deep dive into PHP and why it is not working anymore~~

⚹ Make sure that the project is hosted on codeberg for archive and versioning!

Timetable

Clean up and font installation	~ 1 full day	TBD
Verify and update stylesheets and web formats	~ 3 days	TBD
Chat with Julien to make the code work again	a few days maybe?	in progress
Fix PHP	half a day to a day	DONE!
Fill the website with font-files and adapt categories	~ 2 days	TBD
Bug fixing	~ 1 day	TBD

Previous Practice

web desiiiiiiiiiign <3

⚹ Smol contribution to Raphaël Bastide's Use&Modify (using ProcessWire)

⚹ Trials to actually make this have been running for a year(?) now...

> I lost my database, remember?

No support for iframe

Relations to Wider Contexts

If there is no tool, make it! → Strong ties to the F/LOSS way of thinking

Choices Made

⚹ Filters

> font family (serif, sans, mono, etc.)
> variable
> complete charset / missing diacritics
> made by wxmen
> license model
>

⚹ Info displayed

> Name of the font
> Foundry
> F/LOSS or paid license
> Designer(s) + wxmen/queer indication
> Text input to test the font on different chunks of text
>

Rapid Prototypes

Write one sentence instruction for a work.
Make it.

Screenshot of what the first draft looked like (2023)
Another screenshot from before I lost the database (2024)

Dual booting

What is it?

Installing Linux on a laptop alongside Windows

Why make it?

Windows sucks but I still need it for some graphic design works

Workflow

⚹ Set a date for the install party
⚹ Open registrations
⚹ Make a wiki page for documentation (this is a good inspiration)
⚹ Find a good (online) guide
⚹ Make a back-up of the laptop's content
⚹ Do the workshop
⚹ Document the workshop
⚹ Enjoy the newly installed Linux!

Timetable

Making the wiki page	~ 15mn	TBD
Finding a guide to dual-booting	a day or more?	TBD
Making a back-up of the laptop's content	1 day	TBD
Workshop duration	1 day	TBD
Documenting the steps on the wiki	~ 1 day	TBD

Previous Practice

⚹ Messing around in the terminal in Prototyping classes
⚹ Installing WSL on my laptop
⚹ Attending the JdLL in 2023

Relations to Wider Contexts

See my research topics leads here

Choices Made

⚹ Which Linux distribution? Debian 12

⚹ Date of the workshop

> Is it better to wait for Windows to drop Windows 10 (october 2025) or does the date not really matter?

⚹ Deciding on which guide to use
⚹ Inviting an install-party expert?

Rapid Prototypes

This will not be prototyped, here will be some pictures from the workshop instead.

Dual Booting: Personal Journey

On July 20th 2025, I started my own journey into dual booting. It didn't go so well, but in the end I succeeded!

Steps	Problems	Troubleshooting	Success?
Flashing a USB drive with the right ISO image (arm64)	-	-	Yes
Windows entire backup and cleaning	-	-	Yes
Partitioning the SSD to welcome the Linux OS	Partition management is a nightmare	Using Paragon allowed to partition smoothly	Yes
Booting into the USB flash drive to install Linux	The Debian installer doesn't see the SSD	Here begins the troubleshooting journey that takes 2 days :) it is detailed below	Yes!!
Getting my data back	It seems the disk doesn't have enough space wtf	Following this tutorial solved the problem :)	Yes
Setting up the file sharing system to access files from both OS without having to duplicate them	-	-	WIP-TBD

Solve the invisible SSD problem

Here are the steps I followed in order to fix this problem:

Disabling fast startup from windows - INEFFICIENT
Changing the SATA HDD type to AHCI from the BIOS - SHOWS THE DISK BUT NO THE PARTITIONS + BREAKS WINDOWS
- I realized shortly after that the partition had not been made... so I did it again, but the SSD was still not showing (I also put the HDD back to its previous state).
- I went back to the BIOS to put the HDD into AHCI again, Windows breaks completely
- Reinstalling Windows... Reflashing the USB with Debian cause the USB drive was also partitioned for no reason...
Safe boot and AHCI - WORKED
- Turn on the safe boot with bcdedit/set {current} safeboot minimal in an admin run terminal (windows)
- Restart and put HDD in AHCI in the BIOS
- Restart again and disable safe boot with bcdedit/deletevalue safeboot in an admin terminal
- Hold shift and restart, then hit ESC to choose the booting option and run the Debian installer again!

- In the debian installer: SSD shows, I could run the manual partitioning and do the following:
  - Choose the partition
  - Rename it as "debian_root" and set "use as: Ext4 file system"
  - Create a new partition from the previous one (a small one)
    - Choose the auto config option and write changes
  - Installation works!!

18-09-2025 EDIT
The dual boot works well BUT sometimes (too often) my laptop freezes as soon as it starts. To "solve" this I have to force turn it off and turn it on again. Sometimes I have to do this 5 times in a row for the laptop to actually start... (:

Dual Booting: Why it is a terrible idea

As stated in the previous log, dual booting Linux with Windows doesn't work so well. The laptop randomly crashes, here are some journalctl logs from crash moments:

journal log showing the boot error
shutdown crash

Bachelor thesis website

What is it?

A website to display my first bachelor's thesis, in French and English.

Why make it?

Now it is only available as a very complex to make printed object, I want to have it easily readable and PDF sucks. HTML is always the best solution.

Workflow

It is in progress at the moment, so here are the remaining steps to follow

⚹ Finish importing the content in the website (HTML)

⚹ Resolve the display conflict

> masonry has not been implemented in the CSS specs yet, and it actually is what I need :(

⚹ Make it responsive

⚹ [optional] Add a CSS-print option?

⚹ Translate it

⚹ Publish it online and link it on my website

> This needs a big dive into URL manipulation, and probably will have to wait until I change my hosting provider

Timetable

Finish importing the content in the website	~ 1-2 days	TBD
Resolve the display conflict	several days	TBD
Make it responsive	~ 1-2 days?	TBD
Translate it	~ 1 week	TBD
Publish it online and link it on my website	~ 1 week (includes host change)	TBD
Add a CSS-print option?	couple of weeks?	TBD

Previous Practice

⚹ Writing the thesis (2021)
⚹ Webdesign
⚹ CSS-print
⚹ Learning new web standards everyday

Relations to Wider Contexts

⚹ Thesis writing, which I will be doing again soon!
⚹ Research
⚹ Graphic design x Web design x Print ..... when they merge .....
⚹ Publishing
⚹ Letting go of the impostor syndrome

Choices Made

Choices in design related to the content and the print version

> Colors, fonts, display/layout

Rapid Prototypes

⚹ Try different displays until finding the right one (has to be responsive)

> Grid
> Flex
> Table
> Hack???

⚹ Translate a section everyday for a week

Expanding my wiki

What is it?

A very precise expansion of the wiki content through documentation, writing, detailing

Why make it?

⚹ To get more familiar with un-self-censored writing
⚹ To get the habit of documenting
⚹ To keep a schedule in a way

Workflow

⚹ Write
⚹ Write
⚹ Write
⚹ Edit

Timetable

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Previous Practice

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Relations to Wider Contexts

⚹ Thesis writing
⚹ Research
⚹ Publishing
⚹ Letting go of the impostor syndrome

Choices Made

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Rapid Prototypes

⚹ Write notes where ever and transpose them in the wiki
⚹ Watch a movie actively: take notes, link references
⚹ Read a text/book actively: take notes, link references
⚹ Listen to a talk/podcast/... actively: take notes, link references

Team PTMoMNbM

from the 07-05-2025 Methods class (https://pad.xpub.nl/p/070525_Methods)

✦ teaming up with Claudio & Eleni (https://pad.xpub.nl/p/eleni-kiara-claudio-pmomm) we went on with our Schiedam adventure ✦

✦ teaming up with Claudio & Eleni again: Linux Montana install party!!