Rather than spam yet another link to my Javascript library, I'll instead link to the website of a hobby I've invested over 30 years - writing poetry[1]. There'

Rather than spam yet another link to my Javascript library, I'll instead link to the website of a hobby I've invested over 30 years - writing poetry[1]. There's no money in poetry, and yet the world of poetry continues to insist that the only way to move a poem from the poet's mind to the reader's eye is by publishing it - either in a literary magazine, or a pamphlet/collection, or an anthology. An alternative route, through newspapers and magazines, has collapsed in recent years. Sharing poems via social media - in particular Instagram - has shown some promise, but the end goal still seems to be some sort of publishing deal with the traditional suspects. Maybe TikTik poets will be able to break the cycle? Whatever. I decided long ago that I didn't want to play that game. I enjoy writing poems, and I enjoy sharing poems with friends, family and whoever else might be interested in it. I built the first website to host my 'self-published' works back in the early 2000s; much of my coding learning and skills developed from the work I've done on this, and similar, hobby sites[2]. One nice thing about my approach is that the British Library regularly snapshots the site as part of its mission to capture/archive .uk websites. My words won't die when I die - though I doubt they'll be of interest to future generations. [1] - The RikVerse - https://rikverse2020.rikweb.org.uk/ https://rikverse2020.rikweb.org.uk/ [2] - I've documented the work I did to create this latest version of the site in a series of blog posts, starting here - https://blog.rikworks.co.uk/2020/02/01/Recoding-the-RikVerse-website-Introduction/ https://blog.rikworks.co.uk/2020/02/01/Recoding-the-RikVerse...