Curse of Customization
I love customizing stuff. It's what makes your stuff different from others and also acts as a form of expression. Being really into programming and computers, I think the majority of my "customization drive" can be seen in how I customize my devices.
When I was in high school, I asked my mom if I could swap my iPhone for the Android phone my brother was going to receive. The iPhone was faster and more recent than the android phone, but I knew I could make apps for it, side-load other's applications, and customize it far more than Apple would let you, at least at the time.
I think this led me to all the projects and creative drive that I have to this day. Wanting to be in complete control of my devices led me to Android, and then Linux... and now I have a server computer that takes up more space than my personal computer does. I've tweaked and modified every device I've been able to: every Android phone had or has several side-loaded APKs, I tried desperately to jailbreak my 2nd Generation iPod Touch to no avail, jailbroke my old PlayStation 3, and more recently installed Rockbox on a 6th Generation iPod so that it could play audio files not added through iTunes.
This has also made making this blog/site difficult. Bear Blog is great, but the use of markdown for everything is a double-edged sword.
Usually, the easier a software or program is to setup and use, the less customization you can apply to it.
For example, Markdown lets you do some HTML stuff, like embeds. On the Music page I put an embedded player for my most recent music on Bandcamp. What the embed code for it does is display an EmbeddedPlayer URL in a small box. You've probably seen stuff like this a lot and if you make websites it's pretty common. HTML code snippets like it are used on lots of websites.
However, Markdown only does some of this HTML stuff. It's mainly used for formatting text in documents so there's not really a need to add HTML code into it. So most of the HTML snippets I want to use just breaks or doesn't look the way I want it to. Maybe I just don't have enough Markdown experience to figure it out yet but that Customization Curse just keeps pushing to find an alternative, another way that someone else might have figured out but that I haven't found yet.
But for now, I'll have to accept that I can't have everything the way I want it to be. Obviously, nobody ever can. But that doesn't mean I can't figure it out later.