Hi! I haven't written anything proper for this blog for a while. So, um, happy new year I guess? I'm a little bit late with that lol.
I have started rewriting my website again (this is the 8th time if I'm counting correctly), from the ground up. I wrote a new static site generator which is way more usable than my previous one and hopefully should be portable enough that someone else could use it if they really wanted.
Anyway, the aesthetic I want to lean into with the current redesign is a sort-of natural look, hence the green/brown colour scheme. I've been thinking if I want to add some other decoration (flowers, etc.), but I still need to figure out a way to do that without affecting readability. I also have no clue how to make that work with the dark mode.
Speaking about dark mode, I think this is the first proper design I made where I focused on the light theme over the dark theme rather than leaving it as an afterthought. It's quite interesting how much different it feels.
Aside from visual changes, I am rewriting the backend as well. Until this point, it was a bunch of php scripts held together by duct tape, and it's kind of a miracle that it worked at all. I want to move it instead to python, because I've done many projects with python backends recently and I think I kinda get the hang of it now.
I'm also planning on adding a nanolog and an anonymous question box, both of which are shamelessly stolen from David and winter respectively.
UPDATE: I decided against the nanolog for the time being so I can finish this website in a reasonable time. You should still check out David though he's really cool.
UPDATE 2 (2025-03-02): The site is finally finished!