A collection of my blog posts
As many an avid looker of my site may know, i frequently use the constructed language of toki pona, its a language designed in 2001 with the goal to have as little amount of words as possible, to be extremely simple but not so that it limits the ideas you can share with it. in this sense i think its been wildly successful, even if its very much a niche thing and i wouldn't be surprised if more…
man what a series. only 6 episodes long but it fit so much into it. it was perfectly sized for the story. i really loved the art direction and the slowburn of it. it was honestly quite beautiful. it faced a lot of real life issues with the promise of something we all want in our lives, answers. i highly recommend it honestly, it was subtle in many ways including its art direction, but in that art…
sometimes i find i just need to improve my user experience in life. or sometimes i just need to show how i would personally do something myself I've done both of these recently! a few days ago i wrote a quick 11ty example site to help my many friends who are learning to make sites to make sites![1] and today i spent a few hours today to make a little button that will automatically save a page to…
I am working on a secret project at the moment and its been going well but i have hit a lot of walls, most of them to do with tooling in the process of creating it. Since it requires 3d modeling i have had to be learning that, and while i am happy with where i have gotten it, its not done to my standards yet. But unfortuntely i do not know the tools well enough to get it done! I also have been…
a bunch of my friends have been blogging of late and i have been wanting to do so myself too! so that is one of my goals for this year, to blog more! to put my ramblings out there! ill probably post about shows im watching, things im doing, etc etc.
This lst few weeks my sleep schedule has been really messy, but one upside of it is i have been waking up around sunrise. i get it, it's such a quiet time and yet it's bright outside, it's really contemplative time that said I'd like my sleep to function please
For my daily art yesterday, i really wanted a dither pattern that looks like stars. Unfortunately I could not find such a thing. So I made one. How does a dither work? A dither is essentially a map from every colour to black or white, this is done by adding the source colour and the dither pattern together, and then forcing each pixel to either be black or white. (Coloured dithers are created by…
I have recently joined a hackerspace, and since i have been wanting to get more into writing, as well as recently purchased an ereader which i have been loving, i decided i wanted to manufacture a pair of clips to attach my e reader to my keyboard for writing usage! I spent a fair few hours learning freecad, measuring both devices, and creating a cad document of a structure to hold the tablet. The…
today i performed two experiments on my way home from a date with my partner[1] the first one was my gloves, usually i use a pair of fingerless bike gloves when wheeling around, however they are made of plastics and other non renewable fabrics, so i've been wanting to find an alternative. I found a pair of fingerless leather gloves the other week while exploring a farmers / wholesale market, they…
I added a tags system for my site! now i can tag posts!
Today i added support for multiple images to appear in both embeds across the web, and also as thumbnails on my art page! very enjoyable, very cute! i used the magic of scroll snapping to achieve it so that when you scroll onto one it will have the right gaps and things
I added pagniation to my site because maybe loading several hundred images in a single page, even with caching and lazy loading, is a bad idea. my art pages are paginated at 60 posts per page (because it can be divided by 3, 2, and 1. the different column sizes my site has), and my blog at 10 (because its a nice number and blog posts take up more space). happy its finally done! I also want to…
Yesterday, i was thinking once again about digital tombstones. The things we leave behind once we are no longer online for whatever reason. My site is not static, the server is programmed with nodejs, express, and liquid (and other irrelevant stuff). while some pages are more manually crafted, the blog/art pages autogenerate from the 800+ posts on my site (which is a lot wow), and then each post…
i updated my h-card today! Removed some stuff, changed stuff around to make it look nicer, added some stuff (my pgp key and my xmpp handle), all in all made it more represntitive of what i want to put myself out as. i am not my work, i am me! and i want to communicate!
Web Web Motherfucking Website - Some stuff about how the web is more accessible by default then it is mostly Better Motherfucking Website - A response to the above, about how the default accessability could be better very easily Grumpy Website - a big list of bad designs Tonsky - Checkbox - A tribute to checkboxes neonaut - Just a bunch of thoughts about the web Art dedware - Beautiful Biological…