Recent posts from the blog
Earlier this year, I began migrating off of Github. My reasons are fairly simple and probably obvious for many people aware of the platform. With Microsoft’s participation in the genocide of Palestinians, I no longer want to be a user of their products nor do I want my projects to be associated with their platform. All active development this year has been on Sourcehut , having had an…
For the past year, I’ve been working on a major redesign of Themify , my user-customisable Rockbox theme. It’s proven to be my most ambitious Rockbox project yet, aiming to create a level of user-experience unseen before in any other UI theme. However, one of the major improvements in this rebuild has been the overhauling of Rockbox’s Quickscreen. What is the Quickscreen? For the…
Firstly, I’m so sorry for anyone subscribed to my RSS feed that just got spammed. I made some big changes to the site, but I’m confident this will be the final time. Secondly, I went and did it. At the end of my first-year celebration post in March, I talked about changing some core parts of this site. Namely new static site generation (SSG) and fixing the janky CSS. Quite frankly, I…
This article was written in March 2023 and, since August 2023, is no longer an accurate reflection of the current site. This time a year ago, d00k.net opened for the first time. The dates are a bit fuzzy, the domain was purchased in early March around my birthday, but I consider the site’s first real day to be when it was added to the XXIVV Webring on March 22nd. Dates aside, in just this…
After a few months of working on and off, I finally finished my next Rockbox theme: Themify. Themify does a lot of things I haven’t done yet in Rockbox, I really tried to push myself to create something cool and unique and I think the results definitely speak for themselves! This time, I decided to make a post here going over some of these features and generally looking into the code a bit…
Over the past year, I’ve slowly worked on moving my listening activities away from Spotify and towards a setup where I have much more control over how I listen. As people will be checking out their Spotify Unwrapped, I thought it’d be a great time to talk about my thoughts on the platform and why I’m moving away from it. Why leave? Don’t get me wrong, Spotify is pretty…
Over the past 10 months, I’ve worked on and off tweaking my site to get it closer to how I want it to look and perform. The main goal was simple: make a site that looks good, and loads fast. A quick solution would’ve been to keep the css to a minimum, use browser defaults for fonts etc. However that would’ve made my vision of a styled site difficult if not impossible. This pushed…