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This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend Super Magfest 2025 in National Harbor, Maryland. The event is a massive collection of Video Games, Gamers, Musicians, Makers, Cosplayers, and Nerds of all types.
Conventions like this can be a ton of fun but also a bit overwhelming due to the large crowds and loud noises. Apparently my cellphone feels the same way, having struggled before at…
Existing project Description Flexible LED tubes controlled by WLED and turned into flow spinning props. I debuted the first edition of these at the Fall 2024 Wildfire Retreat, hastily assembled the night before I left for camp, and wrapped in shrink wrap (liberated from some shipping containers in the camp kitchen) for “safety” at the event, they unbelivably worked on the first…
Idea and Inspiration Inspiration The game series Tom Clancy’s: The Division features agents who are activated in national collapse event to protect the assets and institutions of the United States. Their basic loadout is typically street/work clothes and a very small collection of tech from the Strategic Homeland Defense agency (SHD). The primary tech shown in game is the SHD Brick and…
I remember a time when all web pages were walls of text, images were rare, and JavaScript was just something you used to scare each other.
It wasn’t necessarily a better time, but I felt like sites had more purpose, then came the Flash era, and now the “everything flashes” era. Most blog site templates are more concerned with your header images than making your content…
Note: Unlike most of the pages on this site I expect that this page may update over time, as I am constantly reading and re-reading webcomics in fits and spurts.
I once had a text file containing almost 300 comics that I was semi-regularly reading and wanted to keep track of, this is a bit of a callback to that era.
I make no claim that this list is complete, or accurate, or even useful.
The American Tour de Sol existed and I’m tired of pretending that it didn’t.
From 1989 to 2006 teams of students, companies, and individuals from around the world came together once a year to show the potential of electric and alternative-fueled vehicles. The event ran with a ton of volunteer assistance and funding from a few public agencies, but sadly it could no longer continue…
While I was reading an article on Soblow Xaselgio’s website about a completely different topic (yes, I plan to get back to the comments project at some point) I happened to notice her page on the topic of the well-known/button schema.
After a few minutes of banging around and some other updates I am happy to say that this site is now compliant as well! :D
Yes, yet another never…
As an exercise in learning some modern CSS I decided to rebuild this website template from scratch. I transitioned it away from the Poison theme to a brand new one I made by hand.
I’m still working on where I want to put some things. Putting my link buttons back, maybe on their own page, and deciding if I’m going to add more social media links. But I’m pretty pleased with how…
I decided today to update my website, boy oh boy that was a saga.
First I had to remember where I kept these files, then remember how to compile and upload the site. There was some brief detours with troubleshooting (tip: hugo won’t compile pages in the future by default, check your date when posting).
I decided that since I’m playing with NixOS for my coding environments now…
This is a test of the new comments system. I wonder if it works?
Update: Nope. Due to the site’s hosting we can’t fetch data cross-site. Sad.
Recently there’s been a resurgence of ‘old web’ idealism in the cloud of folks I’m following. This is mostly evident in simpler static websites, but things like Webrings and button links are coming back as well. I decided to get in on the action by making my own (crappy) little link button for this site.
I made it pixel by pixel in Aseprite, which was a fun process. No…
A micro-blogging platform connected to the fediverse. Currently running Sharkey which is based on Misskey, originally launched with Firefish (then called Calckey).
Sick of the endless enshittification of Facebook, the destruction of Twitter, and a personal desire to create a safe and colaborative space for the WildFire community, this server was launched on June 14th, 2023.
For more…
You’re looking at it, or a version of it.