Posts by tea
I “finished” Kirby and the Forgotten Land in July, having started it shortly after it released back in 2022. I remember looking forward to it back then. The last Kirby game I had played before this was Kirby: Planet Robobot (also around the time it released, in 2016), which most people would agree was a pretty good game. I wouldn’t call myself a massive Kirby fan, despite owning a bunch of…
I’ve played Pokémon for as long as I’ve been playing video games. When I first got a GameBoy Advance I played Emerald and LeafGreen . I played a copy of Yellow I borrowed from a friend in primary school. I played Crystal on an emulator on my cellphone in middle school (and refused to evolve Cyndaquil because it was so cute). I played every single mainline Pokémon game since and always had fun. I…
I updated my website about a month ago! Did anyone notice? The Idea Surely you’ve seen some websites around that have a “now playing widget” or something similar. At the start of December I thought it would be nice to add something like that to my website, but in a completely static way. The easy way definitely would’ve been to just slam some JavaScript or a premade widget in there that fetched…
A couple months ago I ended up writing something in C++ for the very first time and even did a proper tagged release because I thought other people might find it useful too. Ever since then I occasionally thought about writing about it, but never actually got around to it. In the meantime I ended up doing other stuff, so this is more of a collection of some things I worked on in the past ~4 months…
I did! It’s been a while now since I posted about why I decided to write my own static site generator, what I chose to use for templating and teased that I would post more about it. So it has been pretty much done now for a while (at least for my current use case) – I just never felt like writing anything about it. Let’s do a quick (maybe not so quick after all) rundown of how it works and what I…
For a while I’ve grown increasingly frustrated with my current static site generator (Gatsby). It does the things I want well enough, but also adds way too much bloat to the site (which you can partially remove with a plugin…). My main frustration with it arose when I wanted to add support for a new image format, but its plugin architecture (while presumably “powerful”) made this way too…