The personal site of Will Presley, professional web developer, soccer player/fan, and hobbyist Android developer. Based in Athens, Ohio.
We’ve all been there. You click a link to read an article, scroll down with your mouse wheel, and instead of the page moving normally, it glides, floats, or lurches along at a custom speed determined by the site’s developer. Scroll hijacking—often implemented via “smooth scrolling” libraries like GSAP, Locomotive Scroll, or Lenis—is a trend that refuses to die. While it can look neat on a highly…
A quick note to say that I'm still around and will be back to writing and updating this site soon.
As has been the case with a lot of things lately, I spotted this first on Jan-Lukas Else's blog (who spotted it on Henrique Dias' blog). It's a great (and heavily-starred) project called wttr.in that brings weather forecasts into your terminal with a huge amount of options.
This site does not get a lot of traffic. It probably never will. In the same way, I don’t have a huge need for comments on blog posts, projects, and so on. That said, I like to give people the option to comment on something if they feel the desire to, so from the launch of this site until very recently, Disqus was embedded (when ‘comments: true’ in the Jekyll front-matter at least). As I am…
A Note from the Future Not really, but I have been genuinely awful about keeping up this blog, but a plan of mine for 2020 is to fix that! I felt really weird just jump-starting after nearly 5 years into new stuff, so there will be a few yearly recaps (that are mainly comprised of images) first! They will get rational dates instead of all being January 2020. January Transformers - Bumblebee Movie…
A Note from the Future Not really, but I have been genuinely awful about keeping up this blog, but a plan of mine for 2020 is to fix that! I felt really weird just jump-starting after nearly 5 years into new stuff, so there will be a few yearly recaps (that are mainly comprised of images) first! They will get rational dates instead of all being January 2020. The Setup Heather and I finally…
A Note from the Future Not really, but I have been genuinely awful about keeping up this blog, but a plan of mine for 2020 is to fix that! I felt really weird just jump-starting after nearly 5 years into new stuff, so there will be a few yearly recaps (that are mainly comprised of images) first! They will get rational dates instead of all being January 2020. January Got a Nintendo Switch Add me as…
A Note from the Future Not really, but I have been genuinely awful about keeping up this blog, but a plan of mine for 2020 is to fix that! I felt really weird just jump-starting after nearly 5 years into new stuff, so there will be a few yearly recaps (that are mainly comprised of images) first! They will get rational dates instead of all being January 2020. The Big Reveal Heather and I got…
A Note from the Future Not really, but I have been genuinely awful about keeping up this blog, but a plan of mine for 2020 is to fix that! I felt really weird just jump-starting after nearly 5 years into new stuff, so there will be a few yearly recaps (that are mainly comprised of images) first! They will get rational dates instead of all being January 2020. January Some Xmas Gift Records Meg’s…
A Note from the Future Not really, but I have been genuinely awful about keeping up this blog, but a plan of mine for 2020 is to fix that! I felt really weird just jump-starting after nearly 5 years into new stuff, so there will be a few yearly recaps (that are mainly comprised of images) first! They will get rational dates instead of all being January 2020. June Nelsonville Music Festival 2016…
Continued from Part 1 .. Spring March Springtime in Athens is always fantastic, and this one was no exception. After some much-needed fort building and hermit-holing at the apartment, the creative juices started flowing again. The run of amazing concerts was further extended by catching Dr. Dog at the Newport. The show was honestly incredible, and they are worth seeing over and over. April In…
In what is clearly becoming a recurring theme for this site and blog, I’ve been extremely busy both with work and with life, so the updates will have to come as a large chunk yet again! Fall September In September I finally got back out onto the soccer field after many years away, captaining a team named Sherwood Forest in Athens Community Soccer. We also started regularly going to Little Fish…
As can be clearly seen by the lack of updates on this site, the last 6 months have been rather hectic for me both personally and professionally. Here’s a (very) brief overview of how things have been going! Spring March In March there was a tremendous snow storm here in Athens, and a couple days later we got these pictures of our gorgeous town from the company quadcopter: April In April I got the…
This entire workflow is probably too specific to be a huge help to anyone out there. Because the whole thing took me a little while to put together for myself, I thought maybe someone out there had a similar setup to mine, so I wanted to share in case it could help. Prerequisites Windows PC with Cygwin installed (and at least the ssh & rsync packages and their dependencies) A working SSH key-based…
Welcome to the new and improved WillPresley.com! I think that my name is plastered on the site enough, but I’m Will. I’m currently 36 years old and live in Athens, Ohio. I have long been obsessed with computers and technology, and have been making websites since I was 11 years old. How I Got Into Web Development My first website that was seen by the public was a fan site and download center for…