ANHVN
ANHVN
Anh
hi there! i’m anh, a designer and artist this website is where i do silly web experiments and put all my personal content. it’s often experimental and messy so please pardon the dust!!
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Last weekend, I updated my homepage to feature some short comics that introduce different sections of my website. my homepage I made this because I had just attended a local comics festival and was freshly inspired—truly, the level of...
kicking off 2023 (in february, lol), with a quick note about something I want to do: create small utility pages that I (and only me, this is not to satisfy anyone else) find useful, instead of googling them and having to fight junky SEO...
Here’s a recap of my media consumption for the year. I track all this in my Media Diary. Film & TV This year, I watched 46 movies (wow!) and 15 TV shows (to varying degrees of completion). Here are my very scholarly highlights:...
I feel like this week has been an exceptionally good week for gamers, which has filled me with a sense of deep appreciation for getting into video games in the past few years. good for me, specifically. i’m gamers. a new season of...
This week I redesigned my homepage to look like chat bubbles. an introduction to myself, like i am texting you Writing vs. Texting I initially made this because 1) I was bored of my existing homepage, and 2) I wanted to try a format that...
It makes me feel depressed to give up, but I’m shelving my ~halloween website idea~ that I’m unable to finish before, well, Halloween. So, the context Back at the end of September, I started thinking about doing a fun spooky homepage on...
I’ve added my sketchbook back to the site nav. I can’t remember why I originally removed it. It may have been because I hid it on my homepage and thus had to also hide it in the site nav. Whatever the case, I’m over it. I put it back....
A standard heading: large, eye-catching text. It announces a new topic, organizes your writing, helps the reader skim. A small heading: it blends into the text. It says, rather than announces, that here is a new topic. An example Last...
‘I should blog more,’ I think, as one does when one has a personal blog. But writing is so hard, and writing about something worth reading about is hard, and self-doubt is so easy. Here’s what I’m pondering lately: The current project:...
I’m starting a new homepage redesign—the concept is ‘responsive comic.’ Here’s an old sketch I sliced up to test. One of my goals is to play around with how to rearrange compositions based on screen size. Sketch based on a scene from...
I’ve rebuilt my photo gallery. There have been many iterations of this as I try to maintain a personal alternative to Instagram; here is the latest. the new gallery History A few years ago, I spent a few months maintaining a daily photo...
I love to discover new things that make me feel colossally stupid for not doing them sooner. That’s the best kind of discovery! This is the Markdown Optimizations Edition. With that said, this involves a fair bit of Dependency Stuff, so...
I’ve been using a 4-star rating system for my watchlist for a while now, but I’ve had a consistent problem: most of the time, I end up rating something 2/4 because I think it’s fine. Currently, my system is: ★ = didn’t like ★★ = pretty...
I’ve created a Reading List. When I designed it, I knew I wanted something different from my watchlist, which I’m no longer a fan of. I like the neat grid of Daniël van der Winden’s reading list, and admire the effort and detail of...
I finally went and fixed up how I was managing my data on my Lost Sectors and Nightfalls sites. When I first created them I structured the data by season, and now that multiple seasons have passed it was annoying to manage duplicate sets...