‘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: my homepage redesign. As usual, I have grand, ambitious plans for it, and the...

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 Dune. Originally one image, I split it into two in order to rearrange them...

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 log. The highlight was writing captions, which displayed with a short...

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 it makes sense I hadn’t bothered with this when I first set up my site. But it’s...

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 okay ★★★ = liked ★★★★ = favourite ‘Pretty okay’ is how I end up feeling about...

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 Justin Duke’s. I am not yet writing substantial reviews, so de-emphasizing reviews...

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 of data. So instead of having a season-15.json and season-16.json and...

I meant to write a comprehensive post about my site redesign, but honestly I’ve run out of steam and instead I’m just going to write some messy notes for the sake of actually publishing it. Context: I redesigned my site the other week! The visual design was originally intended to look like a printed book: serif...

I started building a to do app, which is really more of a journaling app. I’ve reached the point of getting tired of the build process though, so I’m switching to writing about it to reboot my brain. This post is intended to be a public notes dumping ground that I’ll continually add to and edit as I work on this. ✨...

I haven’t written anything lately and I also feel like I’m not thinking about much worth writing about lately, so I’m not writing. And the longer it drags on that I don’t publish something, the more pressure I feel to make my next addition Good, which is just a lot of pressure to feel about something that doesn’t...

I built a new PC last week. I had bought my previous PC from a friend five or so years ago, and it was showing its age in its inability to run games smoothly, which is really the only thing I care about. I’ve wanted to build a small form factor (SFF) PC ever since I learned about them years ago, so it was exciting...

I published this site redesign last month knowing it was imperfect, and I’ve finally returned to it to fix all the little details that weren’t great. Typography I changed up my typography with the redesign, which was cool and fun at first, until I realized some problems: The visual hierarchy among H1/H2/H3 was off,...