Here we go again - updated 08/05
Hello my digital friends :)
My life has been incredibly busy over the last few months. I would love to update my website more for the few that see it, but it feels like I'm drowning in work!! I'm alright though, everything is good :)
Since I published my site on the Neocities subreddit I've been getting lots and lots of love from all of you <3
What's new around here?
09/05/2026 - Added a new entry to my Linux guide and glyph fonts cross-platform support.
08/05/2026 - I completely reworked my theme even though the skeleton stays the same!
12/04/2026 - Switched to a lighter theme and added some tiny details all over.
What I feel is missing
I love space, and I need to somehow integrate space with a white background??? I'm going to perish.
To-do list:
- Interactive minipost story
Music album collection shrine- BCS / Kim Wexler shrine
Update cliques and blinkies- Change core usability features
- Update resource list
- Adapt to accessibility guidelines
- Upload plant-growing logs
- Website button!
- My site needs more celestial bodies...
Here I'm going to collect stuff I've been watching/reading/listening to recently!
(Will include dates of when they were added so you get the context)
Society
May 5th
A compilation of Palestine resources by Vertebrate
if you can give me 5 minutes, I will give you hours back. by Bread on Penguins
I forced my students to sit in silence for 5 minutes with their thoughts. I think they found it interesting!
Why Rich People Use The Internet Differently by Taylor Lorenz
They dive into etymology and sociology, which I love. Recommended if you like learning and analyzing about social media hierarchies and how different groups of people and "classes" are (mis)represented on social media itself.
Music
May 6th
TesseracT - Live In The Lockdown
One of my favourite albums, from one of my favourite bands in one of the best studio performances I've ever heard. I play this video almost weekly. This is a must.
Adam Barrett - Paranoid Android
Joe Edelmann - Decks Dark
Robin Kester - Suspirium
I can't, in good conscience, still support Radiohead because of my own personal moral reasons (not being a Zionist lol). They have been one of my favourite bands for many many years but I've refrained from listening to them except through covers done by beautiful people who put their hearts out for everyone to hear them beat :) It has personally hurt me a lot because they were my bread and butter and I was not aware of the stuff they said and did. So, regarding Radiohead and Thom Yorke, I'll refrain from sharing their OG songs here. This is a very personal choice that might change in the future, I don't know. I might share them in my album collection but with a text like this.
May 5th
Waldeck feat. Zeebee - Why did we fire the gun?
Sorry - Key to the city
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
Tools and guides
May 5th
Pixel planet generator by Deep-Fold
Cool Text Graphics Generator (unknown)
Halftone filters in Krita by Virtual Curiosities
A guide to self-hosting and optimizing your website's fonts by Sqvrltastic
Retro palette studio by Now in time
delphitools by Delphi
Image dump
May 5th
Growing plants
This year I'm growing:
- Spinach
- Cherry tomatoes
- Green onions
- Chives
- Parsley
- Sunflowers
- Green beans
- Peppers
- Thyme (it's struggling)
and propagating:
The growing plants in the picture are sunflowers! So many this year!
Bees
I might not have pets nowadays, but I love bugs that visit me.
Last year, amongst them, I had some giant fuzzy bumblebees get marinated and absolutely high on my sunflowers’ pollen!!! Enjoy the babies
Little worm thoughts
The idea behind doing a fast-loading, static webpage, is that I want my work to be accessible to everyone everywhere. So many times have I encountered sites that either don't load properly or take too long for then something to be completely broken and my experience ruined.
If I'm honest, I had never heard about these types of sites, it was through trying to find a good portfolio cms that I realized it was not so out-of-reach to manage my own posts... in markdown!!! What?! How's that even possible? - I basically said right away. But, yes, it is possible, and so much easier than I thought! If you truly want a complete custom experience it might be a steep learning curve, and even for newbie programmers like me, I feel like it just falls too big on me.
I try to find the logic behind things and edit my own code, but then I get lost, try to find people with the same issues and, again, get even more lost because search engines are basically dead in 2025. Oh, man... I had to ask Github Copilot, then Gemini, then I started FINALLY UNDERSTANDING. Even with my current "hatred" for AI as of November 2025.
Well, it worked. I understood more stuff than I thought while I was trying to formulate my questions to AI, and realized I know more than I think and at the same time I don't know anything. In a Google AI course I've recently taken, they say they mapped a whole worm's neural network. I feel like that tiny little worm.
So, yeah, those are my tiny worm thoughts. I'm still working on this, I'll probably make it public as soon as I understand more and not shame myself to infamy!
