1. name
    fe-[redacted]
  2. age
    early 30s
  3. pronouns
    they/them | he/him
  4. ?
    ?

interests and stuff

i like procrastinating, doomscrolling and sitting. aside from that, i have a fondness for being bad at video games, buying books and not reading them and re-watching tv shows. i'm trying to be more creative but still haven't really found and outlet. i've attempted some bad doodles, i started learning blender and getting into creating video games without results so far + i guess this li'l website also counts as a creative project. idk, it's a work in progress.

motivation for this site

  • to get away from social media because *gestures vaguely* have you seen how that's going? also i'm too dependent on the instand gratification of getting likes on silly jokes and this place where i will literally have no immediate way to get feedback might help with that.
  • getting better about actually voicing my opinions on things given that i'm very cautious about even admitting to people what kinda stuff i enjoy, let alone argue for why and what about it. it often felt to me like there's an atrophied muscle inside me where the capability to critically discuss media or opinions in general should be and that sucks.
  • showing off creative endeavors of which i have none (i'm dabbling in learning some things, as said above, but nothing i'm really proud to present as a finished result or even as a WIP)

about the tech behind it

this site is built with eleventy and currently heavily based on the eleventy-base-blog template. it seemed like a good enough starting point to quickly get something blog-like going on that can work with just writing posts as markdown files. as a software engineer by trade who mostly works with fuck-ass-complex react frontends i wanted to purposefully not build something that needs javascript or state management or like 95% of the other things that modern websites have (and obviously, since the goal is to host this on neocities or something similar, everything should be built into static sites without a need for database or more than a webserver). at the same time, i want to write something maintainable that's well-organized, so eleventy with its pretty flexible templating features it is. unfortunately the bit of scripting currently going on is vanilla javascript. i tried to make eleventy work with typescript but spent several hours trying out different approaches and failed (hey, eleventy, having a js library that doesn't provide types in 20256 is honestly horrifying).

it might look a bit too clean and organized design-wise for some people building retro web 1.0 style websites, but i can live with that. maybe some blingees will make their way in here at some point.