In 2020 I decided to make a website. It was COVID times and I, like so many others, decided to use their spare time to sit down and work on a skill that they’ve put off for the past few years. My entire experience (and scope for the project) was exclusively with raw HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. No frameworks, server-side processing, or even JQuery. Just bare-bones web development of the early 2000s. Safe to say, it was not the most appealing website, but it got the job done and I could officially say that I had my own website for the first time in my life. I lived with it and liked it for several years, until I finally realized that I should probably put something together that was more fitting of the modern age of web design.
First and foremost, let me say that I am not a web designer. Nor am I an especially gifted web programmer. The cold simplicity of C/C++ programs is familiar ground for me, so working at this layer of abstraction feels like what I imagine the ghost you’re contacting through the Ouija board feels. Additionally, being rather un-gifted in the “design” part of web design, I am thankful that people with more artistic skills than I have freely released their templates for me to clobber together.
Regardless, in late 2025 I indeed “clobbered” and produced the website you see now, with special thanks to the sources whose advertisements I have left at the footer of this website. My old site was, as mentioned, extremely static, and did not lend itself well to creating blog posts or writeups, with this reason being the other driving factor for me to form this website. I would like to practice my writing, both in natural language and in technical jargon, and so this website will serve as my vessel for doing so.
Well, here’s to 5 more years. Maybe I’ll FOMO myself into redesigning it in 2030 if the Metaverse or Web3 actually happens.