New Day, New Project!

2026-03-23 @ 16:35:31

I've been having such a fun time adjusting this site to my own liking and making it really feel "my own". That being said, I've hit a bit of a roadblock with the amount of work involved in fixing the broken covers on My Bookshelf. Basically, I need to go through almost all the books and confirm the ISBN numbers are correct so that OpenLibrary API is able to pull the correct covers. Considering I need to manually go through and find each books correct ISBN, input each ISBN into the dataset, and refresh to see if the cover is available... and considering I have easily over 100 books on the various shelves... Yeah, this is a lot of work, and I'm honestly just not up to it right now. So - My Bookshelf is going to be an ongoing project that I come back to now and then. Hopefully I don't read and finish too many books before I come back to it!

In the meantime, I'm working on another project that I'll be coding entirely by-hand. I'm sure I mentioned somewhere, but despite my previous background in CSS and HTML I have been using some AI in order to create a good chunk of what you see here. Mainly SyberShooter, page layouts, fancy-pants styling that's quite honestly above my skillset, and all the Sybernetic-Specific images you see. I modified it, fixed it, and adjusted it to my own liking significantly - but I still can't claim that everything you see here is hand-coded. The project I'm going to be working on is entirely going to be hand-coded though, with zero use of AI. If that's your jam - stay tuned! It'll be coming eventually. The holdup is the fact that I don't want to use AI at all and that includes images. Since I'm a shitty artist on the best of days with no access to a tablet or drawing pad to create my own custom digital art, this means I'll be scowering neocities sites to see what I can snatch here and there to work with (of course, I'll always provide credit back to original artists!)

I don't want to mention too much about my project right now until I have something tangible I can show you all that I'm happy with to at least some degree. I want it to be a surprise! The good thing is that using AI to help build this site has refreshed my memory a lot about how to do what I want by myself, by hand. It's been like 5 years since I've taken any web development classes so I'm a little rusty lol. Working on this project will definitely help get the gears turning!

Another day of updating the starship...

2026-03-22 @ 13:16:32

I'm having tonnes of fun editing and updating my website. As of writing, I'd say my biggest success is getting OpenLibrary API to work with my Bookshelf. Doing this was incredibly tricky and required a .json file with all the details of each book on my read shelf, along with a rather complicated .js script to make the modals work as expected. Probably going to hate myself when it comes to adding new books to the site - I've read a lot more books than are actually displayed. Updating it will be a long-term goal I think, I'll progressively add more and more books to it. In the meantime, I've added a link to my Fable profile - feel free to check it out!

I have a number of ideas I want to implement in this site still. I want to make a tea room to showcase my love for tea and hopefully teach people a bit about it. I don't think I want the tea room to be in the same style as this main site though. I'm not sure how I'll edit the layout of my site to make it work in a cohesive way, but I'm sure I'll come up with something! I also want to create an "Engineering Room" as well - my idea for that is to fill it with button links to all the other neocity sites I stumble across as I explore.

For now though I'm just fine-tuning my design and layout choices site-wide until I've gotten something I'm happy with!

Lost In The Stars!

2026-03-22 @ 01:39:35

I've started my voyage across the vastness that is the Indie Web. Currently travelling across the Neocities Galaxy, I can't wait to see what lifeforms are out there to be discovered!

Mission is to collect cool artwork samples for the stardust collection, maybe connect communications with other web-travellers out there to increase our fleet size. All while maintaining and improving this here spaceship!