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Update Log

Ooctober 27, 2026: On October 19th, 2026, Pillowfort announced that they would be shutting down. I've been a pillowfort user since 2018 and really grew to love it's chill, cozy community. With Pillowfort being sunsetted, I began to look for similar alternatives, but found none that could quite match what pillowfort offered. So after 3 years of not touching this little site of mine (and feeling incredibly guilty for abandoning it, which made me less inclined to suddenly start up again) I finally decided to bite the bullet, pull up my big boy pants, dust off my old html skillz and try again by picking up where I left off. It's going to be slow going, but the going is going, which is the most important part after not updating this thing for almost a full presidential term. I have a lot to learn and relearn when it comes to coding and website maintenance, and I don't have a lot of free time to do it, but I will try to be more active here.

Pillowfort felt like one of the last bastions of the old internet, where you could just post and talk about whatever you wanted without being bombarded by ads or pleasing censors. It pained me to find no good alternative to pillowfort, so I will have to make my own. I feel like the internet is shrinking, and not in a good way. I feel like there's less to do online, less to discover and less to get excited about. I know, I know, I, too, have to put in the work to find these places I want and make the internet a place that's fun for others if I want to find fun in return, but it's hard when you're in your mid thirties with a full time job and living through a failing economy and corrupt government. I'll try my best, I promise. Send and encouraging word to me to help keep me motivated. I'm determined to carve out my own niche into digital concrete with a pickaxe made of hope, my nails made of determination and even my teeth made of spite if need be. I've come back after 3 years away, and I plan to stick around this time.

March 28, 2023: Added the "about", "Links", "credits", "site map" and "projects" page and gave them custom backgrounds. There is unique text on each page, but no links or pictures. I am considering adding a text box to the main body that scrolls so the background and sidebars stay static and won't be stretched into nothing while the middle column goes on for miles. I discovered that neocities does not like files or folders named "about" because when I tried to link my "about" page to my "about.html" file, it just... wouldn't work??? Anyone know why that is? Added some social links to the bottom of the left sidebar on the main page. I might change them later for a more uniform look, and maybe move them to the right sidebar.

March 27, 2023: I figured out how to adjust the size of the background image. Changed the image again. Current bg image credit goes to Lemat Works from tumblr. I will add a credits page for all images I use that I do not create myself (assuming I can find the original creator, that is, or the closest thing to it). I am now trying to figure out how to add additional pages and link to them. I figure I could get the meat of the website up and running first, then add the trimmings later to make it look nice. Note to self-think about making a thin rectangular image to put between paragraphs, as a pseudo break line.

March 26,2023: The actual customization of this site begins, as I stumble through the code, unearthing the scant bits of HTML coding I taught myself back in the day on Neopets, and looking warily at all this fancy CSS. I start by simply erasing premade text and adding my own. No links work yet as no other pages exist yet. I changed the background, but can't figure out how to change the size of the bg image. I will be looking into this at a later date.

March 25, 2023: a pre-made neocities theme was added to the site so it wouldn't look so goddamn empty and depressing, even though I still don't know exactly how I want the site to look

March 21, 2023: Website was created today in a blind surge of hopeless nostalgia, then left untouched for 4 days because I created the site late at night the day before the start of my work week. In the meantime, I fall down rabbit holes about geocities/neocities and old 90s websites for inspiration's sake.