Okay let’s try to do this.
The why
I’ve been missing having a personal website for many years. I sometimes need a place where I can dump my thoughts into, publish some guides and documentation that I keep returning to, or host some small or temporary projects. And social networks and (micro)blogging platforms keep proving to be unreliable and uncontrollable.
So back to the roots we go. Old school web development is what brought me into programming and I miss it so much. I miss the RSS and being able to subscribe to the blogs of people I enjoy reading. I miss the small cozy communities sparking around personal websites, webrings and obscure forums.
Maybe it’s just nostalgia, or maybe it’s the strong feeling of disgust towards the modern social media, where AI and algorithms decide what you watch and read, determining for you what is boring and what is engaging.
The what
This is going to be my personal island of information on the Internet, which I can finally tweak and customize as much as I want to, making it my truly personal space.
I tried my best to make this site look and feel at least somewhat like Windows XP while not using any CSS or JavaScript frameworks at all, no mobile-first or single-page applications, just good old plain HTML pages with the styling done from scratch.
This website is obviously going to be always under construction. But I hope I won’t lose my focus and won’t give up on it.
// TODO
- (MOST IMPORTANT!) Add missing content.
- Clean up and refactor the code.
- Accessibility and browser compatibility improvements.
- Implement start menu (at the moment it’s just a link to the homepage).
- Finally implement a ton of ideas that I had over the years.
- …
- PROFIT!