Welcome to my Website!™

2025-09-08 under construction today...

Parts of the site

• hacks - various software I've made, and some JavaScript things. There's not much there yet.

Coming soon?

• Music section - music reviews etc. Maybe my own compositions too.
• Infodumps section - I explain things that I'm really interested in

About me

TODO

About the site

Hosting - This site is hosted for free by the ever-so-spiffy folks at Neocities . You should go there and make your own website too!

Why - I am making this site because I want an online presence that is more permanent and open than social media. Most social media sites require a modern browser for people to access them; a simple, carefully-designed website is far more accessible. Many social media sites require you to create an account to view the content; however, anyone can access this site.

Design - I want this site to be usable by as many people as possible, so I will try to stick to the following principles:

• No unnecessary JavaScript - Some browsers such as Mothra do not have any JavaScript support, so as a principle, if I should be able to do something without using JavaScript, I will. There are pages on my website that feature JavaScript, but these will be marked as such.
• LibreJS-compliance - There is a browser plugin called LibreJS, which is included in the GNU IceCat browser (archive) . For more information, read Richard Stallman's article "The JavaScript Trap" (archive) . I personally can't go about my life without nonfree JavaScript; the least I can do is to avoid writing any myself.

How - Here are all the tools I use to make my website.

• Void GNU/Linux - my operating system. I could happily use any of the free UNIX-like operating systems, but I use this one because it has up-to-date packages and its repository is managed well. Chimera Linux and FreeBSD would probably be fine too, but I'm perfectly happy on Void for now.
• VIM - the terminal-based text editor. It's just a really fast text editor which has syntax highlighting; that's all I need it for. I tried EMACS but I didn't like it.
• xfwk - a web framework written by me. I might write an article explaining it. It's not quite ideal.
• Neocities command-line tool - once I've compiled my site using xfwk, I can use a single command to publish it.
• Firefox Web Browser - the primary browser I use for testing my site. I use the BetterFox user.js configuration, which improves security. I would also recommend Zen Browser .