My Journal

I know its a cheesy name but what else should I call it? This is both a test and a first post. I don't have too much to say but firstly thanks a ton to STICKY HANDS for the framework I'm building off of for this page. I'm extremely new to this so I'm not sure if I am meant to ask directly first and I dont even know how. But at the very least I can credit them. I want to customize it to be mine even more and I'm sure by the time you are reading this, whoeveer you are, it will look very different. But for now I'm just trying to get the base functionality of eveyrthing I want on my site up and running before I even think about colors and style.

Making this site so far has been borderline theraputic for me. At first progress was extremely slow as I struggled with learning a ton of HTML and CSS concepts in depth that I already kinda knew given my backgrounds with Java, javascript, Python, Deluge, and SQL and my current job as a system admin. But then I decided to stop trying to learn a bunch of concepts I didnt even know if I'd need and instead just gather a bunch of inspiration for what I wanted my site to look like by browsing different Neocities sites. So browse I did, and evyerhting I liked and wanted to do myself got its own task in a giant kanban in my Todoist instance for the site. From then on inspiration and enthuasiasm flowed like a tsunami and I got to work.

All I have set up so far is a ever so slightly cusotmized boilerplate for my index page as well as this and the most barebones changelog page imaginable. But its working and I cant stop thining about wanting to work on my site each day. I also have it set up to push to github and automatically to Neocities from my text editor of choice; Phoenix Code. Tackling small challenges like the countless you face building a site has always been the most satisfying part of a job in tech. Even more so when you are solving those problems for youself. And I know I mention a job in tech, dont worry, I work at a solar panel/equipment destributor, not some evil megacorp.

Alright, thats enough yapping from me. I'll call it there for now. One thing I will do now and will hopefully have a more formal setup for going forward is mentioning a song I listened to while writing an entry. As you may already know or will soon know, I am a sick and twisted freak for music, and am often listening to something just about all the time. Okay seriously thats it. Byeeee!

Song: Everything to Lose by Low Roar