I decided to create this site out of frustration with the modern Internet. Everything's so bland and flat nowadays ! Where's all the color and whimsy gone ?!¹

Me, well, I'm a massive nerd whose interests can be mostly summed up as video games, arcade machines (of every variety), and generally speaking designing and building stuff for the sake of it. I love DIY projects, whether it's something like programming, woodworking, welding, or 3D printing, and write about them over here. I'm going to open-source as much of my stuff as physically possible, even though I don't really know how I'm going to do that for wood and metal stuff yet !

I also write short and long form content every once in a while. Usually I try to write a couple blog posts and one long article per month, but no guarantees. It's not really something I'm used to do, you could even say this is an attempt to get out of my comfort zone, but I still need to have something worth going in depth about, y'know ?

Anyways, grab yourself a bev, load up a cozy playlist, and make yourself comfortable, aye ? Let's pause the rat race for a minute and enjoy some slow-paced nostalgia. Sounds like everyone could use a break.

1: Here on NeoCities, apparently (which is a good thing)

I merged the Home page with the first page of the blog. Wrote a piece of really inelegant code to treat the intro message as a blog post created at the moment of generation, so it always stays on top of page 1.

May is going to be a really quiet month for me, as I actively seek a job, even part-time, to make ends meet. Fortunately I still have games. Recently hit God of Destruction with two of my three characters in Tekken 8 (only King is missing for now), and picked up Zangief again in SF6. There's a small tournament of both this Sunday, in a goddamn movie theater no less, so that's probably gonna be the only tryhard action I'm getting this month.

I am working on a Wordle-like game when not fighting. Helps ease up the tension. Not as satisfying as building a new controller of course, but eh at least it's fun !

That'll be all for this post. Over and out.

Finally got off my lazy butt and tried my hand at an Aero-inspired stylesheet. As usual, I favor "done" over "perfect", but that won't stop me from revisiting it down the line if need be.

Aero is such a wonderful design language. Most of my negative opinions on modern design is how bland, neutral and generally uninspired it is overall. All done in an effort to uniformize the web to better display it on pocket-sized terminals. Convenience has cost us so much, and for so little in return. Hecc phones.

You ever had one of those days where you sleep for like 20 hours straight ?

It's been happening to me lately. The feeling of having an entire day go *poof* is very unsettling, to say the least. So far, no one really know what's causing this (can't be my medication since I haven't changed my intake since January). It's not that concerning yet, but might be whenever I start working again.

In other news I'm cooking a little something that I want to share for April fools. The PCBs are late however, so I'm not sure if I'll be able to. Stay tuned !

So much for "2 posts and an article a month" eh ? Well here's the thing: I've done fuck all this month. There's two big reasons.

The first one is that I've started taking antidepressants, and to be completely honest, they've been wrecking me. I know it takes time to get used to them so I'm not too worried, but the end result is still that I can barely spare the energy to do much of anything. On the upside though, I've been sleeping like a log, which is a very welcome change of pace from my usual bouts of insomnia.

The second is that I've ran into a tiny bit of financial snag which left basically nothing in terms of disposable income for this month. I've run out of filament a while ago and have been printing nothing but test pieces for the past couple weeks, using "scrap" filament (like neon pink for example), so progress has been very limited on the stick-making front. I hope to be able to make one next month.

Due to shenanigans I've also had my internet cut off for a couple weeks or so. Currently running on 4G internet, with my phone cosplaying as a router since mid-January. The service quality isn't bad per se, but it still sucks that I essentially can't use my phone to look for work etc. Rough start to 2026, right ? (And that's not even mentioning all the BS happening around)

Anyways, enough whining for one post. I'll see you guys on February, hopefully with a new build !