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Updated 20210101

Who, me?

Played video games growing up, wanted to do game development, was alright with computers, common nerd story. Somehow that translated into studying electrical engineering, and now I mostly write firmware during the day. When I have time and am feeling up to it I'll read, ski, see friends (in 1 BC1), do a bit of hiking or climbing, or chat with twitter friends.

Email: huan dot nguyen 94 at gmail dot com
Twitter: @HuanWin

Why are the dates written weird on your website?

Somebody told me that YYYYMMDD is clearly superior 2. See IS0 8601 for more information.

Why Neocities?

It's free, and it reminds me of the web when I was just getting online. Flash animations, quirky websites, you name it.

Why not use (Wordpress/Hugo/Jekyll/etc)?

This is for fun, for the simple pleasure of making something with no stress, no abstractions3.

Where can you learn to create something like this site?

If you have even a passing familiarity with HTML/CSS, you can view the source of this page -- try pressing Ctrl+U, or Cmd+U for Mac users, or right-click and click 'View page source'4.

Sign up for your own (free) account at Neocities and copy some of the code into your own website's HTML file.

I've taken inspiration from a few other places, of which there's a list in the appendix near the bottom of this page.

No need to stress out about static site generators, Wordpress plugins, all that extra stuff5. You can put something on the web in just a few minutes!

Appendix

Website inspiration

  1. Before Coronavirus. ↶

  2. I'm still verifying the truth of this claim. ↶

  3. I suppose maintaining hand-coded HTML/CSS -- and maybe JavaScript -- would itself be stressful. ↶

  4. Note that the code is pretty sloppy, does not (yet) follow any sort of standards, and is probably internally inconsistent, as a constant work-in-progress. ↶

  5. I got a bit of exposure to web dev in high school, and was just naturally interested enough to pick up a few things here and there, enough to tinker and have fun. And that was what really kept me going, enough that (years later) I was able to do some full-stack development for a project at work. I think of it a little like exercise -- it's good to learn a little here and there, and continue to engage a little in it over a long time, than to dive in once and abandon it forever. ↶