26/11/22
Welcome!
A little place for me to live out my nostalgic days in peace and pay homage to Yahoo's Geocities days. Did I have a website back then? I made a website in high school once for a project, dabbled in a couple of blogs in my late teens and early twenties, but nothing ever set for the long-term either because I either became to preoccupied with study and work or my once burning hot interest fizzled out. I'm pondering whether I should port my Wordpress blog over to here because then I get and more control over here and I don't just keep getting followed by a bunch of How To Grow Your Blog™ blogs. We'll see.
You're probably wondering why anyone would want to go back to those crappy old days of dial-up where you'd have to fight your family over the phone to connect to the internet... well, I'm kinda a sap and think about things that once were but are no longer, like MSN Messenger. Strangely though, a remnant of my childhood, Neopets is still alive and kicking.
I feel like a lot of things were simpler back then. Of course, the flow of data and information is so fast now and there are so many upsides to this - the boom in remote working, for example. But you see, with all this stuff zooming around, algorithms displacing content and polarizing us, it's hard to sift the real from the fake. I believe in self-expression and it's funny that the world's been turning, a lot of these Neocities pages really do look like they belong in the 90s (not a backhanded compliment, just an observation, really).
Here, I can actually embed my codepen that I whipped up diving back into HTML and CSS with Duke's introductory programming course:
See the Pen Hello World! by jellypuff (@jellypuff) on CodePen.
So yeah, maybe you know what? I think I will.
Stay tuned.
18/02/26
It's been awhile (okay, years) but I'm alive!
Happy 2026, Year of the Fire Horse. May you all be healthy and well. ʕっ•ᴥ•ʔっ♡⚝
Many updates in my mind but it's a very strange timeline to be alive right now. It's definitely warm and I'm sweating so I'll cool off before I get back to things and while I reaquaint myself with neocities.
04/03/25
Quizás, Quizás, Quizás
So... I'm looking for alternatives to things like Spotify after deciding to stop paying for Premium (which I shared with a friend and pretty much the only reason why I kept it so long, but she hasn't complained) and go back to free or better alternatives. At the very least, they shouldn't be funding things like ads for ICE or buying military weapons, while raising subscription prices and ripping off artists simultaneously.
I thought about Bandcamp and it looks like they also support streaming embeds, which is nice. I stumbled across this little gem which reminded me of my childhood days, playing kids games on the school classroom PC :')
I'm also slowly weaning myself off social media platforms, because I think it's pretty obvious that most accounts are bots now, farming for engagement through ragebait and/or collecting personal data for nefarious purposes. And of course, most are run by either lizard people or neo-Nazi multibillionaires or soon to be trillionaires.
And this is partially why I'm bringing back this website. It's not particularly pretty but it is REAL. I also don't have those damn MAGA or TERF narratives pushed onto me when I clearly do NOT support those twisted ideologies, or anything adjacent to them.
And I'm also looking for other alternatives since Discord decided to thinly veil their data collection/surveillance state efforts (with ties to that Trump-backer Peter Thiel) under age verification to protect children.
(RIP MSN, you were truly great until Microslop decided to turn you into crappy enterprise Teams software. Also shoutout to old school Clippy, who sometimes gave silly suggestions but at least he wasn't a sycophantic AI chatbot with no guardrails pushing vulnerable users to psychosis)
