I may not be an artist, but I'll make something here goddammit

Welcome

It's me

No name feels quite right in a space like this.
But look around long enough and you'll find some in more appropriate places.

I program. And I read. I like to make little things when I can focus enough to manage it. I hope one day I'll make something wonderful. And if I do, I'll put it here, safe and sound.

Book List

  • S (Ship of Theseus)
  • House of Leaves
  • Invisible Cities
  • The Stormlight Archive (1-4)
  • Jude the Obscure
  • if one a winter's night a traveler
  • Pale Fire
  • Crime and Punishment
  • Demons
  • The Castle
  • The Metamorphosis
  • The Trial
  • Cloud Atlas
  • 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
  • This Is How You Lose The Time War
  • The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
  • Apeirogon
  • The Language of Thorns
  • The House in the Cerulean Sea
  • Wieland
  • Interior Chinatown
  • On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

What am I reading right now?

Don Quixote, Cervantes

pssst. hey! over here.

Hello there!

Welcome to my little home. I've heard that in times past, this was all that there was. Well, that certainly isn't the case anymore. Sometimes living in a world built for us is tiring, and so I came back here to work a little form from the formless.

I suppose I'll put my portfolio here. And my thoughts. And whatever other knick-knacks I find along the way.

Feel free to kick back and make yourself at home!

08/20/2025

Back from Worldcon 2025, reorganized my portfolio page and changed up its color scheme. Also linked some more random experimental pages here, but they're a bit broken.

I tried out VSCode's Copilot integrated assistant features, so that I could get a sense of what "vibe coding" is actually like. You know, gotta know my enemy, in a sense. But now that I've enabled it once, even now it's trying to suggest what text I should be writing here, like an overeager puppy. It worked surprisingly well, although I ended up having to rip of the overly clean page it generated for me and add some of the organic grime that I like. I'm not sure. It's such an odd feature to me. I can't say it doesn't work, but it feels... wrong.

It feels as though every conversation I have about my studies end up coming around to AI. Especially with non-technical people. Everyone has to ask me about what I think about Copilot coming into the professional workspace, and I have to explain that I don't think it will replace programmers that I think that it is bitterly ironic that it seems poised to replace software developers before it replaces artists. But I think that that's natural. Programming is seen as a means to produce a product, not something with soul. Of course a machine could replace that. The notion makes me sad, but I don't think that enough people share the same wonder for computers these days, and so what can you do? I should at least know what seems to be coming.

Writing this down here, so that I can see how my outlook has changed in the future.

07/24/2025

Marking this day as the day that I have returned to finish making this place. So much to do, both here and outside. Things are so stressful these days, but I Feel oddly like I have a solid grasp on everything. We'll see how long that lasts.

02/10/2025

Okay, I really need to go to sleep. I have a bunch of meetings tomorrow, and I gotta finish (fix) my computer graphics homework. My line rasterizer is still super scuffed.

02/10/2025

Working on this into midnight, that makes this the second day. Heck yeah

02/09/2025

I can't tell if this site is impossible to look at or if I've just been staring at it for too long.

NOW PLAYING
Desert Winds

Happy you feel as you climb up along its ears, almost falling into its cavernous mouth, to the belly-summit and look out over the pink woolen landscape of the rabbit's body, a country dropped from the sky; ears and limbs sneaking into the distance; from its side flowing heart, liver and intestines.

Happily in love you step down the decaying corpse, through the wound, now small like a maggot, over woolen kidney and bowel.

Happy you leave like the larva that gets its wings from an innocent carcass at the roadside.

Such is the happiness which made this rabbit.

- Hase

I'm studying this site to figure out how to approach the 3-column layout.

It's super cool, check 'em out!

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