hermiene.net

Say hello to another new page, Twitch! It's a page I've long thought about making, and it's here. It's a work in progress though, but I wanted to push it out quickly so that I have somewhere to write down whatever new ideas I get for it, because I do really want to carve out some time some evenings to be able to stream again! Watch this space...

The spirit of Why Not-ism strikes again! This time I decided to simply upload my (very slim) web site from my university days, and file it under the Off-site section. It's in Norwegian and it's called simply USN (Universitetet i Sør-øst Norge, University of South-Eastern Norway). On it you will find

• two physics simulations written in JavaScript, one for Newton's Cannon and one for understanding various properties of transversal waves, and
• a series of articles and accompanying YouTube videos introducing trigonometry that I made for a didactics course in math.

Some of that stuff might later be incorporated into this site. I would definitely like to play more around with JavaScript and physics simulations!

I also fixed the link in the Off-site section for Llamaphobia, which for the longest time wasn't working! (I have no clue at all for how long, but I found out about it randomly whilst doing janitorial work.) Anyway, now it works.

I also decided to make all the links in the Off-site section open in a new tab via target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" which I believe is the industry standard way of doing it these days. Incidentally, this marks the first time in my web site's history that I'm forcing links to open in new tabs! For the longest time I've been against that practice, and in many ways I still am, but when links are clearly marked as being Off-site (in addition to that little "↗" up-arrow icon) I think it's fair. Not to worry: Those are the only links on my site that work that way!

Say hello to a completely new page, Scribbles, currently filed under Readings! For now there's not too much there except for three small "essays" I wrote back in 2009 (to call them actual essays is perhaps to ask too much). I randomly remembered that I wrote them, and thought "why not put them up?"

I also added a new section to the Links page, Gaming blogs. Currently there's only one entry, The CRPG Addict, and I'm not at all sure there'll be more links to come. In any event, that seemed a logical place to put that link, and I wanted to recommend people take a look at his blog, as it's really interesting to follow along on his path! He's on a quest to play every CRPG ever made, something that's mad, yes, but why not? (This, by the way, is just one of my current obsessions. Reading through his entire back catalog takes time, but I'm having way too much fun to stop!)

Until next time.

Life is churning along pleasantly enough, but I don't feel I pay enough attention to my web site, which in and of itself isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I'd like for it to be worked on more frequently from time to time. And who's working on it? Well, just little ol' me! So what can I do about? Well, hopefully, just this: pushing out an update.

The fact of the matter is that it's very much on my mind — a lot — and I do have plans for it — many — but... Well, no buts. I'm busy, yes, and I do have limited spare time, yes, but I also prioritize my dwindling free time on Other Things (TM), and some of those Other Things are not so important that they can't be dispensed with or cut down on to make way for more energy spent on the site.

Another thing that's bugging me regarding this personal decades-long project of mine is, well, I'm no longer too sure what I want this site to be, what I want to showcase, what I want to revise, etc. Suffice it to say that I'm very much thinking about it.

So is this just another post saying "I'm still alive?" In a way, yes. I don't have anything particularly new to write about, or showcase, or anything like that. Speaking of which, that's another thing: Do I want my news posts to just be status updates? Not really. I would really like to get back into a writing groove, a reading groove, which I'm not really in at the moment. I think I can use my website much more as a creative playground. I'd like that.

I do (very) occasionally get feedback on my web site in the form of E-mails, and I love that, because they're usually in the form of a thank-you note, and that pushes me on! So if you're reading this right now and thinking of shooting some text my way, hey, go for it! I'm not exactly inundated with E-mails (except junk and newsletters), so feel free!

Hopefully, the next update will see some new work on the Books page! Here's hoping.