Hello there!
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me
Finally. I've been building this website for weeks now, and all that work brings us to this moment: the first log entry!
Styling and Accessibility
It's been a while since I've done some web development. I had forgotten how tedious it can be! Styling has always been the difficult part for me - tweaking things for hours trying to get them just right. Especially colors, ugh.
A huge shout-out to the SASS color.scale() function. Just about every color
on the site is scaled from a single base color in some way. I spent many
agonizing hours tweaking the colors to ensure that there is an acceptable amount
of contrast between elements. Which brings us to accessibility.
Admittedly, I have been very behind on web accessibility, but I put in a lot of time getting up-to-speed as part of this project. Accessibility is tedious, but it's important. Gotta bring everybody along. I've tried to make the site as accessible as possible, but I'm sure I've missed something. If you have any suggestions for making the site more accessible, yell them at me.
Writing
I enjoy writing. It's something I want to do more of. Writing to this log will be a great way to practice and measure my progress. Hopefully, my writing will also be helpful or at least entertaining to anyone reading.
I'm interested in a lot of random topics: books, movies, music, video games, anime, manga, other otaku shit, software development, game development, drawing, animation, language learning, Japan, Japanese, ancient Greece and Rome, Latin, the list goes on… Most, if not all, of these topics will likely find their way into this log.
It helps to write about new things as you learn or experience them. As Kurt Vonnegut said, "If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do." As I learn new things, I intend to write about them here. And when I've inevitably forgotten about those things in the future, they'll be waiting here to explain themselves to me again in my own words when I return.
There's still some work to do to get the site set up for tutorials, but that's another thing I'd like to write. These would be more in-depth projects where we would build something together step-by-step over several modules.
Yet another kind of writing I'd like to try is fiction writing. I love sci-fi and fantasy, and I'd love to try writing some of my own stories eventually. My plan is to start with short stories and maybe work my way up to long-form fiction someday.
Finally, some entries may invariably be me just yelling into the void. Sometimes I need to vent something, and this might be the very vent that something gets vented through. Again, I'll try my best to at least make it entertaining.
Up Next
One of the next few entries is going to be about setting up a LÖVE project to work properly with LuaRocks. As soon as I figured out how to do this, I thought to myself, "Wow, someone really should write all this down." Other than that, I've got a few ideas for some other initial entries. Can't wait to get started!
Until next time!