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Aria (Aka: Mojo)

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The beginning (Again)

This is the first post of my new website.
Date: 17/12/2024

I’ll be expanding this as I work on it but for now this is my first more indepth website

The What

Well that’s simple to explain; It’s a website and you’re browing it now lol.

The Why

Recently I joined a community for some very 🏳️‍⚧️(mostly, there are many people of different identities there!) and it’s full of many very techinical people. It’s a cosy little community and I feel genuinely welcome there.

We where discussing domain names and this one wasn’t owned! I’m addicted to coffee so it seemed like the perfect fit for me~

A picture of the "Order Confirmed" pafe from cloudflair

After purchasing I needed to decide what I wanted to do with it, for a little over a day (Until not long before I started to write this) it just redirected to my BlueSky account.

I eventually got inspired by both Alyxia and Annie’s websites. Finally convinced to make something from scratch I made the website you’re looking at now!

This has been my first time working mostly from scratch to make my personal website, more on that described bellow!

The How

This website was made using Astro for the build system and I decided to use Tailwind instead of basing my own css off Annie’s after she convinced me.

A discord screenshot containing the following messages: Sent by @BuyMyMojo: "getting my brain around css and styling hurts, I'm man handling some of your css @amemoia", Sent by @amemoia: "DONT LOOK AT MY CSS ITS SO BAD", "EVERYTHING HAS ITS OWN CLASS", "USE A FRAMEWORK"

While I got started early on following the basic blog tutorial but took a break to make my very first 88x31px button!

88x31 pixel button with the text 'Aria' and the top half of a human human face on the right hand side This is a version of the image hosted on archive.org so the blog doesn’t change

I made it pretty quickly in Krita using the lovely picute of me which was drawn by Auryn!

88x31 buttons have a history that I wont get into here, you can read more here and if you’d like to see thhe buttons of my friends then go to the friends page If you wanna exchange buttons shoot me a message on discord!

Final thoughts

I am very greatful for these goobers who have inspured, ecouraged and debugged with me on this website, there is still a lot for me to learn about web development and more to discover about myself honestly.

I plan to make this website an outlet for a lot of my learning along with my already mentioned BlueSky and I hope you’ll stick around.

What’s next?

Not sure, I kinda wanna figure out how to add emotes like discord into these blogs because I’m an internet degenerate who feels the ned to put emoted in every message I send, after that I might try to style the website a bit more but I think it’s in an alright place for now lol

tags:

blogging

learning in public

development