24th October, 2026
Starting this today! My hope is this will be a fun way for me to share my life online without resorting to shitty platforms. I saw the weblog on coolguy.website and thought, "That's sick, I should do that," so here we are.
I have a lot of old film photos on this site right now that are all very compressed. This is my own fault: I handle image compression with a script, and a lot of these images got processed again and again and again until they're kind of a mess. For example:
So my plan over the next couple of weeks is to pull out my backups of these pictures, compress them sensibly once and replace them. Maybe slightly worse from a page-loading perspective, but a lot better artistically. Maybe even make a gallery to show these photos in a better light. I'm proud of having taken them and developed them myself; it seems right to do them some justice, doesn't it?
What if I used nginx as a web server? That's what I've decided to do. I've converted a subset of my site to static HTML served with nginx, and I'm going to convert things slowly and deliberately. There might be some link-rot, but everything will eventually return.