Announcements

It's been a while, hasn't it? Here, I'll catch you up on what's been going on.

First things first, the den. It's been sitting untouched for nine months now, and I'll be honest, I almost kinda forgot about it. Between college and life and all sorts of other stuff, I haven't had time to work on it. What brings me here now is the worry that Eris may no longer be able to host erisws anymore, leaving all the hosting and maintenance duties to me and the other admins. I'll be honest, despite the infrastructure upgrades, this whole thing is an absolute mess. If Eris does leave, I'll probably take it upon myself to try and streamline this whole mess, mainly with the focus of reducing any potential attack surface that doesn't need to be exposed. I'll admit that despite the mess, Eris has done a pretty decent job of securing and obfuscating the infrastructure from the outside world. I still don't trust it fully, though.

Outside of that, I've gotten a job, gotten into college, and completely overhauled my active pooltoy collection. None of the toys you see on the Oddities page are in active use anymore, and I need to update the photo. College and work have taken up most of my time, but I hope to be able to work on this page (and the underlying infrastructure) in due time.

So. My den's been offline for a while. I'm gonna be honest, the entire reason why that happened is because the node that hosted the website last time died to a software update, and we couldn't access it anymore. Now, we have a new node running the website!....... welllll... we've had it for quite a while now. Me and Eris have been procrastinating pretty hard on getting things set up again, and that's mainly because we wanted to revamp the entire website: no wordpress, just nginx and svelte. I personally plan on reworking my den a little bit, mainly on the backend to make it a little less cumbersome to work on. That means separate HTML documents for elements like the header and footer, a proper posting system for my announcements and projects, and maybe some additional features for the website here and there.

Outside of the website and hosting stuff, things have been going pretty well! I've got a new pooltoy and some new plushies (which means i'll be taking another group photo soon), I'm halfway through my senior year which means senior project stuff, and i'm working on a few new projects to add to the page!

Also, due to the previous node dying, the original version of this page has been lost. However, thankfully, I had the foresight to create a local copy (with local resources) just in case this happens so that it can still be reinstated!

This'll be where I post current events and whatnot pertaining to the page and my life in general that I want to share here. Remember that this page will be getting near-constant updates for a while, since it's my pet project right now.