Hi, i'm erfan and this is my personal website!

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More specifically, what i thought about when making this website

The reason this website exists

I just haven't found a place online that i felt like i could really make my own to crosslink, organize and display whatever i wanted so i thought fuck it i'll make it myself.
Maybe i haven't found that place for lack of trying but why should finding that platform be harder than making it myself like come on the year is 2021 as i'm typing this.

Main thoughts

• make it all from scratch, none of that premade template wordpress *this video was sponsored by* corporate waaay-too-squeaky-clean lookin ass look
  • i was starting to use the internet more while yahoo was a relevant company/brand beyond its answers, so i suppose i'm partially fueled by my nostalgia for a time when running into a scuffed diy website was more common than it is now
  • don't get me wrong i have no problems with websites that look like some rich dude's mansion and have animations that move like a space jellyfish through butter, some of them look very cool but that's not the look i want to go for
• usable for people who strictly avoid nonfree software
  • if i really need/want javascript, it's gotta be the free kinda js according to the 4 freedoms
  • do not track flags on all thirds party widgets i embed
  • other stuff i'll look into as it comes up
• i spend a lot of time typing thoughts i have into a text editor with typewritery monospace consolas/courier new lookin font so yeah
• i like black, blue and some white because a lot of my stuff is blue, black is easy on the eyes and white is a high contrast from the other two and well fuck now i look like i ripped the color combo from twitter/github/musescore
• needs to be easy to expand upon or change
  • early on i thought i could get away with copypasting my "banner" and navbar into every .html but i kept making more .htmls and realised well shit this is gonna be a nightmare to replace if i need to :")
  • dog bless jekyll with its {%include%}s
• it should be easy to tell when a page was created and updated so contents can be taken in with the context of when it was made

Inspirations

• stallman.org
• billwurtz.com
• vulfpeck.com
• yaml.org
• oldsidelinghill.com
• ben.balter.com
• robotsoup.com
• tiana.computer
• practically anything hosted off of neocities
• ari.computer

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