Welcome to a HunkMan's Litle World!

Finna Experience the Joy and Beauty of Making Stuff!

This little corner of the web is going to be a project where I hopefully shed some of my less productive notions of what it means to be creative (and replace them with better ones!).

As a kid and into young adulthood, I've had this notion that if you're going to do something at all, it must be "done right." I never had a clearly defined scheme in my head for what it meant to do something "right," so I would often kill plans in the planning stage due to them not being grand, thoughtful, or skill-demanding enough. This self-talk killed my drive to make things (music, websites, drawings, code, presentations, essays in school, ect.). I didn't realize what I was doing to myself at the time, but an idea that now pervades my personal geist is that "expression is the opposite of depression." I was depressing myself without knowing it.

To push back against this voice in my head telling me that I'm going about personal projects the "wrong way," I've decided to lean into that feeling and generate the first draft of this website from a template (thx sadgrl.online). Normally, I would consider this some kind of grave taboo and that I should learn how to do all of the html things before making a site and that a template generator is nothing more than a sad crutch. Now, my learning philosophy has changed, and I see this premade format as a jumping-off point (the way that this template was designed to be).

I have zero clue which changes I will want to make to this page, but they will probably occur to me by the time I'm finished writing this first draft of website text.

- Improvements I Oughta Get To -

Clean up opening text. Find a way to get rid of the top bar without breaking the formatting of the whole page. Make the cursor turn into a pirate ship when hovering over the water GIF (Now that would be epic). Find an implement a better looking color-scheme for the page. Move the css code to its own file/folder. Put assets together into a folder. Commit to a color scheme, dammit.

- Update Log -

Dec. 8, 2025: Changed colors of several page elements from pink to teal. Created a variable for the color of all the teal-colored accents.

Dec. 1, 2025: Changed some colors/ Made everything worse for the time being.

Nov. 30, 2025: Changed background GIFs and headers on Biblio and Bookshelf pages to match home. Reordered the update log from Old-New to New-Old. Corrected some spelling on the homepage.

Nov. 26, 2025: Changed header image on home page. Fixed navbar text on biblio page.

Nov. 25, 2025: Doubled the size of the water GIF in the background to double the epicness of the page. Created a secret page that I'm probably never going to link (I wonder if it's easy to find and conversly I wonder if there're ways to hide it). Created and linked the biblio page. Created and linked a list of books I've read/ am reading. Grey-ed out the currently selected page's link in the navbar. Made the boxes for Hobbies and Ongoing Projects level.

Nov. 24, 2025: First major edit after completing tutorial: Commented out original html. Inserted page template. Wrote 'purpose for posting' schpeel. Started update log. Hobbies box on the left. Ongoing projects box on the right. Added Links to awesome sites. Added a tribute to my GOATs. Added "Fixes I Oughta Get To" section. Credited sadgrl.online for this webpage's template. Changed background GIF to flowing water from sparkly night sky.