Thomasorus

The grind is over# Life has been busy in the last few months, which didn't leave me a lot of room to write.

Kaku 書く# Kaku (write) is my own markup language.

Ronbun 論文# Ronbun (paper) is currently the content management system (CMS) powering this website.

Questioning the JS frontend paradigm# Links with the &#9888 sign are, in my opinion, the most important ones.

Fighting games tournaments can still be great# Last week I took a plane to Lyon, France, to participate in a Street Fighter 3: Third Strike tournament.

The chemical love combo# Chemical Love is one of the a signature moves of I-no, a character from the fighting game series Guilty Gear.

Art journey# This page is a personal summary up my art journey, written to help me reconnect with my roots by listing my influences as well as some of my projects.

Aesthetics# I'm currently trying to define what my design aesthetics are.

AIDHD - AI coding workflow as an exclusion machine# I was recently diagnosed with an attention disorder with sustained attention issues, combined with planning and initiation difficulties.

Is frontend development a dead-end career?

2025# Despite everything happening in the world, 2025 was one of the happiest years of my recent life.

A list of JavaScript frameworks# The way the web was initially envisioned was through separation of concerns: HTML is for structure, CSS for styles and JavaScript for interactivity.

Cross platform web app solutions# A discovery list of technical solutions to produce a desktop and/or mobile app using web technologies.

Notes on BDSM# Side note This page contains my notes from the podcast Voidjumper & Nicole; on BDSM.

Drawtober 2025# For this year's drawtober, I will essentially draw concept arts for my own fantasy world.

Mandala# Final drawing. | Full size Concept# I had the idea while I was in a train for Paris in late November 2023.

Drool# The finished piece. | Full size The idea came from an inktober 2022 prompt: dream.

Moyō 模様# Moyō 模様 (pattern) is a collection of patterns in CSS I use for my website.

I built my own little CMS# After years of writing the pages of this website inside my code editor, it feels strange to write this journal entry directly in the website.

2024# A terribly hard year that was made tolerable thanks to creative work and wonderful encounters!

I tried coding with AI, I became lazy and stupid# Around April 2025, my boss at $dayjob insisted we try AI tools for coding.

2025 second quarter (+ 1 month)# The second quarter of this year was mostly dominated by my preparation for the art fare I joined in late May.

I exhibited my art at La foire aux croûtes 2025# The French word croûte can be translated to English as crust or scab.

2025 first quarter# I've wanted to write a few posts in the last three months, but never had the opportunity.

Blog Questions Challenge# I’ve been tagged by Gosha to answer the Blog Questions challenge!

Design tokens# Design tokens are single units of design reusable in several parts of the website.

Third Strike Ryu Matchups Notes# Side note Due to a bug, Ryu has +2 frames of additional block stun when crouched.

Third Strike Defensive and Offensive Mechanics# This page is a summary of the 3s After School Episode 2 and contains strategies to manage defense in Third Strike.

Ryūkō 流行# Ryūkō is my design system, currently powering this website.

Contrasts in drawing# Contrast is instinctively understood as the balance between dark and light values.

Composition# Composition is an abstract language that can be manipulated to achieve artistic goals.

Drawing notes# This page aims to collect notes from various ressources I encountered while re-learning to draw.

Where do I code from here?

New CSS that can actually be used in 2024# The amount of CSS novelty in the last two to four years has been staggering.

2023# Yes, it's a year recap two months after the year ended.

2022# It pains me to report that 2022 was quite a shitty year.

2021 Year review# 2021 was both the more exhausting and relaxing year I experienced in my life.

Now# What I'm working on right now.

Design and disappointment# After I became a front-end developer, I thought liking design could differentiate me from others in my field.

Tree Search Algorithms# When working in trees, moving inside the structure is often called traversal.

Trees# A tree is a linked list of nodes with a single, root parent.

Quicksort# Quicksort is a sorting algorithm using recursion.

Arrays algorithms# Side note All code examples are in Typescript ArrayList# An ArrayList uses an array as a fundamental data type instead, and then practice linked lists operations.

From static site generator to static site processor# My website was in a state of rotting for a year, but I'm finally happy to report it's fixed now!

Spinal disc herniation# This page contains practical tips and observation from carrying for my partner, who suffered from spinal disc herniation in 2013 (ironically, my father also had spinal disc herniation).

Everything you need to know to choose an office chair# It's 2021 and we're still destroying our backs and vertebras with gameeerz chairs.

Understanding memory, bits, bytes, addresses and hexadecimal# Memory can be understood as a space that is composed of bits.

Some cool HTML interactive elements# You might not know these but they can be super useful.

Drawing# (The drawings in this page were made between September 2021 and February 2022) I've been drawing since I was a kid, but was never very talented at it.

Art Eater provides in depth discussion about visual art in contemporary culture# Full size Art Eater was initially the personal blog of Richmond Lee, where he published posts about animation and cultural influences in video games.