avanier's journal

this could've been a button

cue the grawlix

This site is 7 years old and has gone through many iterations, from its Jekyll-powered days to a short-lived Squarespace trial to its never-ending redesigns after being liberated from template-/platform-specific restrictions and granted full creative cont…

Like many people, I rely a lot on the convenience of search engines not just to find sites and documents but also for little things like converting units and currencies, checking the time in other places, getting the local weather forecast, looking up word

Earlier this year, I went to Kazakhstan and one of the highlights of that trip was a visit to Medeu where I went on a cable car ride with friends up to Shymbulak.

Yesterday, I went to see the Bangkok Art Biennale’s Nurture Gaia exhibits, which brought a welcome end to the past three months’ AI-generated photography exhibit* at BACC.

I like Saturdays.

We had a touch typing class in university — a mandatory course what with computer literacy being a core skill in this century — and the minimum speed to achieve to pass was 40wpm, which was a trivially low bar to jump over.

Playing around with multiset rewriting today using Tote.

This evening, I’d like to share how media files are organised and rendered on my website.

In today’s entry, I will write in Italian without any notes or dictionaries.

In an unfortunate coincidence, both my laptop and phone have defective pixels.

This is a post about how I organise my computer files.

CSS has a media feature called prefers-reduced-motion which detects if the browser is set to minimise motion in web pages.

I have a bunch of images I’ve collected from the internet over the years that I find æsthetically pleasing or inspiring.

I recently removed the status bar from my laptop’s dwm setup.