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title = "about this website"
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This website was first uploaded on 21 February 2024. 

The site is built with [zola](https://www.getzola.org/) (a static site generator built in rust) and hosted by [gitlab pages](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/pages/); everything is cobbled together in [VSCodium](https://vscodium.com/). The current layout is heavily inspired by the 2-column iframe layouts of the 90's/early 00's, but done with responsive css (and a smidge of javascript) thanks to [this tutorial](https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_sidebar_responsive.asp) from [W3Schools](https://www.w3schools.com/).

This place would not exist without the help of my good friends [lucidiot](https://tilde.town/~lucidiot/) and egg, both of whom helped me a lot with coding, troubleshooting, and proofreading. (thank you both sincerely from the bottom of my heart, you are indispensable homies and I am eternally grateful!)

The site buttons were made by me in [paint.NET](https://getpaint.net/). The sidebar tile backgrounds I found in an image search for tiled bgs (which I then edited heavily) and I unfortunately do not know who originally made them; if you do, please [contact me](/contact) so I can give credit! The sidebar image for the sakura theme is from [zeud](https://www.tumblr.com/zeud).

Some photo editing (brushes, blurring, filters) is done on my phone with either [Line Camera](http://linecamera.snow.me/en) or [Bestie Camera](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bestie-portrait-selfie-editor/id953511734) (also available [on android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=us.pinguo.selfie&pli=1)). Much of the pixel art is snagged from [various](https://lostsozai.tumblr.com/) [oldweb](https://cutewebgraphics.tumblr.com/) [uploaders](https://pixel-soup.tumblr.com/) on [tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard/hubs?filtered_tags=decome). The peach bullet is from [king lulu deer](https://www.deviantart.com/king-lulu-deer/art/Tini-Peach-677927551) on deviantart, and the sakura bullet is by [acryllia](https://www.deviantart.com/acryilia/art/Little-Pixel-Sakura-Bullet-Dark-741631116). My counter is from [fc2](https://counter.fc2.com/).

The last.fm now playing script on my [now](/now) page is by [@biancarosa/lastfm-last-played](https://github.com/biancarosa/lastfm-last-played). Current mood is powered by [imood](https://www.imood.com/), and status at the top of the [now](/now) page is powered by [status.cafe](https://status.cafe).

The fonts used on this website are [Hezaedrus](https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/hezaedrus) by [Hubert & Fischer](https://hfs-studio.com/); [Hylie](https://befonts.com/hylie-font.html) and [Obliviate](https://befonts.com/obliviate-font.html) by [createshaa](https://createshaa.carrd.co/); [Firstly](https://befonts.com/firstly-display-font.html) by [stormyseas](https://befonts.com/author/stormyseas), and [Doki Doki Mono](https://diefonk.itch.io/doki-doki-mono) by [diefonk](https://diefonk.itch.io/).

Various icons (rss, theme toggle, up & back arrows) are from [phosphor](https://phosphoricons.com/). 

Code syntax highlighting theme is [fairyfloss](https://sailorhg.github.io/fairyfloss/) by [sailorhg](https://x.com/sailorhg).

Tested in [Firefox](https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/new/) on Windows 10 (I know, gross) and also on [Firefox Mobile for iOS](https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/browsers/mobile/ios/).

### link to me!
if you'd like to link to me, I've provided the following buttons! if you do, [let me know](/contact) so I can return the favor!

![peach moon 50x50 button](/img/peachmoon50.gif)  
![peach moon 80x15 button](/img/peachmoon8015.png)  
![peach moon button static](/img/peachmoonstatic3.gif)
![peach moon button static](/img/peachmoonstatic.gif)
![peach moon button animated](/img/peachmoon.gif)
![peach moon button animated](/img/peachmoon2.gif)  

### milestones
- **2024.09.17**: 1000 views
- **2024.08.11**: 900 views
- **2024.08.05**: 800 views
- **2024.07.14**: 600 views
- **2024.06.30**: 500 views
- **2024.03.08**: 69 views