Written by Daniel R.
Last Updated: 14:21 21/05/2026
My thoughts so far...
Welcome to my personal blog! I made this website as a personal project for fun and to try out something new. It’s more of a creative outlet than something professional so be warned! I wanted to make a website with some character, with a nudge to the web revival movement, which is focused on reanimating the feeling of ‘surfing the web’ and creating meaningful social websites.
This website was made with Astro which I have found to be absolutely brilliant. Astro is a very intuitive framework that allows for
rapid development and easy content management. As this site is mainly static content Astro was definitely the right choice.
It also doesn’t feel cluttered or bloated at all, which is very refreshing!
The font is the Old School PC Font Resource’s IBM VGA 8x16 which I absolutely love and I think looks
quite classy.
I have also really enjoyed trying to make the website look more old-school with CSS and lots of custom styling. Who knew if you put some work in, projects
can actually look half decent!
You’ll notice I also included a canvas with Conway’s game of life playing on it. I find the game of life fascinating; how so few rules can lead to such
complexity! I will be displaying some of my favourite patterns on the homepage :)