october 7th 2025

first steps

so, here's a website. my main goal for this website is making a website. i do program in python at my job but i've ever done html or css or js. i do use git (albeit not very good), and i would like to figure out how to manage the process of making this website locally and then pushing all changes at the same time.

as for content, i've figured i'd put something about the projects i've just started. i think it'd be cool to do blog-like updates. no idea how to do that in a not so manual way. this would be like a first blog entry. can i add like timestamps? no, that's i think too advanced, most probably javascript stuff. i'll add today's date to the header.

so, what have i achieved so far? i've learnt what looks to be a very basic way of reusing some structures, and i've used it for a banner and a navigation menu. it's rather rudimentary and it works, although it seems to have a fraction of a second lag to load that i don't enjoy very much. chatgpt (ugh) told me to do this:


          function includeHTML(id, file) {
            fetch(file)
              .then(response => response.text())
              .then(data => {
                document.getElementById(id).innerHTML = data;
              })
              .catch(error => console.error(`Error loading ${file}:`, error));
          }
          
          includeHTML('nav-placeholder', '../page-navigator.html');
          includeHTML('construction-placeholder', '../construction-banner.html');

we'll see if that's actually a good way to do that.

i'm also thinking, in terms of content, that i could explain about my arduino project. which is also kind of the same vibe as this: i'm doing something that might be useful ~maybe~, but mainly i'm doing it for fun and to learn.

i don't know about all this registering the progress thing, tho, cause it does add some steps to the thingy. well, we'll see.

i also want it not to look like shit. for now it's black and in comic sans and with a monospace font for the links, which honestly feels like a good take for me. but idk, maybe incorporating some ux/ui very basic shit that i'm learning at work could be fun too. i'll probably keep the comic sans. feels post-ironic to me. this is what it looks like now:

A screen shot of ene-googolplex index page. it has a slightly light black background, with white comic sans text. there's an upper banner with yellow and black stripes that read UNDER CONSTRUCTION, and a left navigation pane that is a box with even lighter black and orange and pale yellow links. there's a small pixel-art cat cuddled in the upper-most left corner.

the cat in the upper-left corner is copied from miravete-cat and is from webneko.net :3

i think for now i'm gonna center in deciding what to make out of the "projects" section, and then maybe center on git-deploying and proper reusable and easy to manage folder structure. u know, make it profesh but keep it fun. for me, that is.