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Projectblog.me

It's been a while. I began a blog during my freshman year of college, in 20134. It was called projectblog.me — and yes, that was its URL. My domain registration expired long ago, but the projectblog.me archive has been reuploaded for posterity (and humility) here:

During the life of projectblog.me, it was also used to host projects written in HTML/CSS/JavaScript. Some of it is not bad!

projectblog.me Projects

It was remarkably hard to recover all those projects! A few of them contained links to assets that I had to find on The Wayback Machine and download. (I'm a little surprised the site was even indexed; but hey! That's what the Wayback Machine is for. Ever wonder what percentage of votes the purple M&M got in the great M&M Global Color Vote of 2002?)

I didn't like projectblog.me very much. So, before long, I wanted to build something new; something I would be more proud of; something that, maybe, would impress somebody! I was in college, so I figured my website was going to get me a job. That became the plan: a great, big, impressive, job-getting website... which would definitely not seem embarrassing later.

Fiddlenaut, Fool, and just a waffle

The plan was to build something professional to replace projectblog.me. Something... better bragger. The waffle logo dates from this period. But the original logo had text overlaid, like so:

I never got around to actually finishing the website. At the time, I was attending a Summer Start-up Incubator at school, working on a little project "company" called fiddlenaut.

Fiddlenaut was the "company," which was created to build a website editor called fool. A lot of my time during this period was not take up building fool, however: it was taken up by my discovery of Borderlands 2. Best-laid plans... et cetera.

When I was being productive, I created a lot of assets. Nearly everything on the fiddlenaut and fool pages, I designed myself: the logos, the little planet icons, the cursive text, the layout and the color schemes. I still sometimes try to do design work. I guess I never learned my lesson.

I've reuploaded the fiddlenaut and fool webpages for posterity, just like projectblog.me. The project never went past pulling off some demos with smoke and mirrors, but here it all is:

Fluffywaffles.io

Years later, I revisited the website. I taught myself snap.svg during a weekend hack session with a friend and added animated syrup droplets to the waffle logo.

Then nothing. Fast forward another few years: I've moved to New York City, and fluffywaffles.io comes online for the first time. It takes its entire color scheme from my vim config, except for the waffles. So... it looks just like my text editor. :)

It's not built with anything. Just some HTML templates and some CSS. Nothing flashy to get people excited about. It's just... a blog. Which feels appropriate.