Hi there! Greetings, good day, and thank you for visiting what is possibly the best website in the world.

My name is Joe, and I’m a software developer, tinkerer, hacker, and maker. I’m interested in taking odd and interesting things apart, taking photos and videos of them, and seeing if I can make them do something else. Hopefully, this website will allow me to post what I come across, as well as any other thoughts or observations on my mind.

Projects

I’m also struggling at learning how to model things in CAD, to be 3D printed. So far these have been very odd things that I’ve wanted to print just to fix a very particular problem in my life - I’m learning that this is a common reason to get into making your own 3D printable objects. Regardless, I’ll be sharing a bunch of my models if I think they could be useful to someone else.

Lastly, while software development is my day job, it’s also inevitably my night job as well. I don’t have many public repositories that demonstrate my raw power and talent, but if I write something that I think could help others, I’ll try and put it here.

Your website is cool! How did you make it?

This website was created with Jekyll. I know both Ruby and HTML/Sass, so it only makes sense to go with a static site generator that uses both minimally. Above all else, I want someone to be able to archive or rip this website easily - I don’t care about comments or any other fancy features - I just want to write words in a format that will maybe be around in 500 years’ time. Humble, I know.

In terms of the layout, I think I did it wrong. Well, not ‘wrong’, but I’m not sure how to create a new theme so I kind of just hacked on the default ‘minima’ theme. This is certainly not ‘minima’ (more like ‘retro-a’), but it works for me. I wanted to make a homage to the early web - I think websites should be a personal reflection of the author, rather than a carefully manicured but generic template. In keeping with the that spirit, most of the GIFs and image assets were ripped using GIFCities.

Who drew the picture on your header?

My friend Krupa drew the picture. It’s based on this photo by Esther Horvath.

How can I get in touch with you?

My email address is joe@svbnet.co.