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artist + perpetual student + webmaster + general nerd

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located in melbourne, australia. teaching myself to build websites and use linux. been online since 2008 and obsessed with preserving old tech and aesthetics. this is just a place for me to show the stuff im working on, and talk about the things i enjoy!! please have a look around, im sure theres something to pique your interest :3

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projects

tidal collab: a self-hosted docker container running in casaOS. tidal collab allows users to create their own tidal playlists, and sync them to a server-side playlist. anyone who syncs a playlist to the server playlist will have the songs from their playlist added to the server playlist, and songs on the server playlist get added to their playlist! this allows users to share and create collaborative playlists.

despite having a lot of issues with getting this actually working, namely problems with duplicate songs being added, and songs being readded after they're removed, this tool is working pretty well! happy to help teach you how to set it up for your own use :)

untitled dashboard project: a customizable dashboard that lives on your homescreen, for displaying the time, weather, emails, and calendar, as well as a window to type notes that will display on your homescreen at all times, and also sync directly into your obsidian vault daily note

this idea came from me desperately wanting a program that could run a sort of dashboard and could be used as an always on display for me at work, with the kinds of things i need to be checking a lot, but didn't want to be wasting time checking a million pages. turns out most programs to do this are for servers, or entire operating systems.

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peerchat: a terminal-based peer-to-peer chat platform (currently working on adding a voice-chat and versions for different operating systems)

peerchat is being programmed by cherry (cherrysofa.com)cherry gif with my help for research and design!

raspberry pi pager: an idea cherry and i came up with when we were talking about peerchat in its early development

the concept behind the pager is a small e-ink display with a slide out keyboard (you remember those phones in the weird flip-phone maximalism era where every company had a million insane phone designs? i miss that) with a few buttons programmed to send different messages and run different applications! it's a huge work in progress and we'll need to 3D print the casing for it probably but its a cool idea!

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update log

April 29th 2026

Moved all images into organised images/ folder.
Cleaned up HTML formatting and CSS.
New blog template with side-by-side layout.
Optimised all pages for mobile.

December 5th 2025 1:22pm

Added badges, stamps, and blinkies!!!
Adding scrolling marquees for said badges, stamps, and blinkies.
Added a pet!!!

December 1st 2025 11:30am

Created a CSS styling page and removed CSS from subpages.
Added star gif background to homepage. New blog update.
Set up the SSH key by myself (it wasn't hard at all).

November 11th 2025 7:20pm

Added a nav bar (with much struggle),
changed the background, changed border color, removed blog off home-page.

October 20th 2025 8:11am

Added CSS styling to photography, digital art, and misc pages.
Started using Zed as a text editor and pushing to GitHub through it.
Working on fixing some bugs with GitHub.

October 17th 2025 6:32pm

Began hosting site on GitHub!
Thank you to cherry and kyle for helping me set up the ssh
because that is a little above my paygrade (im stupid).

October 17th 2025 10:05am

Added an update log.
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