I’m a visual thinker. If you say “glorbulorp”, I see glorbulorp in my head, in three dimensional space. I can grab and rotate to view another angle, or zoom in and out to view details. I can even remove or add more things to glorbulorp, like a party hat. It’s fun and exhausting to think like this.

My intention with this website is to write down my thoughts, kind of as they happen, I try to just let it go, with little editing. To write more like me as my head goes. Mostly for myself, like a journal.

Perhaps fun for others to discover, and maybe learn something from. Whoo! Maybe Whee?

A code and video game detour

Lately I’ve rediscovered code, early in my life (I was 7 years old with access to a MS-DOS computer) I attempted to code a video game, but I gave up somewhere along the way when it didn’t do what I wanted it to do. And everything was text! Code isn’t visual, that takes a while for me to process, and definitely when said text doesn’t make.. sense? I’m in an existential quarrel with myself, because my work require me to understand and write a small amount of real code, so I’m doing the everything all at once method to learn. I’m jamming everything in and shutting my flaps to see what stays.

I’m learning Python and (maybe) Lua by making video games.

In Python I’m making Stable together with a colleague. He’s coding, I’m arting and coding tiny bits, together we’re moving the game along. Stable is a game where you sort blocks into boxes, there’s also a creature that eats, and bombs! It’s currently in an early playable stage, with a lot to be done before it’s playable.

In Lua (PICO-8) I’m making Bloob on my own. Bloob is a dungeons & jellies video game, where you move a blob made of jelly (not a human being made of jelly like me, see footer) that wants to escape the dungeon to get to the land of jellies. It’s in the Joacim has no idea what he’s doing stage where there’s mostly thoughts, words, and sketches. Nothing playable yet. It’s a comfortable place to be, and I need to get a playable prototype going.

Long story about one thing, leading into another thing, and then coming back to itself.

Anyway.

Back to my website

I previously used Google Sites to write and host my website. It was super restrictive, I couldn’t format and style the web pages how I wanted them to look and feel. And I didn’t learn much from simply publishing through a content management system.

This website is another adventure in learning, so far it’s using MD, JSX, Astro, React and Tailwind CSS. The possibilities feel almost endless, I can make the website look and feel however I want, and add whatever features I want. It’s fun to learn how to use these tools, and to make something with them. I’ve already learned a lot.

I make sure to always find time to do personal projects. At least 15 minutes every day. My ongoing projects are fun icons and Miu the cat.

Once in a while fine people send me an email and ask me to make icons, a logo, or an app prototype for them. I like that. Get in touch if you want to work together, or say hi.

I’m not going anywhere with this post. It’s just exciting to have a place where I feel loose and free to write whatever I want, and not feel any pressure of making or writing a post this way or that for someone on some social media platform to look at for a second or fifty, then scroll past. Somewhere I probably don’t own what I post myself, and the platform owners can do with the content as they please whenever they want.

I don’t want that. So I’m just gonna write whatever I want on here, and I’ll have fun doing it.

Pancake Website stack 🥞

This website is built on several technologies to be able to float into your eyes and/or ears, like it’s doing now.

• Astro for generating the site.
• Markdown for writing blog posts.
• Tailwind CSS for styling.
• React for building components.
• JSX for writing components.
• GitHub for storing code and other files.
• Vercel for deployment and hosting the build.
• Cloudflare for domain management and email forwarding.

Have fun, play video games

That’s a wrap for my first post. I’m off on my adventure in The Last Guardian! That’s a video game. Yes, I like video games!