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About Me

Varia

 

Welcome to Prima Materia! This is the blog attached to my personal website, varia.wtf. After many years of feeling discontent with social media, I decided to make a website where I can express myself and share my thoughts without an algorithm feeding me garbage.

While this isn't my first attempt at a blog, it's definitely the one I'm most excited about. 

Also Known As: V-guy, V-bear, Amanda Panda/Manda/Panda (as FFXIV Char.), BardCat, Juan Wick

Hobbies & Interests: figure collecting, drawing, writing, cooking, film, alchemy, Gnosticism

Favorite Lore: Girls' Frontline, Xenogears/Xenosaga, Remedy (Max Payne, Alan Wake I & II, Control), Forgotten Realms

Current Project: Kuleshov Effect (WIP) - Story/VN

I'll be posting updates on my writing and art along with posts about my interests. Feel free to contact me about anything you read on here. 

This blog is running on freshly installed version of Joomla (CMS), so I apologize for the basic appearance while I'm working on my website's design. 

Varia.wtf (v0.1.0) - "ENCORE"

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Hello friends,

I figured it'd be fun to document the development of the main website. I'm used to creating documentation at work now, so it feels natural to do it in my personal projects too.

SCM Music Player

If you've been to the main page recently, you might've heard new tunes if your browser has autoplay enabled for my website. 

Instead of going to bed at a decent time last night, I stayed up until 2 AM adding a new music player and curating a playlist from my YouTube likes. Yes, I was late for work again this morning, but my boss isn't upset at me because I do decent work so it was worth it. 

The Pros of SCM Music Player is that I don't have to store files on my website anymore. My current hosting option only allows about 20GB of storage and I can see it filling up fast if I ever decide to upload videos or really high res images. If there's a way to use my own files I'll consider it.

One of the main reasons for the change is that the original audio I had on the site was too loud and I felt kind of limited. With SCM, I can set the volume and have the playlist shuffle on default. Also, it's persistent so the music player will keep playing the song you're listening to even if you click on new page. This doesn't work with the blog, though. I'll have to make the blog open in a new tab. 

I don't think I'll document the changes to the playlist because those can change on a whim. For now, enjoy the tracks that I've added. The playlist is a mix of my personal taste. I actually rarely ever get a chance to share music with friends, so I'll kinda happy about this new addition to the site.

Plans

  • Design
    • I'd like to come up with a mockup of a design for the website this weekend. The current layout is more or less a funny thing I put together in 2 hours. If I have to go back to a plain black and white page for a while, I'll do it.
  • Pages
    • On the main page there are empty links to other pages. It's supposed to be my own spin on the different boards on 4chan, but I forgot what topics the letters represent (lol). I made a note somewhere, but I can't find it. Oh well.
  • Guestbook/Chat 
    • I'm still unsure about this one, but I think it might be interesting to consider. The website actually has a dedicated forum that I added as a fun test of the features included in my hosting plan. There's not much use for it at the moment considering that traffic is very low on the website and I'm not trying to build a community. 

I think that's all the updates for now. I need to organize the website's storage a little better and make sure images for the blog stay in their proper folders. Other than that, there's not much maintenance needed. 

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