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by FreesiaGaul 485 days ago
I 1000% stand behind this. When I was thinking how I was going to make my personal website personal - I really had to think. One of the great charms in "websites of the past" is all of the neat gifs and unconventional formatting. It has really inspired me in making mine (it's still under construction at freesiagaul.com).

Of course I'm not amazing, but frontend should feel like art, because that's what it is.

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When I moved into my current apartment I had a difficult task. On one hand, I wanted it to look modern and sleek. On the other, I wanted it to be mine. It's my apartment, nobody else's.

It is still huge work-in-progress and the amount of effort is way above reasonable amounts and it's going to be a problem once I want to sell the apartment, but I'm proud of myself, because I'm at the point where you can slowly see where things are going.

Awesome animation in the start.
Thanks! :D
I love the animation on your start page. Well done!
Thanks, I appreciate it! :D I'm planning on making many more, and hoping as I get better I can make little ascii-characters look as if they're interacting with the site

https://github.com/freesiagaul/site-ascii The code is super bare-bones for now, but it's been a great learning exercise for someone from an EE background