Light
- 10 Devlogs
- 48 Total hours
A living archive of a mind in pursuit of the unknown, built from the things it could not leave unexplored…
Ship #1
✨ Blessed
Final Devlog of Light
yep, as the title suggests, this is it.
I have somehow, despite being an INTP, been able to complete the project before the deadline ( or perhaps I should say, exactly at the deadline 😭)
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But anyways,
- Completed the Readme
- Fixed minor issues (console errors)
- Fixed responsiveness issues
- Added a favicon
And yeah, that’s all ig…??
It has been an honor tbh,
I’ve learnt soooo many things while making this site… and revised soooo many concepts…. I was lwk a beginner in web-dev before this, and now, well a bit better I suppose? 😭
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Either way,,,
It was fun…. :)
Thank you for everything..!!! ❤️🩹
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P.S. Idk what to add as screenshot for this one, so just added the About page of my site 🗿🤷🏻♂️
Day-9 Light
I think I’ve officially reached the stage where this project is consuming me 😭💔
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I couldn’t really write devlogs that often ‘cause I’ve been just TOO busy trying to make this thing look pretty 😭
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And unfortunately, having a creative perfectionist brain while also trying to keep everything minimalist is an awful combination. I kept wanting to add stuff, removing it because it was “too much”, adding it again, moving things around, staring at it for 20 min, and realizing that it looked 4% worse than before 🗿
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Anyways…
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I’ve made some pretty major progress today.
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The biggest one: Light is basically complete.
Added all the content, finished the different sections, and finally got the whole thing to feel like an actual part of the site instead of an empty page with suspicious amounts of negative space 🥀
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I also finally added and polished the About page, w a bunch of minor design fixes along the way.
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Completed:
- Unfinished
- Graveyard
- Now
- Curiosities
And I also added snow interaction, which is probably one of those completely unnecessary things that somehow took way longer than it had any business to… ;-;
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The funny part is, that the actual feature list doesn’t even look THAT insane. (compared to my mental health rn 💔)
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But every single little design decision took FOREVER, because I wanted the site to feel minimal, without feeling empty.. Interesting, without feeling overloaded.. And slightly uncanny without just looking like I discovered CSS animations yesterday 🤷🏻♂️
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At this point, I’m lwk happy w how it’s coming together tho.
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The site has WAYY more personality now.
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The next goal is basically finishing whatever tiny things are still bothering me, and then SHIP EM before I lose the remaining fragments of my sanity 😭
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And nvm,, that’s it for today ;-;;;
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Ig this could be the last devlog? Or nvm, I still have to write the Readme, GG, that should be the last one lol..
Whatever,,,,
Good Evening 🦋
Day-8 Light
At this point, I think Im lwk about to crash out because of how long this is taking me 😭💔 (plus a bad headache)
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I’ve added a new page to my site, called Light’s Lab, something way more interesting than the home page fs.
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Also Added a cool glitchy effect as a transition, to give it that uncanny feel…
And DAMN it took me soo longg to learn how to do ts 😭😭
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After this, I’m done with adding animations/transitions 🥀
Aghh my head hurts so badd 😭
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I think the next goal for me is to design the Lab page properly… then think of adding something new…
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Initially I planned to complete it by Sept 30… but let’s see if I can 🫠
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Anyways, that’s it for todayyy
Dobroye utroo!!!
Day-7 Light
It appears as if somoene’s genuinely addicted to this project 🗿
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Because my productivity is PEAK right now 🕯️
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I’ve lwk changed the entire base design of Light, simply because I felt like it 😭 (I wanted it to look better)
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Here’s a list:
- Added Basic fade-in animation when site is loaded
- Added a leaning hero-figure and changed typography (Some fonts, sizes, colors, etc)
- Added a glitch effect for the Hero sub-text
- Added Snow, as it smhow fits the theme beautifully
There were sm things that people suggested me to add, but I was like: Nah ;-;
For eg: Arrow key navigation
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But someone discovering that R jumps to Archive would be mildly amusing for approximately 4 seconds… So I scrapped that idea 🤷🏻♂️
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The snowflakes one was particularly interesting… because….
to animate the snowflakes I used:
new position = old position + velocity
Which is basically a tiny Euler integration step 🗿
So, my snowflakes, accidentaly became a physics simulation… 🥀
For some reason, I really cannot escape ts 💔
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And then the tiny intricacies like giving them close but random velocities for realism (yeah, close, because if not: that would look like the snowflakes had all received contradictory weather reports 😭)
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and once they leave the screen, make them re-enter from the right and top (70:30 :: Top:right % of snowflakes generated),
which is what turns this into a continuous wind field rather than 80 flakes having a one-way death march 🗿
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And yeah, that’s basically it, for today…!!
and as usual,, Ohayoo!!! (Good Morningg, not Ohio 😭💔)
Day-6 Light
HOLYYY Productivity!! 🔥
Added SOOOOO many things today
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Here’s the list:
- Polished the Archive section
- Added “About signature” and href links
- Added content to Contact section and footer- Polished them too
- Made the site responsive
- Added selection option (selecting a text)
Soo, when selecting a text, instead of the default blue color, it’d use another color that respects the color scheme of the site…
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With that, Phase-1 of the Site is over… We have a site that’s essentially complete in itself start to end.And so, Phase-2 of Light has started, which is mostly all about JavaScript and additional sections/features. (Lwk Exciting as hell)
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Also, I decided to add “AUTONOMY · TRANSCENDENCE · ERUDITION” as the “About Signature”, because these are the 3 things that I value THE MOST… Especially Autonomy………….
Is it a bit grandiose? Yeah… but my site’s called Light (Alchemic Eclipse), so we’re not exactly filing taxes here 🤷🏻♂️🥀
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But anyways,, that’s it for todayy!!
Have a beautiful morning 🍀
Day-4 Light
Guess who’s back?
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Seems someone’s back from his hiatus 🗿
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yep, so now that’s Aporia’s done and dusted, I realized I need to also complete my site, so here I am…
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I’ve merged Gravitas into Light because it’s apparently Aporia turned out to be too big, but small enough that I could actually finish it before Light comes knocking with a deadline shaped baseball bat 🤷🏻♂️
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I’ll add a special section for it on my site, as a mystery or a puzzle of some kind..? perhaps…
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And in the meantime, while I was working on Aporia, I tried testing/changing some bits and features of Light, at once almost changed the entire style upside down… but turns out none of them could beat my original vision… So with some bits of tweaks, I added the About page a month ago… I know I’m a bit early here,, but whatever 😭
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And that’s it for this devlog 🦋
Bbyeee..!!
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P.S. Idk what screenshot to add here as I’ve just restarted working on it so no major updates yet,, let me just add a page of my physics notes which would anyway be on my site 🐈
Day-3 Light
At this rate, it looks like the project is gonna take forever 😭🤷🏻♂️
- Added an about section
- Designed it properly
- Made subtle changes to give the site a premium look.
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The next part is simply add content to Archive and contact section, but that should relatively take less time, because most of the time today was spent on designing..
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(yes, btw,,,, if you still haven’t noticed, I’m a kinda perfectionist when it comes to designs 🗿)
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And that’s all for today, for Light 🫡
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Thank you for reading through..!! 🌙
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P.S. Due to time constraints, I’m thinking of working on Light and Gravitas on alternate days, so that I get more time for studies… 🐈
Hopefully I can finish them soon..!!
I really do enjoy working on both of em 🙃
Day-2: Light
- Completed the basic structure.
- Added some basic design while making it a little responsive.
And trust me, you “don’t” wanna know how much time I spent just changing and trying new designs/fonts/etc… ☠️
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Tomorrow, I’ll likely complete the other sections while adding some more cool features ig…
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and that’s all for today 🙃
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P.S. Feel free to suggest some better designs if it can make it look better lol…!!
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The Beginning
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I’ll be building a personal site of mine, describing things I am working on, and my on going works, especially in the realm of academia and others…
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I am done with setting up and connecting everything,
the next steps include building a basic structure of the website while learning web dev (yeah, I’m a beginner lol)…
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And then adding the content..
Then making it look bearable to human eyes 🗿 (aka make it aesthetic)
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So that’s mostly all for today..!!
Thank you :)
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P.S. It seems it won’t let me post till I add a pic, so let me add a pic that I’d anyways add on my website in future {aka, my equations 🗿}
