Projects
these projects encompass all of my digital efforts. offline hobbies and creations can be found elsewhere in the museum.
good internet magazine
i had been hankering for a handheld, physical representation of this hobby i've dedicated some years to with some regularity—i suppose, as a former journalist, i just missed magazines. i put out feelers on mastodon, and before i knew it, i was launching a print magazine. i could not have done it just by myself; folks from all over the world submitted articles, tutorials, and essays about this side of the web. issue one is out and available at different levels: free zine edition, a paid digital edition, or a paid print (and digital) version.
this project is ongoing and published biannually.
marigold town
part webhost, part collaborative project, part visual search engine of the personal web. marigold town is a free webhosting provider that is centered around the idea of websites being physical places within a small town. on its homepage, all hosted sites maintain a 'plot of land' on a map. marigold town is a whimsical take on webhosting.
this project is ongoing.
the 32-bit cafe
while this started as an 18+ safe-for-work offshoot of the yesterweb discord, the 32-bit cafe has grown into its own entire cross-platform community of folks who are all about getting others to create their own websites on the internet and building up the personal web.
we do our own seasonal events, code jams, and group activities. we plan on offering additional services in the future that help with the indie/small web. currently, you can get an email address, join our forum, find a ton of resources for web-building, read tutorials and guides, and join our tilde server.
this project is ongoing.
webrings & cliques
i'm really interested in keeping parts of the personal web alive that existed long ago but in a modern and more grown-up way. as the indie/personal web grows, the opportunity for folks to link their personal sites collectively is great. there's the added benefit of creating and maintaining lists, which i weirdly love. plus, getting the chance to see the websites folks submit is insanely cool. i hope more people make cliques that bring more people into the personal web and create more opportunities for us to link to one another.
charm bracelets, a pixel club where members trade charms
patrons, a text clique celebrating mythology where members claim a deity to protect their website
PANTSON, a parody-named pixel-trading club for pantone color lovers
safonts, a webring for typeface enthusiasts, is now under melvian's care as of july 2025
these projects are ongoing.
visit riverton
riverton is a virtual pet and simulation browser game i'm building in PHP using mysidia adoptables as a base script. unfortunately, there's no documentation and mods have not been adapted for the new version, so this project is part passion project, part PHP learning lesson.
the idea is that players will be able to own virtual horses on a piece of land that you'll improve over time, including your stables and home. players earn money by racing horses, completing quests, and contributing to the growth of riverton. i want to have a ton of fun features, so hoping i can complete my to-do list with this game!
this project is in active development and is currently live.
pile of notes
i'd been looking for a microblog platform for a while that i could self-host and not have to use a command line to do so. chyrp lite has been a great alternative to tumblr so far, and so i used it for alexandra's pile of notes. i use this space to dump links, videos, make weird observations, and share things that are just in my brain. bookmarks tend to get lost for me, so this is another way of me keeping up with stuff i'd like to either reference later or make note of something interesting.
this project is ongoing.
alexandra's cafe
alexandra's cafe is a collection of writing in the form of coffee shop drink orders that was originally hosted on gemini. there is a combination of non-fiction and fiction writing intermingled with each other, hopefully tangling the notions of reality and story for readers. this mostly serves as an outlet for random pieces of prose i write that isn't fitting elsewhere. i initially wanted to keep these writings on gemini only; however, after a couple of years, i've decided to move them to the web, where i'm able to style the entire website based on a retro BBS vibe.
gemini is a really neat internet protocol that's a text-formatted alternative to https://. there's no html, only gemtext, the native language to markup text. what drew me the most to the project is the focus on written content, which requires a longer attention span than i think we're used to on the modern web these days. while there are images, they're not inline, so there's a bigger presence of ascii art.
this project is ongoing.
'la muse historique' translation
after doing some genealogy research over summer 2022, i came across research that i could be descended from jean loret, a writer who documented king louis xiv's court and parisian society. i cannot confirm this with certainty, but i can verify that i was descended from étiennette loret, a confirmed filles du roy — a group of about 800 french women sent by the king himself to quebec, a colony, to help colonizers make more families and, ergo, more colonizers for france.
there isn't much information about jean loret, but he left behind la muse historique, a published series of letters to the duchess of nemours in 1650, 1660, and 1665. it has never apparently been translated into english, nor has it been formatted for the web. the only copies of it are in scanned document services, such as google books. despite no fluency in french (or renaissance french, at that), i am trying to utilize AI to translate the entire work. unfortunately, this project is taking much longer than i initially thought, as i'm having to digitize printed renaissance french into typed text and only then use AI to help translate line by line, as i edit along the way. once translated, i hope to release this for free; however, my biggest hope is that there are some answers about jean loret's family within his letters.
this project is paused.