👋 Hey!
Welcome to Finnegan's Fox Den, a place for self-expression and general goobery, including but not limited to personal projects, guides, and ramblings about various topics.
This website has been created as a way to rely less on social media for self-presentation. Before social media, people made websites like this one to show off their creativity, post pictures, write blogs, and do just about everything we do on social media nowadays. There was no moderation, data harvesting or algorithms to satisfy; only your own corner of the web you had full control over. I think that's a pretty neat concept! So that is, I would say, the over-arching reason behind this website's existence.
📝 Note
This website is still being worked on. Please excuse any broken links or missing pages.
A Bit About Me
The name is Finn/Finnegan, I'm 20, and I'm a sociology student. I like computers, experimenting with different programming languages and platforms, and I like making things. I especially like old computers, or any electronics for that matter. I have my own modest collection of old stuff, ranging from desktops to laptops to tablets to game consoles. I like tinkering with old operating systems and software, seeing how things were done 20, 30 or 40 years ago in regards to programming. I'm not exactly a professional in anything (apart from like...FNAF lore), but I like learning new things. If I had to describe myself in one word (well two), I'd say "goofy goober".
TLDR:
| Facts | Likes | Dislikes | Love/hate relationship |
|---|---|---|---|
| he/him | programming | when it's hot outside | politics |
| 20 y/o | old tech | hunger | Slovakia |
| sociology student | learning things | current state of the world | |
| Slovak 🇸🇰 | FNAF | ||
| le musik |
How Was This Site Made?
Fox Den was made it with a static site generator (SSG) called Zola. SSGs allow you to make templates for most used components of your website (headers, footers, side bars) so that you don't have to rewrite those components every time you add a new page. In addition most SSGs include the ability to convert Markdown to HTML, allowing you to write your blog posts (or any part of your page) in Markdown which is much nicer than writing in HTML. If you are in a hurry and don't have time to design an entire site yourself, you can download a theme someone else has made and get your website running in no time.
What I mainly like about SSGs is well... the static bit. An SSG is like a compiler, it "compiles" your templates and Markdown into raw HTML. There is no JavaScript running in the background or virtual DOM, it's just as if you wrote everything by hand, and so it's fast and bloat free.
Fonts and Stuff
This site uses the same fonts as gentoo.org - a site I like very much (not only for its design) and one I took a bit of inspiration from. So that is Bitter for headings and Open Sans for body text.