The December Adventure is low key. The goal is to write a little bit of code every day in December. - eli.li

Adventure log 12024

For my inaugural December Adventure, I will make this website more fun.

Over the last 3 years I’ve focused on making this website a long-term home for myself, focusing meticulously (well alright, somewhat meticulously…) on ease of editing, accessibility, future-proof, and content-first. This is good. It allows the pages to load fast, links long-lasting, and allows people to get to know me quickly.

But I also miss the playful side of the internet. I grew up in the Flash era. The websites took forever to load, broke all navigation expectations, and hasn’t been operational for a good 7 years now. But they were so fun. The internet was a more whimsical place because of them.

So I will try to spend this month doing little improvements and experiments to breathe some playfulness into this website. Don’t worry, it won’t come at the cost of inaccessibility and sluggishness, as the core functions and design principles remain fixed. And I have plenty of examples to follow.

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Adjusted the theme color, applying my favored color of #ff2851 and softening the background with a lighter black.

Part of me says this neon-pink-reddish accent on a black and white theme is too edgy, and either too dissonant with the often professional and serious tone of my contents, or enables misinterpretation of some page contents that do discuss serious risks (e.g. research on AI Risk). Let’s see how I feel in a few months. Does it feel weird to you?

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Now we have randomized footer quotes ^_^ I’m rather fond of my collection.

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I added another quote.

…Ok yeah that’s not really coding but I’ve been busy OKKKKK