About

Hi, my name is Jia-Rou and I like to create things. Hence why I made this site, to show off my works and not loose ownership! I originally made my site on Neocities, but I found hosting to be limited on the free plan (still AMAZING) so I moved to GitHub pages.

Right Now

I am currently working on a bunch of different projects and by the time anyone is reading this, I'll probably have moved on to something else again. But things I like right now are: Skareboarding, Weiqi, Front end Development, Writing Poetry and Music. I will hopefully share my journey in all of the above categories, it'll be like my learning log of sorts. So expect guides, music, writings and occational drawings!

Philosophy

When I made this site, and all it's previous versions, I kept one thing in mind: consistancy. I want my developing to be as consistant as humanly robotly possible. Preferibly no set values, no 'one night stand' functions, everything is reusable and configurable easily.

FAQ

Why 11ty over Astro?

I tried a bunch of different SSGs (11ty, Astro, Hugo, Quartz, making my own, making another one, and a third), but ultimately decided on 11ty because of it's large ecosystem combined with it's lightweightness and speed. I am also crazy about folder structure, naming conventions and control so being able to decide all of that myself was a huge plus. I felt like other ones like Astro but especially Hugo were too 'batteries included' and I wanted something readable to me specifically.

Why GH-Pages over Neocities?

Neocities is amazing, a fantstic hosting service. With that said, I am a musician and will upload audio. I could technically use something like Spotify or Soundcloud but then I loose the whole point of the site, to own everything I make. However, I strongly recomend Neocities to anyone who either can use the paid plan or just doesn't upload audios.

Are you remaking it again!?

Yes, always. I am indecisive as a... I can't come up with an analogy.

What contents do you post?

I already made it very clear that I jump from project to project so I can't say for sure. What I do know is that I'll try to make guides (my favourite of the content types). I want to showcase my art like music, novels, poetry and photography. And Probably little notes through my journey of developing this site. I may make a blog/ diary section later on but I don't really know what would go into that category.

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