I don't think I ever "officially" plugged my portfolio website, and only quietly linked it here and there. But last fall, I found a host and bought a domain and here it is:

🌟🌟🌟 https://www.pepperly.art/ 🌟🌟🌟

Last week I finally finished the bones of a major coding overhaul, which most importantly hides the .html ending, and it also has an almost-automated page generation through templating with 11ty & nunjucks for significantly easier updates. With a ton of templating and crazy coding, updating for both desktop and mobile, adding new stuff to navigation, and even RSS'd the blog-based updates, are all so smooth now.

I use Boostrap to make the layouts, and SimpleLightbox handles image browsing. I've got thumbnails generated through thumbsup. It's so much cleaner and easier to update than my previous try, which was a huge mess and was so hard to manually update that I haven't done so in a year and a half (version 1 is my current neocities page which I'll be transforming into something more fun in the future). Templating is so easy to work with that I'm almost excited to do continuous updates. I'm also really happy with how the commission sheets look compared to my first iterations, and I got good feedback that even mobile works well (I hate browsing the internet on my phone, so I just tried to make it not frustrating).

So yeah! I just wanted to publicly announce it, finally.

Also, I did Jamuary! I don't think I'm "good enough" to post here, really (the skill of NG musicians is not to be reckoned with, and I'm a coward), but I collected everything from the past month into a playlist on itch.io. I used MeowSynth for almost all the songs, so I playfully called it Jameowary. They're mostly silly and fun, and this is only starting my third year of messing around with music in between other projects, so don't take them too seriously. Even if you don't have time to listen to some beginner's goofy album, I listed some of my favorites on the page. Or you can ignore it completely, heh. It'll be nice for me to look back on, eventually. Maybe.

I have last year's Jamuary also uploaded there, mostly for archival's sake, but maybe don't listen to that now. 😰 That one's less fun to look back on. (I still like a couple songs)