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I find working on my personal website to be soothing. It’s one of those never-ending projects in a good way, and I work on it in small bursts of energy whenever I have the time and inspiration. I’ve added a handful of new features in recent months and, uh, I’m sorry.
Some of these features are an attempt to revisit the glory that was the Geocities-era web; you might have noticed the glittery cursor trail (based on the excellent cursor-effects
), or the animated snowy background that only shows up in December.
I’ve added custom emoji that I can easily use throughout the website (with Hugo shortcodes), here’s a small sample:
![:disappointed-cowboy:](/img/emoji/disappointed-cowboy.png)
![:disappointed-ghost:](/img/emoji/disappointed-ghost.png)
![:grimacing-cowboy:](/img/emoji/grimacing-cowboy.png)
![:microheart:](/img/emoji/microheart.png)
![:drake-dislike:](/img/emoji/drake-dislike.png)
![:drake-like:](/img/emoji/drake-like.png)
![:thonk:](/img/emoji/thonk.png)
![:thinkrosoft:](/img/emoji/thinkrosoft.png)
![:pwease:](/img/emoji/pwease.png)
I use a lot of custom emoji on Slack and Discord; adding them to my website was the logical next step. I’ve also been toying with the idea of letting readers emoji-react to my blog posts but haven’t quite come up with a design I’m happy with. Speaking of emoji…
![:raised-eyebrow: raised-eyebrow](/img/emoji/raised-eyebrow.png)
![it's-a me, Reilly! Reilly](/img/main/headshot.jpg)
![:cowboy: cowboy](/img/emoji/cowboy.png)
These features are pretty dumb and they’d never make it past design review in the real world. In a way, that’s the point. Let’s make websites fun again.