ANHVN
ANHVN
Anh
hi there! i’m anh, a designer and artist this website is where i do silly web experiments and put all my personal content. it’s often experimental and messy so please pardon the dust!!
Latest Posts
This week I redesigned my homepage to look like chat bubbles. an introduction to myself, like i am texting you Writing vs. Texting I initially made this because 1) I was bored of my existing homepage, and 2) I wanted to try a format that...
It makes me feel depressed to give up, but I’m shelving my ~halloween website idea~ that I’m unable to finish before, well, Halloween. So, the context Back at the end of September, I started thinking about doing a fun spooky homepage on...
I’ve added my sketchbook back to the site nav. I can’t remember why I originally removed it. It may have been because I hid it on my homepage and thus had to also hide it in the site nav. Whatever the case, I’m over it. I put it back....
A standard heading: large, eye-catching text. It announces a new topic, organizes your writing, helps the reader skim. A small heading: it blends into the text. It says, rather than announces, that here is a new topic. An example Last...
‘I should blog more,’ I think, as one does when one has a personal blog. But writing is so hard, and writing about something worth reading about is hard, and self-doubt is so easy. Here’s what I’m pondering lately: The current project:...
I’m starting a new homepage redesign—the concept is ‘responsive comic.’ Here’s an old sketch I sliced up to test. One of my goals is to play around with how to rearrange compositions based on screen size. Sketch based on a scene from...
I’ve rebuilt my photo gallery. There have been many iterations of this as I try to maintain a personal alternative to Instagram; here is the latest. the new gallery History A few years ago, I spent a few months maintaining a daily photo...
I love to discover new things that make me feel colossally stupid for not doing them sooner. That’s the best kind of discovery! This is the Markdown Optimizations Edition. With that said, this involves a fair bit of Dependency Stuff, so...
I’ve been using a 4-star rating system for my watchlist for a while now, but I’ve had a consistent problem: most of the time, I end up rating something 2/4 because I think it’s fine. Currently, my system is: ★ = didn’t like ★★ = pretty...
I’ve created a Reading List. When I designed it, I knew I wanted something different from my watchlist, which I’m no longer a fan of. I like the neat grid of Daniël van der Winden’s reading list, and admire the effort and detail of...
I finally went and fixed up how I was managing my data on my Lost Sectors and Nightfalls sites. When I first created them I structured the data by season, and now that multiple seasons have passed it was annoying to manage duplicate sets...
I meant to write a comprehensive post about my site redesign, but honestly I’ve run out of steam and instead I’m just going to write some messy notes for the sake of actually publishing it. Context: I redesigned my site the other week!...
I started building a to do app, which is really more of a journaling app. I’ve reached the point of getting tired of the build process though, so I’m switching to writing about it to reboot my brain. This post is intended to be a public...
I haven’t written anything lately and I also feel like I’m not thinking about much worth writing about lately, so I’m not writing. And the longer it drags on that I don’t publish something, the more pressure I feel to make my next...
I built a new PC last week. I had bought my previous PC from a friend five or so years ago, and it was showing its age in its inability to run games smoothly, which is really the only thing I care about. I’ve wanted to build a small form...