website I finally made a new homepage, and wrote about it in my last blog post. links Art in the Pre-Apocalypse by Jacob Geller – a video essay! about games and movies and the end of the world. It’s lovely. I’ve had this saved to watch for a long while now. Christopher Kirk-Nielsen’s website redesign is so stylish...

Earlier this week, I published a new homepage (version noir), which takes the form of a comic. Haha, get it, anhvn.com, the vn stands for version noir, but also anh stands for a new homepage, haha hahahaha. I’m hilarious. Half of my conviction to finish this over the weekend was so I could make this joke. Finish it...

This website Media diary filters At long last, I got around to adding filters to my watchlist and reading list. They’re never going to be as flexible or data-rich as Letterboxd or Goodreads, but I enjoy this bit of extra control. I’ll have to add similar filters to my games list as well, and probably make use of a...

I haven’t written about my website setup in a while, and I thought it’d be nice to compile all the different parts together in one place for easy reference. This post assumes some familiarity with Eleventy, the static site generator I use. I don’t mean this to be instructive, but rather just an explanation of how I...

Note: If you're reading this in a reader app, the layout's going to be borked with all the images—my apologies. Please check it out on my blog itself for the proper display. These days, I feel more appreciative of art. I think, AI can't make this. People continue to create and share things that are surprising,...

Here are some things I would like to tackle this year Write a long, in-depth, high-effort blog post about some topic—my website, a project, a travel post, a setup post, whatever. Experiment with lino printing Experiment with and practice creating comics Daily comics Comic Anhs (in its initial incarnation) A polished...

creative things In the past few weeks, I: Built my listening room (and wrote a post about the process) Participated in hourly comic day. Most years I do it traditionally, and they’re always extremely low-effort. I’m glad I drew quite a number of hours this year. Drew more often overall, which feels really good!...

Last weekend I built a page that I’m calling the listening room. It showcases the six latest songs from my ‘on repeat’ music list in a fun little room setting. the listening room I had been wanting to do something new with my music list for a while, and I had an abandoned project along these lines—place SVGs and...

As more time passes since my last weeknote I feel more and more stressed about the number of things I need to cover and feel too overwhelmed to start the next weeknote sitting down to write and not writing. So, I've decided. I don't have to write a long review every month. There are no rules! I'm going to write this...

Another year, another recap. Here is the highlight reel of all the stuff I enjoyed this year: film & tv, music, games, and books. I record all this in my Media Diary. Film & television My watch habits this year turned out to be similar to last year’s: I watched 49 movies and 15 TV shows (versus 48 and 13 in 2022,...

Two weeks after my last weeknotes, I was thinking to myself, hmm I should start on my next entry, and then I thought, no, it’s too early, and now it’s been a month since the last. Redesign progress it’s…going. Slowly. I feel distressed that I started more than a month ago and I’m still not done. I’m trying to will...

to summarize: trying to redesign, internet reading list, way too much minecraft, and some other media The latest hyperfixation Redesigning I’ve started working on a site redesign. I’m bored of how my site currently looks—this design (which I’m calling version 5) has been around since May 2022. The homepage has...