About

Locynaeh among other names.

Passionate by art (especially music, traditional drawing/painting and woodworking) and what can nature show us, I’m also interested in botanics and astronomy from time to time. Some computing takes me quite some time for few years.

Curiosity brings me here, welcome to you !

This website began around 2014 as an excuse to learn few technical web things. It was plain HTML5 and CSS3 (not yet welcoming flexboxes at the time). Adding a new page was a bit painfull as I had to copy an HTML kind of template and complete it but also had to upgrade navigation bars each time.

I quickly learned some PHP (5.x like version) to facilitate the inclusion of reccuring elements (footer, navigation bars…). Less painfull but still not easy.

I learned a bit more PHP to be able to create a kind of ugly MVC (entirely written in procedural programming, still didn’t understand OOP at the time) to build the website by reading from a MySQL database the articles written in a kind of custom markdown with a custom made parser. It was done in goal to learn a few basis in programming and I learned through this that web technologies weren’t the best fertile soil for that purpose.

Few years later, I proceeded to properly learn real basis programming through Python, even though I still don’t use it much.

I purposely wanted to rebuild this website with a static generator. As I love reStructuredText, I choose Sphinx for this new goal. I didn’t wanted to learn anything new and wanted something simple, understandable for me so I customized the Alabaster default theme by overriding it CSS (built-in functionality) to make it a green dark theme adapted to my liking (so using the same BSD-like license if you wonder). They are still some visual inconsistencies due to the fact that the theme is on one hand made “the old way” to organize blocks and on the other hand was thinked totally monochromatic. Still, it is done now. I hope to find the motivation later to create a clear and simple green dark theme but it’s not the time now.

I’m really grateful to all the FLOS (Free/Libre Open Source) softwares and arts I used across the past years to arrive here today. This website was hosted quite a few years by Toile-Libre, thanks to them !