As mentioned previously, after the loss of Skippy, I was set back but not undetermined to continue along this path to fast flying mini chainsaws with tiny little cameras on them. This time I took a short cut and bought a tiny little Plug-n-Play (PNP) quad with 3 inch props, the GT-M3.

Whilst cleaning up my room I quickly got distracted with the fact that my microSD flash cards were in disarray and loosely placed here and there. Clearly, organising my room had to take a break whilst I sorted this out.

I wouldn’t consider my self an ‘Eco-Warrior’, but I do care for this planet, and wish to see its full splendor intact (or as intact as can be) well into my old age and my children’s old age and my children’s children’s old age; I guess the more selfish argument for ecological sustainability. Regardless I like to try to figure out how much of an impact I’m having on the earth myself.

So back in November I posted on Instagram about the new drone/quadcopter I just built, in an attempt to get back into drones and FPVracing. After that first post though, a keen eye will notice I never mentioned it again, until now. This is the rise and fall of Skippy.

Side scrolling games have used parallax for many decades already, giving a sensation of depth with very simple graphics. It took a while but shortly after the release of CSS3, websites started popping up with it too, bringing that depth into the internet, sometimes as a gimmick, sometimes to great effect for interactive stories. I always liked it and set out to have some sort of parallaxed aspect to the blog. Here’s how I made the splash screen to the website.

After a lot of blood, sweat and tears, I finally got the website to its minimum viable state: splash page, blog, and about-me section.

Email spammers use bots to crawl the internet and make note of the mailto: links scattered around blogs, forums and websites to build their massive lists of potential phishing and spam victims. Having a plain text email anywhere on the net is bound to get caught sooner or later, so many have developed simple obfuscation techniques using javascript to minimize the exposure to spam, whilst still being convenient for users. Here’s my attempt!

What better way to keep track of progress than with a blog post! The past months have ended up being much more busy than what I expected and I had broken the live website with a template change so I had shelved the blog for a while. Now however, after a very busy weekend working on my CV I decided to go at it again, fully dedicating myself because what’s the point of half-assing a website. I imagine once I have it up and running It will be much easier to just focus on fun functionality and blog posts rather than this change which seems to be in the limbo.