Hello my little Stardancers ✨

Devlog #2 for vensin.dev v2, and the site finally has a face.

I went full old-web: pixel fonts, little windows with traffic-light buttons, a starry sky in the background, and at first even cherry blossom petals floating around. I removed those after they kept drifting next to the title and looking like dead pixels. All the icons are pixel art too. I first traced the Steam logo by hand three times, and when it still looked like a potato, I switched to a proper pixel icon set.

The real star is the sidebar, because it’s alive. The Discord window shows what I’m doing right now. If I’m coding, you see the project, the file and how many errors VS Code is yelling at me about. If I’m watching anime, you see the show and the episode. If I’m on YouTube, there’s a progress bar. If Discord reports something the site doesn’t know yet, it sends me a DM so I can teach it. Below that, a “today” window flips between the date and the time in Tokyo, and my Apple Watch rings show up as little pixel rings, so now the entire internet can see whether I closed my move ring today. Bold of me, I know.

Next devlog: the music page, the anime log, and everything that keeps the data running behind the scenes 🫡