So it has been a very long time since my last blog post. I'm very busy with my study and haven't been programming as much as I wanted to. But i have been picking up other stuff to do, which is nice.

After a quick question in the Jekyll IRC chat room i was told to use the _data folder instead of using the main site config. The main site config is only read on startup while the data you store under the _data folder is watched.

So I wanted to create a better projects page. One that generates itself and generates every project page from some kind of input. Enter the world of Jekyll generators.

So I haven't updated my site in a while now, aside for some technical details. But I have been working on DMP in the meanwhile. I have made such progress that I should update the DMP project page. But I also want to update my project page so it can more easily function as a portfolio. So the idea is to give a concise overview of my current and past projects and link to a more detailed view. But the problem is how can I concisely depict a source code project. Especially when it is a command line tool. So I cannot use an array of pictures, or at least it would look a bit silly.

Besides being a programmer I'm also a fan of anime and in lesser extent the Japanese culture. However I never actually visited one of the animeconferences in the Netherlands. There are atleast two big ones; Animecon and Abunai. So I decided (about a year beforehand) that I wanted to go to one, but I didn't want to go without cosplaying something. So me and my mother who is pretty good with so called needle and thread set out to make ourselves a costume. We spent several weekends over the course of a year to make the military costume of "Zechs Marquise" of the series "Mobile Suit: Gundam Wing".

While I like to see myself as a seasoned programmer, I had never set up a site on my own. I never had known where to start. So I began serching for easy to use frameworks to get me settled. One thing i really wanted to include was a blog, and when you want to include a blog of some sorts you kinda bump into either wordpress or jekyll. I figured that setting up wordpress can be quite a hassle. Don't get me wrong I don't fear setting up a database, I just think it's a bit overkill for such a simple thing as a blog. So I prefer jekyll because of it's simplicity.