#blog
2020-05-22
This site exists again!
And we're back!
Some twenty years ago, I ran dreamwriter.de as a personal page for my projects. Then I left school and had a lot less time on my hands, depression hit and the big content aggregators changed the way the internet looked. So I let the site waste away and gave up the domain. I put my pictures up on deviantArt and the rest of my stuff on various other platforms, or I simply did not publish it at all.
Recently I was curious if the domain was still available and how much it would cost to host a website again. It turns out: it was and less than a cup of very mediocre coffee per month! And so I’m giving this another go. Right now there’s just this blog and a bunch of pages without content. Before I put more things up, I want to write a little program to automate a lot of the busywork. The pages will most likely still be just static content, same as 20years ago, but with way less work for me :)
I could of course use one of the many solutions that already exist for this problem, but where’s the fun in that?
#end blog
#picture
2020-05-23
char_coal_fairy.html
char_coal_fairy.png
char coal fairy
a fairy drawn with a few strokes of charcoal
2016-05-12
Charcoal and pecils on paper
#end picture
#update
2020-05-24
added contact info to the left
index.html
#end update
#picture
2020-05-24
lariloo_laliley.html
wiz8_loo.png
Lariloo Laliley
a flying fairy with a big sword drawn in pencil
2016-04-24
Fairy Ninja from a Wizardry 8 party.
#end picture
#picture
2020-05-24
renardine.html
wiz8_renard.png
Renardine
an antropomorphic wolf fighter with sword and shield
2016-04-25
Rawulf Lord from a Wizardry 8 party.
#end picture
#picture
2020-05-24
kayka_narsarda.html
wiz8_kayka.png
Kayka Narsarda
a female fighter with a spear
2016-04-27
Human Valkyrie from a Wizardry 8 party.
#end picture
#picture
2020-05-24
the_librarian.html
wiz8_librarian.png
the librarian
hairy guy carrying various contraptions, musical instruments and a gun
2016-05-26
Mook engineer and bard from a Wizardry 8 party.
#end picture
#picture
2020-05-24
dot.html
wiz8_dot.png
Princess Dotina Francesca III
elven pristess with a miter on her head
2016-05-26
Elvish bishop from a Wizardry 8 party.
#end picture
#picture
2020-05-24
ignus.html
wiz8_ignus.png
Ignus of Gavonny
bald mage summoning dark magic
2016-05-26
Human psionic from a Wizardry 8 party.
#end picture
#picture
2020-05-24
dreamwriter_storyteller.html
dreamwriter_magic_3.png
the Dreamwriter as a storyteller
a dwarf sitting by a cozy fireplace reading a story to goblins and monsters
2015-01-19
It's me, reading a story to the little goblins and big monsters.
#end picture
#picture
2020-05-24
seraph_of_dusk.html
seraph_of_dusk.png
Seraph of Dusk
an angel with a magic hammer in twilight
2015-02-05
"The sun rises and falls, but my watch is eternal."
#end picture
#picture
2020-05-24
firin_anar.html
firin_anar.png
Firin Anar
a mage with horrible burns and bandages all over his body drawn in pencil
2016-06-05
One of the heroes of 1()13.
#end picture
#picture
2020-05-24
harpy.html
harpy.png
Pajaro de la luna
a harpy on a cliff in front of the moon
A harpy who loves the moon. Thanks to the folks on the dict.leo.org Spanish forum for help with the name.
#end picture
#picture
2020-05-24
great_green_hippo.html
great_green_hippo.png
The Great Green Hippo
a goofy green hippo holding a trombone and a beer
2017-11-04
I was thinking about religion and took a stab at inventing one of my own. This is the god of that religion.
#end picture
#blog
2020-05-24
Update on the state of dreamwriter.de automation
Since the last blog post I have been working on the software to automate a lot of the html work for the website. It's a horrible spaghetti mess and fairly brittle right now, but it does the job, as this blog post made with it shows (So meta!).
I use a text file as a poor mans database to define the content. Here's an example of what it looks like:
#blog
2020-05-24
Update on the state of dreamwriter.de automation
Since the last blog post I have been working on the software to automate...
#end blog
#picture
2020-05-24
great_green_hippo.html
great_green_hippo.png
The Great Green Hippo
a goofy green hippo holding a trombone and a beer
2017-11-04
I was thinking about religion and took a stab at inventing one of my own. This is the god of that religion.
#end picture
From that the program makes the front page, navigation, blog and all the galleries and individual picture pages. As soon as I get it in presentable shape, I'll put the thing and the documentation up on the software page.
I would also like to get a forum up. Since I have little interest in coding that myself, I'll look for a ready made solution.
#end blog