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Projects

• Mister Dizzy on Bandcamp || Mister Dizzy on SoundCloud - I make eclectically varied music.
• Mister Dizzy on Youtube - Mostly inactive, but my Youtube functions as a dumping ground for creative stuff that can't go anywhere else.
• My Github - I post random coding projects here.
• Dall-E Bias Tests - Testing to see if the Dall-E AI exhibits bias when given controversy-adjecent words.
• Neocities buttons! - Drag them around. Refresh the page for a different layout
• VOIDNet - An exercise in programming for the Web as a form of art. In HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Library

I've started a collection of interesting old TXT files from 1980s and 1990s News Groups, BBS, and Usenet servers. Occasionally, something I wrote might end up in here too.

• To the library

Pixelart

Visual art made on (or made by) a computer

• See the images

Hávamál

The Hávamál ("HAW-vuh-mawl") is a collection of old Norse poems, first passed as oral tradition and then finally written down in the middle ages. It is said to have been written by the Norse god of wisdom, magic, poetry, and war, Odin. It contains advice for living, guidelines on proper conduct as a host and as a guest, advice on women, and other ancient stories and wisdom.

• Gestaþattr - Often called the "Havamal proper," this section contains much of the main body of the poem's wisdom.
• Wifmann - Here, the poem gives some ancient and very direct advice on women. This is followed by a story about Odin and the daughter of Billingr, as well as the story of how Odin stole the Mead of Poetry.
• Loddfafnismal - Another source of ancient wisdom and proverbs. This time, it is addressed directly to someone named Loddfáfnir.
• Runatal - The story of how Odin obtained the knowledge of the runes by hanging from Yggdrasil, the world-tree, and sacrificing an eye.
• Ljoðatal - Descriptions of a collection of charms and spells known by Odin.

Links

• MDN Web Docs - The definitive documentation for Web technologies and scripting languages.
• textfiles.com - A mind-bendingly extensive archive of the pre-web and early web days of painstakingly constructed txt files. May cause you to feel like a wizard looking through a towering library full of scrolls; You have been warned.
• sdf.org - A public access Unix server established in 1987 that still runs as a non-profit organization to this day. Provides free Linux shell accounts to the public, and functions as a unique sort of "social network" in a slower, late-20th-century sense.
• hashbang.sh - Another public access Unix organization that provides free shell accounts on their server. This one has a bit of a barrier to entry, but is free to all curious enough to figure it out.
• Owlman Random Comic - Owlman is a neocities site packed full of cool stuff. One of my favorite highlights is the randomized comic strip generator. It pulls 3 random panels, and sometimes the results feel very much like a "real" late-90s internet MSPaint comic.
• Nathan's Toasty Technology page - A toasty page full of toasty things. I spent all morning on this site one Saturday. Nathan Lineback is a techy guy and his site is full of interesting things.
• Eldrich Data - This is the only website I've ever seen that requires you to turn OFF JavaScript before you can view it. Touché.
• Neocities!

About

I'm Mister Dizzy, a grumpy old wizard living in my wizard's tower in Appalachia. I'm old enough to remember the real thing, the original, Web 1.0, for real. I was there, and on dialup. The Web raised me, got me through school, and became my career. I taught myself HTML quite young, and started building things in middle school. I helped dig the trenches in which we now sit.

I was born on the east coast, but I am a native of the Web.

HTML, CSS, and JavaScript take up a majority of my brain bandwidth. Coding is a method of artistic expression that I love.

Messing with HTML on weekends had more effect on my life and career than 15 years of school. Might as well keep doing that. Join me, won't you?

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