Jul 18, 2026

In this update, I decided to bring back the blogs tab after 2 years. I'm keeping it simple for now, but I plan to give it it's own page with a different theme in the future. I'll have to do some thinking on how I want to lay it out, I originally wanted to keep this visual layout for all pages but I think it could be more fun to do something new. I dug through my commit history and luckily I was able to find my old entry.

I made some visual improvements as well. I fixed the overflow settings, chronological order of updates, added a translucent background and glowing effect to the title, and added the animated RGB effect to the scrollbar and I think that turned out pretty cool. You can use the ::-webkit-scrollbar and related pseudo selectors to style the scrollbar and it's elements. It looks there are some new(ish) scrollbar styling options which may be more widely supported, I'll have to do some experimenting.

I initially had some difficulty getting the animated background color to work. Firstly, animating the color of the scrollbar thumb directly didn't seem to work. To get around that, I learned of the css @property declarations. Animating the --rainbow variable color and applying the variable to the background color works. The second issue I found was animations on the ::-webkit-scrollbar-thumb selector didn't run, so I had to instead run the animation on the root. This caused issues with interfering with my other animations and I had to refactor them to get it to work without messing up the other ones. I found inlining the animation statements rather than setting each property individually seemed to fix the issue.

I did some code improvements and refactoring, added arrow key and tab navigation (kind of scuffed but I'll improve it), and I also updated the easter egg, I won't talk about it here but let's just say it has more impact >:)

Jan 18, 2025

Added a projects tab and a project detail page

Dec 27, 2024

In my last update I added a blog tab to the site, but I decided to remove it - because I can. I updated the Whoami section with favorites that can be revealed by hovering- while impractical, it's kind of cool. I am thinking about what else would be cool for this site: a news-style banner for the footer, more pages, maybe one talking about some of my projects? I also added a hidden easter egg

Dec 17, 2024

So far, I have been mainly experimenting with css animation and transitions. I have used transitions before, so the button hover and click are nothing new to me, but I never realized how simple the animations could be before I tried with this site. The first animation I made was the opacity and color of the main content background which I think turned out fairly well. Other than that, I added a content transition which I think looks pretty good when changing tabs; I did a fade-in and used position: relative to make it float in from the right like a PowerPoint transition. I also animated the footer whenever the page loads which I think looks slick on my curved monitor.

I always liked the translucent background blur effect backdrop-filter: blur;, so of course I included that in the footer and the body.

THRONGLER IS BACK | Catching up

Jul 18, 2026

Hi all, it's been a while since I last posted to the blog or updated Throngler's corner in general. A lot has happened in between then and now. I started a homelab, lost a grandparent, graduated college, got a full time job and a new car, had some MAJOR health expenses, cool vacations, and a lot more in between. I won't get too far into all of that in this blog, but I might talk more about them in the future depending on how the wind blows. Anyway, sometimes it feels like life just gets ahead of you, and it gets difficult to find the time or energy for hobbies. I think a combination of acclimating to working 40 hours a week and all of the negativity going on in the world of tech (let alone the world in general) just burned me out from a lot of my interests and hobbies.

With all that said, I'm feeling inspired after seeing some of the work people have put into their NeoCities. It reminded me of why I first started messing with computers and the internet all those years ago. I'm hoping to bring some of that fun and magic back into my world with Throngler's corner. I hope to get back into the habit of working on this and surfing other people's sites rather than scrolling youtube. I'm also hoping to get more into this blogging thing as I think it will be good for me to have somewhere outside of my head to put my thoughts. I've never been a fan of most social media sites due to their hostility towards privacy and the manipulative and harmful designs they use. Privacy is something I find essential while its slowly being erroded away around us and I've taken (and continue to take) many steps to improve it for myself and my family. I think the original reason I took away the blog was out of concern of possibly revealing too much, but I think having a good outlet for creativity and way to connect with others more will be worth compromising slightly.

The first entry

Dec 17, 2024

As the semester is coming to a close, I thought, why not start a blog on this site? I have just finished my second-to-last final, and I think it went fairly well. That leaves me just with the final final tomorrow to study for, which I intend to after a short break. I am happy to be almost done; honestly, this semester has been fairly easy compared to some I have in the past, but senior year hits differently. I think my main goal for next semester will be to get a job lined up, but for now I think I will rest a while.

iBook g3 (clamshell model)

Jul 23, 2026

I've had this old iBook g3 collecting dust for a number of years and recently, I decided to pick it up again and see what I could do with it. It took some trial and error, but I managed to get it connected to the WiFi. I ended up creating an SSID without authentication (on a VLAN of course), and that managed to work. I tried out a few websites including https://info.cern.ch and a few modern ones. Most of the modern ones didn't connect at all, but it was cool either way getting to browse some older ones. Out of curiosity, I tried updating it and to my surprise, it actually worked! Apparently apple still had a working update server for this old of an OS.

There are a couple hardware upgrades I have planned for it to hopefully bring out its full potential. The first one I'll tackle is RAM; I have a 512MB card waiting to be installed to replace the 256MB one which would bring it to a whopping total to 576MB (I got the ram!). If this works, it will give me some headroom to do some of the cool things I have planned for it. If all that works, next on the line will be a battery rebuild. The current battery is totally dead and this project will be a good way for me to get better with electronics repair (and save some money). I also want to upgrade the hard drive capacity from 10GB to 128GB which should be more than enough for what I want to do with it. Lastly, I want to either find a bezel for the disk reader, or 3D print one.

My end goal is to play Cyberpunk 77 with ray tracing on it. Obviously the hardware is nowhere near capable of that, so my workaround is going to be some sort of RDP software. I'm planning on trying CoRD. I doubt that the most recent build will work, so I'll be looking for older builds to try out on the internet archive. If that works as well as I'm hoping, networking will be the next goal. Inside of my network, just hooking it up to my switch will be enough. But for portability, I'm thinking of using a raspberry pi as a proxy connected through the ethernet port. If I use the pi as a tailscale node, I should be able to securely connect to my home network using public WiFi.

I'll update this page with project details as I work on it.