A mystery is concealed within this page! When hurtling into mystery, mysteries call up more mystery. What is a mystery without mystery when mystery proceeds? Hurtle on towards the ideal of solving all mystery! Open! Catherine! Take care of this website!

about me

noo.dll

my name is noo.dll, and i'm the webmaster of zona.plankton. it's a place for me to post my assorted endeavours and organize them as i please. it's also where i secretely force your to download eighty thousand different ransomwares... anyhow, check around and see if you like anything.
see ya!~ (*´ー`)旦


about the website

zona.plankton is built with astro, my static site generator of choice.

I was originally doing everything in basic HTML/CSS, though since essentially all of my pages are recursively updated, managing the code was becoming quite bothersome.
astro is very helpful in this scenario because I can setup certain page elements as independent components (like the header), use Markdown for writing (that's how the blogposts and changelog work), .json's for structuring data (which I use for the art page) etc.

I also use hotwire:turbo, which is a navigation/partial page update framework that makes the page loading work a lot like a single-page application (this helps make certain elements persistent, like the navbar/sidebar, and also what makes the music player possible).

Despite these addons, the website still works in its entirety with JavaScript disabled. I'd like to keep the website experience optimal while still presenting a nice-looking page, so there's no reason for bloat -- for all I know, you could browse here with Lynx.

The website is currently being hosted on Neocities. Every update is pushed into production using its command-line interface.

I'm planning on adding a public template to the downloads page that anyone could use as a base for their own website. See, I'm putting this here in hopes that the mere sight of me mentioning something that doesn't exist will catapult me into finishing this. After that I'll just point towards the template here.

A mystery is concealed here! An endless journey, the prey protects their soul while the hunter hunts the truth. A requiem solely sung for the search! Truth is singular. It's time to go to work, Catherine! The search culminates here!