hai! helo! i go by the names of blerg, martin and martinthedragon, and this is my totally very cool and awesome personal website, have a good time! (not much of that to be had yet, i know)
you may know me from the nuclear tech mod for minecraft and related projects (the remake for example)
if you happen to know me some other way instead though, well, hiii!
ever wanted a radio that features primarily one artist who consistently pushes out peak music (vylet pony)? well, look no further: https://radio.ntmr.dev
this page will feature more stuff as time goes on, so check back later! (also yes, the current page you see is more or less inspired by lyra's lol)
for your reference, this page was last updated on the
smolblog
here's a little short-form version of the blog where i can post smol random things (times are localized to your system locale)
- i often wish people could just interact with each other with kindndess, dignity and respect, just having a good time (without being obnoxious in public settings). life could be simple, we could have it all, yet so many choose to make fun of certain groups, be bigoted, or just be plain rude. a lot of people can be "weird" or "eccentric" to others, but what does it really matter, why be mean for it? why talk yourself into thinking it has to bother you, instead of improving someone's day? i see this very often on discord for example. many don't have patience with others when talking and jump straight to calling someone dumb. many others care about their ego more than anything. and many more think people have to be a certain way (or can't be a certain other way). as if any of those things really mattered to society and the world. what's much more important is that as many people as possible can live a good and happy life, and yet most people seem to actively choose to bring unhappiness to others in all kinds of ways, or to laugh at their misfortune. i have so many thoughts on this topic, and i have a full length blog post about it in progress. in the meantime, why not be the reason someone sheds tears of joy, instead of sadness?
- monarch of monsters vynils (18+) dropped for pre-order, go get one if you're a vylet pony fan!
- today i read the first book in the wings of fire series. yes, the entire book, just in one day. that thing was captivating and really well written, goddamn. it's apparently rated for middle-grade-aged children, but that's honestly very deceiving due to the sheer amount of gore and graphic descriptions. the plot is compelling too of course, there are cliffhangers at the end of every chapter, the story had me go through all sorts of emotions, and the writing involves all your senses so you can imagine the scenes really well in your head (unless you have aphantasia). go check it out!
- honestly it sickens me when i see people throw out cigarette butts into the environment, especially on the road while driving. not only are you jumpscaring the person driving behind you with the sparkly ember, you're getting all kinds of poisons into the environment (on top of all the other shit) along with microplastics that stick around, with the cigarette butt eventually making its way into the waters and oceans. and just the sheer amount of times i've witnessed people throw them out just on the road... if you're already fucking up your lungs please at least be more considerate of your surroundings </3
- if you're wondering, yeah i've hidden the in-progress blog posts for the time being, doesn't feel right to keep in-progress stuff like that. they'll reappear on the same urls though
- garlic doesn't protect against vampires, it actually acts as a bit of a blood thinner. this is all just a massive ploy to get you to consume garlic so they can actually suck you dry more easily
- yeah so about that "fuck it, we ball", that quickly turned into me trying out other editors and considering yet again where software is going, but i think things are gonna be more or less fine i guess. still means no actual work got done on the remake again, oughe
yeah i should continue writing my blog post too, that's directly related
- by celestia, going back to using intellij after so much time of using lightweight editors like kate really makes it apparent how laggy it is
- yknow, i kinda intended to get back to more ntm remake development in february, but instead i've just been doing website shit... fuck it, we ball, we're doing it now
- there's a lot of joy in developing software with sticks and stones (if you have my type of autism at least), you just learn a lot more about the tools and things you use on the regular but would otherwise have other software handle for you
- also yeah here's the thing ntm made a reference to many months ago: https://vyletpony.bandcamp.com/album/ni4ni
it was a horse reference all along
- is it just me or has youtube been decreasing the volume on videos further so they can play ads even louder? listening to music on there with everything maxed out is pretty much the same as setting the volume to 70% on a local music player, this sucks
- the dashed highlighting bar now shows up above and below new posts
- the smolblog will now highlight new posts for you that you haven't read yet (if you haven't visited the site between me adding that functionality and me writing this post, this won't show up for you yet because the javascript on this site needs to store a timestamp of your current visit in your browser's local storage first)
- if you've ever wondered what an ntm developer looks like, unironically imagine someone in a white shirt wearing a striped high-waisted pleated mini skirt together with pastel pink striped thigh highs, and there you go
- contemplated turning this into more of a system "like twitter" (without the stupid clout metrics) by allowing people to subscribe to automated push notifications somehow, but i think an rss feed would also be enough. it's not like i need to shove my writings into people's faces. in fact, i'd rather have the opposite so i can just write whatever shit i feel like. i wonder about adding ways to reply though. well, people can already just email me about anything, but i understand the laziness and maybe lack of anonymity (btw i don't care how "cringe" your email address may be (unless it contains slurs or 4chan-slang, then i will be concerned), and i'm not gonna do anything evil with it either, pinky promise)
- i just realized with this smolblog i basically just recreated twitter, in a way... well, without all the parts that make twitter a hellscape, but i guess that does mean there's at least some appeal to talking into a small box after all
- i love a good sleep, but i often wish days were twice as long and that the brain could handle it like that
- seeing people debate over what browser is better or worse is tiring... it's software (some of the most sophisticated software we have, nonetheless), and most software just sucks for various reasons, so look, if it works, it works, otherwise send a bug report, fix it or live with something else and let others be oughe (if you're using a browser fork developed by a small team, be sure that you're receiving updates and security patches from upstream, as well as that the fork itself is safe; generally, i recommend against using browser forks; use firefox, chromium or safari if you want the least amount of spyware and the best support i guess)
- decided to write down the recipe for the slime that heals you, check it out
- mh i love taking frozen vegetables and turning them into the slime that heals you, this stuff just slaps
- i really wonder how many people come across this site, i should set up a guestbook for people to leave funny notes
- we must destroy the torment nexus
- i'm starting to worry i might've gotten addicted to webdev as a stress relief mechanism in the face of all the other large things i actually want to do
- yay the smolblog templating is working
- man i should really set up a local caddy instance to debug this site better
- sometimes i try to be nice or silly to a friend and then think to myself "damn i must be fucking annoying", so i just get sad
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contact
if you'd like to talk to the derg, you can do that using the following methods:
- email: martin [silly 'a' in a circle] ntmr.dev (i have a pgp key if you want encryption; check out thunderbird if you need an email client that supports it)
- discord: @martinthedragon
- matrix: @martinthedragon:ntmr.dev
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