Jordan Is Lame

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October 20th, 2022: Bought the JordanIsLame.com domain from Dreamhost, but looked into what altenatives to Geocities there were (it died in 2009) since I liked the creativity, personal expression, and chaos of such sites. I found Neocities.

October 21st, 2022: Took the first 3 courses of freeCodeCamp's guide to web development that focus on HTML/CSS. Not sure if I learned that much but there were like 200 steps to pass. Also started using Sadgrl's HTML/CSS template builder which is free and you can use it for NeoCities. It builds a main body and an optional sidebar and header, which I was having difficulty figuring out.

October 27th, 2022: freeCodeCamp's teaching style is pissing me off. Anyways, today I added a Nyan Cat marquee to this page, a music loop to this page, added the 48x48 socials links (Twitch, Newgrounds, etc.) to the front page sidebar, drew the bubble letter image-links for the front page, masked them with images so they're cooler looking (images inside of each letter - get me?), and updated the forums shrine. I also originally had a blank white background here before today but put a repeating starry-space gif tile. Lastly, I reverse-engineered the falling-star effect that I saw on voupie.lol, which is a site I go to for inspiration in indie web development. He has a tip jar on his front page. Check him out!

October 28th, 2022: Added the NEC PC-98 shrine, with about thirty GIFs, and the "/v/'s Recommended Games Wiki" / Wikipedia memories shrine. Set up the tables with pictures and overall a replication of those massive wiki datatables I used to read through when looking for Dreamcast games and stuff. I want to give the PC-98 page a main window square with a scrollbar, like this page, but haven't yet.

November 10th, 2022: Made a game in Twine, and then started the 90-game challenge page on here, where I challenge myself to make 90 games eventually (even if most are copycats). The idea is that learning will occur, and reverse engineering counts too. Because although copying can be bad, at some point I'll learn something. And all I mean by copying is that I may post a game that I made in a tutorial. But at some point I'll probably get embarassed and take it down anyways. So yeah, I made a page for that here.

May 7th, 2025: I had quit coding entirely between about October 2023 until like April 2025. I browse 4chan a lot, and when it went down on April 15th, 2025 or so, I started looking for alternatives, but most of them sucked. I made a Vichan imageboard and hosted it myself with Nginx. So I had kind of a 4chan clone made. It was very dead, of course. But since I learned some Linux and Nginx to do this, it made me start coding again. Over the next week or two, I learned Apache, PHP, Debian Linux, MariaDB/MySQL, and started building some sites again. I'm going to start building sites and putting them on a site called GurenCodes, which will be a challenge webpage where I'll try to develop and show off 100 projects. I'm currently dual hosting Jordanislame.com and Gurencodes.com on the same Linux server, which is a Linode VPS server, through Apache virtual hosts. Using virtual hosts is cheaper than running a bunch of servers. It's just one server that I can run a bunch of websites off of. Also, did you know that you can push updates to your Neocities website on the command line? That's part of why I'm separating these sites, is so that my PHP type stuff won't be refused when I push updates from my server version of JordanIsLame to this backup Neocities version of JordanIsLame. Anyways, if you want to keep up with what I've been doing in recent times, follow me at GurenCodes, and follow me at my YouTube channel. I'm probably not going to update this Nyan cat page very often, but I do update those other two things more frequently.

Future me says: Never mind, I'm going to start updating this site devlog again.

May 30th, 2026: On a whim, after launching Jordanislame as it's own Linux-hosted website for a year, and also making a new website concept GurenCodes, I decided I want to get into C++ development for a while. The GurenCodes website was about me learning to code mostly webpages, and I'm at 38 projects developed as of this writing, but I think I want to try C++ development for a bit. Actually, C++ is the mythical language I have always wanted to try. The reason I never really got into it is because I got swept away with Python and JavaScript, etc, by following popular language rankings. But I'm 31 while typing this, and I have been interested in C++ since I was about 14. Along with C and assembly, these three are the languages responsible for all of the games developed from 1980 until like 2005. And I am a big fan of retro games. I have played them or watched people play them pretty much every night for the past 10 years. I currently have a game idea that is kind of like Minecraft mixed with Factorio, but with some interesting themes and stuff. I think a game engine will be too limiting for it's development. Basically all complicated games that require extreme performance after 1990 have had to use C++. Anyways, I want to get into that, and I'm going to start a new series called 'Guren Learns C++'. But I first want to do wrap up my big Apache server with 5 websites being hosted on it. My Linode server was running, from one instance, 5 websites. 'Jordanislame(.)com', 'GurenCodes(.)com', 'MightNeedThis(.)com', 'IsItWW3Yet(.)com', and 'GamerPages(.)io'. It's a waste of money to host it myself when I can just GitHub archive 1 or 2 of the sites, and merge very similar copies of the other sites into the Neocities site. GurenCodes will become a sub-page of the JordanIsLame Neocities website. I'll pretty much just keep the simple pages, like the project list. The PHP pages will have to be obliterated, since Neocities doesn't allow user creators to use PHP on their Neocities sites.