The world looks so different now. The world looks so different now. The world looks so different now.
-One of my favourite music artists, [Jaron](https://youtu.be/GXvqQ5-P82I), released his album LIGHTYEARS a little over a year ago. For his visuals, he uses a variety of symbols in place of Latin letters, and there's a converter on [his website](https://jaronsteele.com/) too. Only problem is that my browser can't seem to display most of the characters because the characters aren't included in most fonts. That's why I made a font! It allows you to type Latin characters from `A-Z` as well as numbers `0-9` and `!?` in the LIGHTYEARS style. Like this: +## Background + +One of my favourite music artists, [Jaron](https://youtu.be/GXvqQ5-P82I), released his album LIGHTYEARS a little over a year ago. For his visuals, he uses a variety of symbols in place of Latin letters, and there's a converter on [his website](https://jaronsteele.com/) too. Only problem is that my browser can't seem to display most of the characters because the characters aren't included in most fonts. + +That's why I made a font! It allows you to type Latin characters from `A-Z` as well as numbers `0-9` and `!?` in the LIGHTYEARS style. Like this:trans rights!
-[Download the font here](https://files.natconf.dev/public/lightyears.woff2). It's in the web-optimised `woff2` format and has most characters stripped to minimise its file size – it's less than 20 kilobytes in size! Uppercase and lowercase letters are the same. People can 'decrypt' text by copy-pasting it somewhere else! \ No newline at end of file +The font exclusively uses characters from the Noto font family. Many of the Noto varieties have been stitched together to recreate the whole LIGHTYEARS alphabet. + +To create the font, I used [FontForge](https://fontforge.org). Finding this tool was both a blessing and a curse, as it was exactly what I needed, but it kept. crashing. all. the. time. I tried both the AppImage as well as the release on `dnf` and both had the same issues. I managed to make it work, but it took a lot of patience. Eventually I figured out that importing Noto Maths gave me a 3-8 second window before the editor crashed. The project file would forget the imported font, but if I had copied any glyphs it would keep those. + +## Usage + +The font is in the web-optimised `woff2` format and has most characters stripped to minimise its file size – it's less than 20 kilobytes in size! Uppercase and lowercase letters are the same. + +For use on your website, put the font into your resources/static/similar folder and then add this block of code to your CSS file: + +
+@font-face {
+ font-family: "LIGHTYEARS";
+ src: url("/fonts/lightyears.woff2");
+ font-weight: 400;
+ font-style: normal;
+}
+
+
+Then you can change any element's font by setting `font-family: 'LIGHTYEARS', sans-serif;`. Because it's the Latin characters and Arabic numbers that have been changed, you can type text in regular English and people can 'decrypt' the messages by copy-pasting the text somewhere else!
+
+You do **not** need Jaron's converter to type stylised text! The converter returns the actual symbols from other scripts, whereas this font only changes how letters look.
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diff --git a/src/routes/projects/music/anewbeginning.md b/src/routes/projects/music/anewbeginning.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2ce1504
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/routes/projects/music/anewbeginning.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+**A New Beginning** is an EP I wrote back in 2018 in an effort to change up my production style. Originally, this EP was released as *A New Beginning (3-Track)*, featuring A New Beginning as *Nowy Początek* and *Farewell* in two different versions, one being an instrumental titled *Trzymajcie Się*, and the other one being a bootleg of Kelly Clarkson's *Behind These Hazel Eyes* called *Behind These Hazel Eyes (D4rkn355 'Farewell' Bootleg)*! For copyright reasons, the bootleg never made it onto streaming services.
+
+This EP, to me, represents the start of a deviation in tone, production quality, and musical style from my previous works. While it was only a start, I am quite proud of the works I produced.
+
+The EP is available for download on [my copyparty instance](https://files.natconf.dev/public/my_tracks/A%20New%20Beginning/).
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diff --git a/src/routes/projects/music/dreamworld.md b/src/routes/projects/music/dreamworld.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d64b111
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/routes/projects/music/dreamworld.md
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+**Dreamworld** is my first album. I always wanted to write a cohesive piece of media, and **Dreamworld** was my first stab at this task. Originally, I had planned to write an album in the month of July 2020, but that fell flat entirely, instead starting out with the production of *Monophobia* – a track name inspired by deadmau5' track of the same title – and working on the album until September of the year thereafter.
+
+I had started the track *Dreamworld* back in 2019, only adapting it to the project as I thought it would fit thematically. Coincidentally, *Flawed Romance* shares the same chord progression, which genuinely only happened because I accidentally wrote the same progression twice.
+
+The cover for **Dreamworld** is an edited picture of the Wallanlagen in Bremen, featuring a tree that fell and broke a year later. As such, this scene does not exist in quite the same way it did back then anymore.
+
+I own a vinyl record of this album, produced as a one-off by [beevinyl](https://beevinyl.com/).
+
+The album is available for download on [my copyparty instance](https://files.natconf.dev/public/my_tracks/Dreamworld/).
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diff --git a/src/routes/projects/music/soundcloud.md b/src/routes/projects/music/soundcloud.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..53ec7c6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/routes/projects/music/soundcloud.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+These two accounts house demos, work-in-progress versions, and old music tracks I wrote.
+
+I used to experiment a lot! You'll find electronic house, progressive house, hardstyle, melodic stuff, dubstep, joke songs, and even a few remixes. Most of it is terrible, but I like looking back at it.
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diff --git a/src/routes/projects/projects2.ts b/src/routes/projects/projects2.ts
index 7f1412f..9ef83f4 100644
--- a/src/routes/projects/projects2.ts
+++ b/src/routes/projects/projects2.ts
@@ -9,8 +9,14 @@ export interface Project {
isOngoing: boolean; // whether the project is currently active (true) or a past project (false)
date: string;
status: ProjectStatus;
+ links: Link[]; // may pass an empty array
};
+export interface Link {
+ text: string;
+ link: string;
+}
+
export enum ProjectCategory {
DRAWINGS = "drawings",
GAMES = "games",
@@ -59,6 +65,12 @@ export const projects: Project[] = [
isOngoing: false,
date: "March 2026",
status: ProjectStatus.FINISHED,
+ links: [
+ {
+ text: "Download the font",
+ link: "https://files.natconf.dev/public/lightyears.woff2",
+ }
+ ],
},
{
category: ProjectCategory.DRAWINGS,
@@ -71,6 +83,8 @@ export const projects: Project[] = [
isOngoing: false,
date: "February – March 2026",
status: ProjectStatus.FINISHED,
+ links: [
+ ],
},
{
category: ProjectCategory.ELECTRONICS,
@@ -83,6 +97,8 @@ export const projects: Project[] = [
isOngoing: false,
date: "October 2024",
status: ProjectStatus.FINISHED,
+ links: [
+ ],
},
{
category: ProjectCategory.ELECTRONICS,
@@ -95,6 +111,8 @@ export const projects: Project[] = [
isOngoing: false,
date: "August 2024",
status: ProjectStatus.FINISHED,
+ links: [
+ ],
},
@@ -111,6 +129,20 @@ export const projects: Project[] = [
isOngoing: true,
date: "September 2023 – now",
status: ProjectStatus.ACTIVE,
+ links: [
+ {
+ text: "View the development log",
+ link: "/projects/projectn5",
+ },
+ {
+ text: "Play an old web build (developed until 2025-05-16)",
+ link: "https://apps.natconf.dev/projectn5",
+ },
+ {
+ text: "Download the old Windows builds",
+ link: "https://files.natconf.dev/public/projectn5",
+ },
+ ],
},
{
category: ProjectCategory.GAMES,
@@ -123,6 +155,12 @@ export const projects: Project[] = [
isOngoing: false,
date: "July 2025",
status: ProjectStatus.ABANDONED,
+ links: [
+ {
+ text: "View the latest Magician build",
+ link: "https://apps.natconf.dev/magician",
+ },
+ ],
},
{
category: ProjectCategory.GAMES,
@@ -135,6 +173,8 @@ export const projects: Project[] = [
isOngoing: false,
date: "August 2024 – May 2025",
status: ProjectStatus.ABANDONED,
+ links: [
+ ],
},
{
category: ProjectCategory.GAMES,
@@ -147,6 +187,12 @@ export const projects: Project[] = [
isOngoing: false,
date: "August 2023",
status: ProjectStatus.ABANDONED,
+ links: [
+ {
+ text: "Play Swords & Stuff",
+ link: "https://apps.natconf.dev/swordsnstuff",
+ },
+ ],
},
{
category: ProjectCategory.GAMES,
@@ -159,6 +205,16 @@ export const projects: Project[] = [
isOngoing: false,
date: "August 2023",
status: ProjectStatus.FINISHED,
+ links: [
+ {
+ text: "Play TADS 1",
+ link: "https://apps.natconf.dev/tads/1",
+ },
+ {
+ text: "Play TADS 2",
+ link: "https://apps.natconf.dev/tads/2",
+ },
+ ],
},
@@ -175,6 +231,16 @@ export const projects: Project[] = [
isOngoing: false,
date: "July – September 2024",
status: ProjectStatus.FINISHED,
+ links: [
+ {
+ text: "Get the PCB and STL files",
+ link: "https://files.natconf.dev/public/daisyfm/",
+ },
+ {
+ text: "View the code files on Codeberg",
+ link: "https://codeberg.org/denizk0461/daisy-fm-synth",
+ },
+ ],
},
@@ -191,6 +257,16 @@ export const projects: Project[] = [
isOngoing: false,
date: "April 2023 – January 2024",
status: ProjectStatus.EOL,
+ links: [
+ {
+ text: "View on Codeberg",
+ link: "https://codeberg.org/denizk0461/weserplaner/",
+ },
+ {
+ text: "Link to the Google Play store page (outdated)",
+ link: "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.denizk0461.weserplaner",
+ },
+ ],
},
{
category: ProjectCategory.APPS,
@@ -203,6 +279,16 @@ export const projects: Project[] = [
isOngoing: false,
date: "May – November 2023",
status: ProjectStatus.EOL,
+ links: [
+ {
+ text: "View on Codeberg",
+ link: "https://codeberg.org/denizk0461/text-basic/",
+ },
+ {
+ text: "Link to the Google Play store page (outdated)",
+ link: "https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.denizk0461.textbasic",
+ },
+ ],
},
{
category: ProjectCategory.APPS,
@@ -215,6 +301,12 @@ export const projects: Project[] = [
isOngoing: false,
date: "June 2019 – March 2020",
status: ProjectStatus.EOL,
+ links: [
+ {
+ text: "View the Android app source code on GitHub",
+ link: "https://github.com/denizk0461/qwark",
+ },
+ ],
},
{
category: ProjectCategory.APPS,
@@ -227,6 +319,16 @@ export const projects: Project[] = [
isOngoing: false,
date: "April 2019 – March 2020",
status: ProjectStatus.EOL,
+ links: [
+ {
+ text: "View the Android app source code on GitHub",
+ link: "https://github.com/denizk0461/avh-substitution-plan",
+ },
+ {
+ text: "View the iOS app source code on GitHub",
+ link: "https://github.com/denizk0461/avh-plan-ios",
+ },
+ ],
},
@@ -244,6 +346,12 @@ export const projects: Project[] = [
isOngoing: false,
date: "July 2019 – September 2021",
status: ProjectStatus.FINISHED,
+ links: [
+ {
+ text: "Listen & download on my copyparty instance",
+ link: "https://files.natconf.dev/public/my_tracks/Dreamworld/",
+ },
+ ],
},
{
category: ProjectCategory.MUSIC,
@@ -256,6 +364,12 @@ export const projects: Project[] = [
isOngoing: false,
date: "May – August 2018",
status: ProjectStatus.FINISHED,
+ links: [
+ {
+ text: "Listen & download on my copyparty instance",
+ link: "https://files.natconf.dev/public/my_tracks/A%20New%20Beginning/",
+ },
+ ],
},
{
category: ProjectCategory.MUSIC,
@@ -268,5 +382,15 @@ export const projects: Project[] = [
isOngoing: false,
date: "",
status: ProjectStatus.INACTIVE,
+ links: [
+ {
+ text: "Listen to the demo dump on Soundcloud",
+ link: "https://soundcloud.com/denizk0461",
+ },
+ {
+ text: "Listen to the archive on Soundcloud",
+ link: "https://soundcloud.com/djd4rkn355",
+ },
+ ],
},
];
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