hello world

Hi!

I. A WORLD OF DREAMERS

In case you don't know me already, I'm Neven, though in most corners of the internet I go by the pseudonym hex4. I'm a middle school hacker, maker, tinkerer, and designer dreaming of a funner world. You can find some more lore/expositiony stuff/yapping on my website, hex4.xyz , but my general gist is that the internet (and, to some extent, the whole world) is kinda boring these days, and I'm trying to bring back a time where people just made cool, useless, dumb, fun stuff because they could, not motivated by useless internet points. One where the focus was on people, not algorithms or the next B2B AI SaaS.

When I'm not hacking away on projects or writing weird philosophical stuff about dreamers and the internet, I'm snowboarding, climbing, gaming, playing D&D, and a bunch of other hobbies, most of which I've forgotten about.

II. THE BLOG

I post fairly often on Bluesky , which is great for fleeting thoughts, pictures of my cats, and little announcements, and is leaps and bounds better than whatever's going on with Twitter slash X. (spoiler: it's AI techbros, AI slop, AI techbro drama, AI slop drama, and a teensy bit of good content - mainly cool UI design... for AI apps)

However, I often find myself wanting to write longer posts than 256 characters. I do have this strange habit where whenever I sit down to write a short lil message it turns into an essay, so that probably plays a part, but I digress - lots of times I have a story, devlog, tutorial, etc that won't fit into a bsky post.

So I made this blog with Leaflet, based on the same tech behind Bluesky, ATProto :) It's a very nice piece of software with a lot of thoughtful touches, and I'm enjoying it very much as I write this!

III. WHAT TO EXPECT

I'll mostly be posting longer-form thoughts and ideas, including stuff around Reverie and a-world-for-the-dreamers, my journey improving my coding skills, devlogs for the games I make, tutorials, and other things I think about like Tactile Design and project ideas.

I'm purposefully keeping the blog's description open-ended - I just want this to be a place where I can transcribe my never-ending series of musings into long-form posts I can share with the world. I might even write some short stories for here 👀

Wow, that ended up being a lot longer than I thought it would be lol. Anyways, stay tuned! Exciting stuff coming soon :D

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