New feature - Featured Regions of the World

Yet another subsite before finishing half empty pages that are already here: Featured Regions of the World is basically a small list of mostly cities, but also islands, national parks, large infrastructure complexes, regions or in some cases entire countries with links to Wikipedia or some other relevant websites about it. That will be my place to put whatever place I was searching at any moment so you may also get to know something new with me :)

Adding some visual bollocks, new article awaits to be finished

Page about Zamość and SimCity got new background colors and can change according to the theme (it works, but it's still dumb). Other pages also got some small incremental changes in appearance, including the main page that got a handful of new buttons.

New article about a site of the future mega airport in Poland have some photos, but no descriptions, I'll write something soon.

I also got some new followers Tofutush thank you! And I found some cool sites, including Me and My Passions website with maps of another fictional country!

Lots of small improvements and a new map of Lubelskie

I added new map for my Zamość shrine, as well as a new experimental background and generally made some small changes almost everywhere, now it's getting more tide up. Other shrines will get some treatment soon, if I keep this tempo.

Cleaning up the code bit and Uzbekistan

'World Review' and 'Shrines' index pages are finally upgraded to match the new default website theme. The old clunky blue/purple navbar is gone (unless I forgot about some lone page) and from now on the navigation between pages is much more consistent. Great news, all of us were waiting for it lol.

My unfinished Uzbekistan was added. If I ever made 'Atlas of My Opinions' page functional I'll be more motivated to write those country opinions way faster. It got some work, but it's still a total mess. The left sidebar was added (not for mobile tho).

City Guesser Game tips - finally something new after 3 months

Long time no see, for about 3 months I haven't made any progress here on my website, busy summer prevented me from engaging more checking out other sites once in a while and tiny lines of code updates. I had so many ideas, one of which is not relevant anymore because of my delayed response, but I completely postponed them and I always wish to reactivate them someday...

In the meantime I moved all the articles from the obsolete version of my 'Articles' single page to new separate pages. I don't know if it's more convenient, but it's way easier for me to maintain.

I finally added a couple of actual photos of a new Museum of Modern Arts in Warsaw, check out this monstrosity here :D.

Aside all my whining, thanks to unexpected new followers and nice comments from the Neocities community I decided to write something completely new and here it is: City Guesser Game tips! I'll try my best to finish this article so it will consist some actual interesting trivias, but for now, it's just a quick draft with some screenshots.

Thank you new followers: An Outsider, Kady Jerry, Kuroi and new visitors!

Chaotic revamp, new article about VSCode

Most of the major subpages are getting upgraded with the new navbar, which works quite nice, but since I can't really use version control and my changes are made manually both in VSCode and in-browser Neocities editor, I'm struggling to plan anything. Still, I'm getting closer and closer to remade the remaining old and unfunctional subpages, the worst offenders are Articles and World Review.

In the meantime I made a quick article about autocompletion feature in VSCode that gave me a bunch of silly hints, here's the link!

More changes are getting deployed

More and more pages are getting new scripts and navbars so this place for a while will look like a transition period of old and new. Oh and don't use Settings, some of the options are an absolute eyesore :D

When it comes to actual new content, well, I made some real world maps with real world data and I'm preparing a whole brand new post about stuff that's very relevant in todays Europe, stay tuned!

Major technical overhaul

Expect some empty links, unloaded pictures, inconsistencies and other broken features, I don't have new content right now, just an overhaul of code. First I'll add features that I always wanted to have and then after start to actually write stuff that I want. Eventually :)

Interactive map of some fictional mall + new quiz on Jetpunk

I've made some tiny urban planning on OpenGeoFiction and drew some small fictional strip mall with parking lot and what not. The in-browser editor is kinda fun to play around!

I added some tiny drawings a month ago at Not Just Map, but that's so insignificant that I forgot to mention it earlier here. I wish I could make some bigger stuff eh

Oh, and I made a new quiz on Jetpunk - can you name all tram systems in Poland, including defunct!? sadly without a nice map, maybe I'll add it in free time.

Tiny updates, first in this spring

I removed the background with the snowflakes, it's way to warm now! No replacement sadly, but I need to figure out how to overhaul the entire website anyway, but the time is short. I've added one opinion about the country that I expected: Romania, and the second one that I included thanks to the unexpected conversation in the queue: Zimbabwe!

Everything is just a stub here, but I'm so keen on revamping this whole thing eh

New article and fun gimmick - untapped nostalgia and my first tiny mobile website

It took me 3 days to finally write some good wall of text, that I was thinking for a long time: Why are you not mobile-friendly - untapped nostalgia of mobile websites. I'm especially fond of this tiny website that I embedded into the image of a model of my old Sony Ericsson phone, the code is very primitive, but works!

Some more stuff is coming, but I got a bit too much ideas and not that fast brain to execute them in words, stay tuned :)

Many stuff are started, almost nothing is completed

A few days age I made a somewhat decent template of window for my opinions about countries that are on the partially partially published My Opinions page. I spent too much time on this tiny feature that shows and hides opinions about flags which is quite nice, but needs a bit more styling, it works, I like it, but the button looks too default. I badly want to finish all those hot takes on countries like Mauritania, Nauru and, the next in queue Romania, chosen thanks to the awesome entry in my guestbook from Dim14! Thanks, lubesc Romania! I know a lot of stuff about Romania so it'll be a longer and will take a while to write it down.

All in all, I only had time to write just a bunch of starter texts that I wish to complete in some reasonable time, if I find any.

Brand new fictional hand drawn map dropped

After many years of 'artistic hiatus' I finally sketched some fully hand drawn fictional map that is now proudly diplayed on a new page for New Maps from 2025! It's definitely not the prettiest image on this site and the physical drawing was badly damaged by my little daughter, but still, it's nice to upload something brand new.

Much more stuff is in preparation, some pages are technically available, it just have to be proprley finished and due to my total incompetence in JavaScript I can't install a nice way to link them all. I got to push it eventually!

Petra's Indie Web Contest is on and I wish all participants good luck (saw a couple of your sites and you guys are truly amazing) and all if your site is not on the contest, check them out and vote!

Tidying up before I go

During the weekend I'm still able to add some words and markups here and there, but the next week is going to be intense so the Lankarta website progress is sluggish. I revamped Links a bit, wrote some words, wrote some words about my idea for an idea how to write words, added disclaimer that there is no strobing pictures except some external buttons and generally that's it. I wish to upgrade the site enough to be worthy of participating in Petra's Indie Web Contest!, but I can't complete my pages to be satisfied with the results, ehh it is what it is.

New (unpolished) article and crippling (untreatable) laziness

The new article dropped, it's about AI (ugh not again, but I need to collect my thoughts about the topic) with The Enchanted Pencil as the example, but the conclusion is a bit unclear, a paragraph or two is needed so the article will make sense. I also created some blank htmls and templates for my new major subpage World Review that will have at least 5 new maps and about a metric ton of country reviews, if I ever manage to write'em all. My first entry is Luxembourg (written on a horribly formatted table), so if you live there and especially if you speak Luxembourgish, make your country visible on my guestbook! :D

Apart from that, I finally added the google font meta link so the font is visible as I intended to months ago and I standardized the footer on all pages (still copy/pasted manually, like an amateur). I have a lot of stuff going on so I can't just focus and make a proper new page which is super frustrating. I gotta keep working.

Tiny reminder that I did nothing really

Some javascript snippets, some css gradient on the footer, uploaded vanilla static ultra package to neocities, still can't figure out how to fix the loading theme thing, some new buttons, some fixes here and there, so in other words: why do I bother writing this, better come back with something interesting lol.

Bus and maps

Some more leftover drawings including a bus, a unsuccessful attempt to draw bird's eye view of a battle in XIX century, two tiny maps and tiny vehicle doodle pack. Some tiny text snippets here and there but nothing substantial, as usual.

My first translated article!

I didn't mentioned it previously, but a week ago I translated into Polish a short article about the continents on Þe Satyrs’ Foreſt’t Satyrwoud website! I did it just for fun to excercise my language skills like choosing words that fit the context, it's fun sometimes to dust off school skills. I guess it's my first ever translation that is published on someones blog, I translated some stuff for other people before, but usually it was for educational/college purposes. If you know language other than English and want to contribute, check it out!

I added my ancient drawing of some red bridge and silly city skyline, I gave up wrapping those images into fancy sliders, at least for now... 🖥️

Other than that, apart from writing some texts offline, I did nothing on the internet lately, just busy times.

Business as usual

It seems the 2025 will be yet another year of just work and cleaning up the mess from the previous year, yay ugh.

I changed the background, the very low effort snowflakes pattern looks the best on desktop. I've made some ugly map of Europe with links inside it to test how SVGs basic features work here as the map will be the basis of World Review page. I also wrote some new paragraphs here and there, but really nothing is getting uploaded, I do stuff off-line most of the time.

I love the fact that this new webring widget finally works and shows the flag, thank you beau!

I will eventually add a separate window with update logs that are just one liners, writing those elaborate articles is fun and informative for me, but no one cares that much lol

I'm trying to fully understand the code of features like image comparison slider and I downloaded Static Ultra by Scott2 kit to test out whether I am able to use it as the baseline to this entire Lankarta website. It seems promising, but I can't focus on programming at all and the fact that the index.html didn't load the default theme the first time I launched it with VSCode live server, distracts me even more. Literally everywhere I am there is so much work to be done. Maybe at least this little place on the Internet will be finished enough to the 1st February, the date is completely unspecific 📅

The New Year

Not that many thing have been done during the holidays, except maybe a new (very old actually) idea about my old Windows 95 computer with some useless images made with classic MS Paint. Nothing note worthy. I also made some offline bullet points and drafts with what I want to do, so I got just plans for the 2025 and nothing else.

One of my biggest plan regarding this website is to move and expand stuff from the Shrines about my hometown Zamość, as well as the writings about my trips or opinions about countries to the entirely new page, initially named World Review, divided into subpages: Homeland - all stuff about Poland, Visited - about places that I've been personally, Wishlist - fully upgraded section 'World Tour' that is currently just a bunch of flags in About&Guestbook site and Opinions - ramblings about places that I know only from the third person experiences, the Internet and some other medias.

All the other shrines unrelated to the travelling and geography will stay in shrines and finally, eventually, probably be completed. I don't like all those 'under construction' announcments, but I write them to motivate myself to do the actuall stuff to not write them in the future, _{if that make sense}.

Frankly the 2024 drained me from all the energy so I don't know how long it will take to make the 2025 more fruitful, but I hope you all will have a much better new year!