Back in December, I learned about NeoCities and their goal of bringing back the personal, pre-WEB 3.0 / 2.0 feel of the early internet. I thought this was a great idea and immediately signed up for my free website. I then quickly did nothing with it and sat on it for six months.
About a week ago, I got the idea to host a small, online art gallery of the works that I’ve made—both with and without AI—to show them off and to make use of my free website slot. It’s been a lot of fun to write the HTML, CSS, and JS to make the site look somewhat good and be pretty functional. ChatGPT has been very instructive on what to change and how to make my vision of the site come to fruition.
The HBM Art Gallery is a digital exhibition featuring a collection of generative artwork, experimental edits, and traditional compositions. This site is also a personal project created to show off what I find interesting about the world in general and art specifically. Most of the displayed works are parts of small themed series’, but some are simply one-off projects or half-baked ideas. This gallery serves both as an archive and an evolving showcase.
Years ago now, I started a small Telegram micro-blog called Overall Enthusiasm. I basically used it as a place to share memes, random thoughts, and pictures of the projects I was working on at the time. I abandoned it a while back and spun up this website for longer content and for my Element Spotting series that I enjoy so much.
Telegram is an instant messaging application with a good amount of social media features. If you’re familiar or want to check it out, my page is located here: t.me/newsaint.
I plan to post there more-regularly than I do here, but the content won’t be nearly as collected. Thanks for reading and Element Spotting (6) is coming soon!
“I don’t really read or write too good, it’s a hassle.” – Seth Powers
My (abbreviated) name is HBM. I’m a Computer Technician by trade (but not a webdev as you may have guessed) and in my freetime I enjoy reading, writing, editing, creating, tinkering, and a few other -ings I’m sure.
About NewSaint
NewSaint is a collection of essays, lists, thoughts, and other writings created in May of 2023: part personal portfolio, part information repository. Plus it looks nice on a business card.
The name NewSaint was chosen for a few reasons:
Because it sounds cool
Because I’m a Cosmotheist and my purpose is to help bring about a higher kind of man; A New People, with New Saints
Because it was available and affordable
Interests
I thoroughly enjoy reading, especially audiobooks and whatever EPUBs I can find (or make) to stuff in my eReader. My interest books has inspired me to digitize and archive various weird, rare, or obscure books for my ever-growing digital (and partly physical) library. I use the LibreOffice suite and Sigil to create EPUBs for my library and for whoever wants them. You can read more about the many different software solutions I use on the Useful Links page.
If you’re curious about what kinds of books I spend my time reading, editing, or otherwise preserving. Check out my Recommended Reading page (article coming soon).
Beyond reading, books, and other literary adventures, I like movies, music, cooking, learning (even more) about computers, and spending time with my friends and co-workers.
One More Thing…
It’s customary, when posting things on the Internet to beg for money. I won’t beg, but if you feel inclined, I suppose you could buy me a coffee.
