Hi, I go by derpygamer2142 online and this is a website for me and my stuff.
For information about my projects, you can check the projects page;
Contact information for me is available on the contact page;
And finally, the blog page may have some posts on it, notably one about the backend of this site.
I'm a student who is interested in computer science and likes to build things. I'm particularly interested in 3D graphics, and am hoping to become a graphics programmer(eventually). I also do some stuff with electronics, such as my Buckshot Roulette project, though hardware isn't really my strong suit.
I love C because of the control I get over it, but also use a lot of javascript for projects where I care more about iteration than functionality.
I also like weird things, as shown by this site, the design of which was influenced by the charm of motherfuckingwebsite.com.
I host stuff for free on my homelab, a Dell R630 running Proxmox, and I have 5 users with dedicated VMs and around 5 users whose programs I host on my personal VM. I host this because I want to lower the barrier for entry for making cool things, because someone with an amazing idea for a game might not be able to see it come to life because they can't host a multiplayer server, or a variety of other reasons. I've been doing this since 2024 and have maintained a pretty good amount of uptime, with only occasional spurts for important maintenance(and one occasion where a hard drive failed and the cpu overheated!)
The web server for this website has its own blog post which I have linked several times already. I'm not going to link it again just because you're lazy.
derpygamer2142.com was originally written in Svelte, and the old source code is available here. Around the time I wrote my own web server I decided that my website was a bit too flashy, and I received feedback that it was "completely unprofessional", and that led me to this.
It's simple, it's clear, I don't need to try and flex any non-existent design skills, and I don't need to jump through any hoops whenever I update it.
This site is HTML 2.0 and CSS 1.0 compliant(to my knowledge), which is actually pretty robust so it isn't saying much. Below is an image of the site in Internet Explorer 6:
