Lego Muni Instructions are now available!

[2025-05-17]

I finished making the instructions for the Lego Muni-- and they're now available on Rebrickable! Rebrickable makes it easy to assemble and order the pieces, and best of all, I'm offering the instructions for free 🙂.

I'm hoping you'll build it motorized (because I spent a long time making the electronics fit 😅), but the motor is optional. It's sturdy enough for kids to play with it, but the building experience is geared towards teenagers and adults. You can even build multiple Muni cars and chain them together!

And if you do build it, I'd love to see your version! Feel free to DM me on Instagram with pictures or feedback.

Happy building!

[2025-05-13]

I've completed the instructions for the V3! Check out the Lego page for new information. They should be available on Rebrickable soon if approved. I've also updated the page with a more detailed history and a GIF version of a post I shared on Instagram. (I should probably create a home page link to my insta...)

Behind the scenes, I've also converted the rest of my site to use the Jinja2 templates, so a bunch of minor inconsistencies should be resolved. Shoutout to realfavicongenerator.net for being easy to use!

[2025-04-30]

I've been working on the site some more, and now I've created some automations to help make creating new posts easier!

It ended up being fairly painless, and I'm pleased that I was able to leverage my Python knowledge!

I got motivated to add RSS support after Alana Pearce, the main host my favorite podcast Play, Watch, Listen, said she fixed their Patreon's RSS feed, which made me think, people still use those? And like, they sound helpful! So I've added one. You can find it at feed.txt! (Neocities also has a guide on adding RSS to your site!) And in order make RSS, it helps to have the posts be generated instead of manually editing all the files 🙃.

I started off using Jinja2, then contemplated using a static site generator. Then I was like, "are there Python static site generators?" And there are! I found Pelican, and then realized, this basically does what I already was doing plus some markdown parsing. And then I thought, they're probably using someone else's library to parse the markdown. And sure enough, they are! So I grabbed the markdown library. Then I was like, how are they turning this text into nicely grouped items with metadata for RSS? So I read the docs and it turns out you can do this with the metadata extension to add some data at the beginning of each markdown file.

So I've turned all my old posts into markdown (there's only a few lol) and changed the pages that reference them to be Jinja templates! So that should all be live now. This also sets the groundwork for creating a template for the other pages! Up until now I've been editing them all by hand.

One roadblock I ran into was that I wanted to copy-paste the html into the new md files, but it was html escaping a lot of it. I fixed it by adding |safe to my templates and surrounding the html with a <div> after reading that by default it ignored top-level html elements in the docs.

I also switched from using WebStorm to PyCharm for this project for the Jinja2 support 😋. But now unfortunately I need a better process for previewing my files, images are broken in the generated files. It's hard to get the tooling to work 😭.

Also note, we are now live on cindercube.net! ( previously, cindercube.neocities.org)

My best wishes to any who are reading!

[2025-04-01]

I've been obsessed with working on a LEGO Muni Metro Model for the past few months. I've created a public Insta to show off my work: @cindercube

I've also updated the lego section of the site with some details on the different versions

[2024-08-20]

Submitted Trashterpiece for the 2024 GMTK Game Jam!

Be sure to check it out on itch.io!

Proud to have completed it with mint, tofu, and kukara. I feel like we really knocked it out of the park!

[2024-07-28]

• I made a piano arrangement of "Watcher" from 1000xRESIST! Check it out on my MuseScore page!
• I updated my itch.io with my old games from game jams and school

[2024-06-21]

• Added links for gaming and music
• Replaced icons with lower resolution versions for faster loading times

[2024-06-20]

Added a bunch of things, still working on more

• Added a bunch of resources to the code page that hopefully people find helpful
• Added links to various stuff I've made, like Github and Soundcloud
• Added an archive of a random tumblr page I found in my gDrive
• I've started to make more sensible layouts

Still working on filling out other pages.

I've been really enjoying making all the logos for the different pages. I think I've developed a look for the logos where there's two vanishing points, one to the top left and one to the top right, but the right one is further away. There's a light source to the left. The theme is represented by a single 3D object on a textured background. A dark area under the object suggests a shadow. Colors of the object are preferably non-representative. The color of the foreground and the background should contrast. The brightness should run the whole gamut, from white to black. Also, the background should contrast with black and the page's background color. The code logo should be redone but it's good enough for now.

Did not mean for the Drawing background to look like the Life is Strange cover but honestly it's kinda sick that it does

Hello, world!

[2024-06-18]

Just starting this whole neocities thing.

Here are my goals for this website:

• Eat a lot of cereal
• Show off cool stuff I've done
• Show off cool stuff other people have done
• Eat a lot of veggies
• Design my own site from scratch

I'm mostly thinking

• Games
• Music
• Code
• Drawing
• Lego

plus whatever new interests I acquire along the way! Maybe I'll do some stuff on the trains in San Francisco while I'm at it.

My site is cooler than yours ;P

Don't take me too seriously