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TLDR update your RSS Feed of this site! This neocities site will be read only as of May 2026

I moved my blog to my subdomain blog.werder.fyi after wondering for a year if I should. Moving houses and websites is similar. You go around shopping for a new home that has everything: subdomains, free hosting, easy to set up etc.

When I started blogging in 2023 (December but it was still that year) I knew about Zonelets Home which is still a great toolkit to understand The Web but writing html, css and javascript AND writing the RSS per Hand is doable but is kinda a whole rolling eyes thing for me at this point. Zonelets helped me immensely to feel comfortable using other web dev stuff and having the feeling of owning my handful of files (posts, javascript main file, css styling etc.). And if anyone would like to dip their toe into the world of blogging and WANTS to "UNPROFESSIONAL-looking website by writing NUMEROUS lines of code" then you should use Zonelets. Its great!

But there is also a little Legacy to this. I switched over to Adamas ZoneRss which works a bit easier but after some debugging time was still not the most fitting toolset for my workflow. I had to copy some html into the Tools Adam build like here. See I love mardown. I like that its a bit like Plain text but is way nicer to look at and with tools like Obisidan.md or Taio for IOS it is a breeze to get my thoughts down. But the web likes plain text and html so I always just slapped it into a converter and hopped for the best.

2025 I heard about Static Site Generators (11ty) and I thought huh thats nice but there is no chance I will rebuild everything I made in zonelets/zonerss but then @renko made this wonderful tutorial Midnight Reading: 🖥️ Migrating to Eleventy and I used it to feel impowered but not continue anything beyond that. Because where should this wonderful written site live? On Neocities which did a lot for the indieweb community but since I don't write that often (and maybe not a lot of people are reading this) the 5€ per month was a bit too much. Since building my site in Zonelets and now in 11ty I knew I would own my site and just needed a web host. The 5€ Business here in the EU webhosts were to expensive for me as well but the feature for having my blog on a subdomain I own blog.werder.fyi was a non negotiable thing.

I then saw the strawberry starter and even though it has some features I dont need it ticked a lot of boxes for me Welcome to Strawberry Starter!

• already set up the busy work
• awesome people behind it
• being a SSG
• seeming simple to set up

So I used a weekend to port over some features and aesthetics I liked (the fonts, the colors, the [Link Pages]](https://blog.werder.fyi/infolinks/indieweb/) ). Not everything was painless and not everything is exactly how I like it right now. But the summer is starting here and I dont want to sit in fron of my computer for the next week replicating my own blog ;) .

Right now my workflow looks like this with the new Straweberry Starter Set (which uses 11ty under the hood):

1. writing my posts in its own Obsidian Folder which get the folders of the posts monted as to create any files in the "clean" website source folder
2. Using a .bat script to test, build and deploy my website
3. the website is currently deployed to cloudfare as that thing is so massive that having websites with custom sub domains on there to be free (as of May 2026)
4. So I write, open a script that runs stuff in the terminal for me so I dont have to retype something and then it gets uploaded

I really like it!

Anyways now there is my new blog which I will continue on writing. Because I hate Link rot my Neocities - Proud Morning site will be up until they close down (that's my plan as of now).

Thanks for reading this and hopefully we see each other again (on the new site)

Bye! Again here is the blog blog.werder.fyi

Hey everyone! This blog will live on don't worry, but there will be huge changes to my website and myself on the World Wide Web.

If you got a 88x31 button of me on your website. First of thank you! and second please change the link from my all encompassing website to this blog! Thx. Okay lets get on with the blog post of why this is all happening.

When I started to post stuff 2012ish I just used my very short name for everything, maybe with some initials or the start of my family name. As my name is only three letters in length, there were was no need for any username, even in arcade games ;) . And this is something I kept on for my "entire" life, because

1. I like my name
2. my name is short
3. there was only one other (queer) human using it online
4. I always had names for projects but I define myself with the name I got in a strong way
5. A lot of other people I like/admire use their legal names online
6. ~~ I had nothing to hide ~~
7. I only live once and all the stuff I do / make contribute to my self
8. I found it boring when you say SuperDuperArtist aka LegalName all the time
9. Mostly people in my real life didnt care what I did online or would ask what the fuck I was posting to twitter

ähm yeah, mostly it was continent and I felt mostly safe with expressing online. But over the last couple of years I knew that this was also limiting for me. I did not want to have a brand or a persona that was a specific thing. I want to be fluid in expressing what I am enyoing about making art without any regard of what I did before. To be bland I felt stuck and I wanted to blame the 0€ making personal brand of my legal name online for it. I was and still am a human that wants to create but I became more and more a human that should/must do specific things to be worth of my past.

This post is as all my post mostly me rambling on and on about me and my problems for everyone to read. And I do enjoy posting them and therefore curating them. The only real problem is I dont want my people in real life to have that deep of an insight into my life. I want to create context for everyone I am talking to you internet mutal, you internet stranger, you dear friend and you dear foe. I want to tell you all different stories of my life. But the more I connect all of them to a single persona, especially one I carry on in the meat space the more I get the feeling of judgement or what person X would think when I read it. I am hundred percent fine with having all my digital art tied toghter, but having to answer questions here at my place about what this all is is kinda scary.

So where does this leave me? I made a lot of art and I tied it to my legal name. This is not the end of the world and I could argue that nobody cares. So I will just cut a few links. My main website (for now) is not having a "thats Kai and she is making videogames" section anymore. Also the website has almost no link to my blog anymore. I am planning a more handcoded website with a house like approach where there is more context and anonymity for me to hide behind. I want to make art and dont want to worry who reads these posts.

If you got any comments please send them my way with werk@werder.fyi

Best regards:

• Kai
• Proudmorning
• hazyrain?
• All the other alias I used which mostly were Kai + something

PS: the problem really is just that my first name and my last name make it hard to hide haha.

Thanks for reading my little self obsessed post.