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  • Drop Cap Fun

    Another experiment I delved into was creating a drop cap- you know, the fancy big letter before a paragraph starts. Messing with the text spacing was definitely the most annoying part, but like with the text shadow animations I had fun making something I thought looked pretty. Here’s two examples of the same drop cap…

  • Text Shadow Fun

    Over the holidays, I’ve been spending some time looking at mini project ideas on Codepen and trying out new skills. Here I had a bunch of fun messing around with text shadows and simple CSS animations! This should show a bunch of colorful text animations, where the colorful text shadows move back and forth forever.…

  • Dice Roller

    I’m a fan of the tabletop roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons, which utilizes a range of die types from a classic 6-sided die- a D6- to a D20. Sometimes, though, you need to roll multiple of a certain type at once, and it can be much quicker and easier to use an online tool to…

  • Carolina Wren Button

    For my father’s birthday, I drew some art of one of his favorite birds to turn into a button using simple javascript! When you click the wren, its beak opens and the audio clip of its song starts playing; when you click it again, its beak closes and the song pauses. Your browser does not…

  • Review: “The Bright Sword” by Lex Grossman (2024)

    “The Bright Sword” follows a young man named Collum from the outer reaches of the British isles who wants to join King Arthur’s Camelot as a Knight of the Round Table. Unfortunately, upon arrival he finds out that King Arthur is dead, as are all the other famous knights.

  • Introduction

    Testing, testing, 1 2 3! Hello, my name is Madeline, and I’m the creator of this site. I’m using it as a way to learn and practice using WordPress! To really practice I need to fill up this site with content, so I’ll be discussing plenty of media I enjoy and maybe including original artwork.…