PHONE DISCLAIMER

I'm already whelmed enough just making this website work at all, I cannot also spend time on making sure it looks good on any mobile device, too. If you came here on a phone or tablet or smartfridge, please imagine it looking much better on PC.

Welcome to my little, very prototypical, website!

Small Update: I married in September, so at least the most stressful part of 2025 is done. I'll see if I can't make the site more "me" over the next couple weeks months

Help meeee: If you know how I can make a button that adds a simple dot or character to one of my .html pages and saves that whenever a visitor clicks the button, please tell me. I looked for hours and couldn't find what I needed (or more likely I couldn't recognise when I found what I needed). I'd like to have some interactive way of recording actual human visits, because I'm pretty sure most of my site visits come from web crawling robots instead actual people.

This website is , what's your's?

This website produces around 0,16 g of CO2-equivalents per view

Is that a lot? Well, it depends. For such a basic and trash website, it sure is not very efficient and I would guess it mainly comes from the size of the images that need to be loaded. Does it make a tangible impact? Not really. I barely get 50-100 views per day and maybe 20-30 "unique visitors". And I would guess most of these are web crawlers (do they need to load less data than real people? I would think so, but have no idea to be honest). Compare that to things like old.reddit.com with 0,09 g CO2e per view or the new reddit.com with 0,35 g CO2e per view.

Yeah, old reddit might produce only around half of the CO2e compared to my site (honestly positively surprised; I knew the old reddit was lightweight but not THAT lightweight), but even old reddit has a whoooole bunch of people who use it. And I don't have to tell you how many people visit the new reddit (if only because they don't know of the superior old.reddit.com, which - as I now know - is not only superior in usability and look but also in their carbon footprint).

I'll just let the basic tutorial stuff exist as a link to a subpage Heeeere. I very briefly had a super basic website like more than a decade ago. Now I wanna have that again, but in maybe a bit less crappy. I got no real clue aside from "nature, games, hurdy gurdy" about what to throw up here.

If you want, you can visit my itch.io page to check out the prototype-and-super-revolutionary games I work on.

The current moonphase

About Me

(currently feeling The current mood of Crotaro at www.imood.com vs the internet's The current mood of the Internet at www.imood.com)

Gaming

Hurdy Gurdy Stuff

This is my current instrument, which I bought second-hand. For anyone familiar with luthiers, this one was most likely made by more of a hobbyist, from what the gurdy community could figure out. I still like Count Gurdula very much, even if they have a couple quirks.

The latest song I learned to play okay-ly is a/the(?) Chapelloise(sp.?). I was inspired to learn it because the medieval band we hired for our wedding played it during the group-dance and it's really catchy. You can find one rendition of the Chapelloise here on ThinePipe.

Nature things I find interesting

I found this cute painted rock while walking my dogs. It just lay there on the street, so I picked it up and gave it a nicer rest with these purple flowers. Don't worry, whoever put it there in the first place will still be able to find it. It's just a meter or so away from its original spot.