NEWS

2025-08-01-WIP

BUGFIX: Gateway: The selection will now properly revert to either the previous setting or the default-fallback if the selected gateway fails the validity-test and the user opts to not use it.
BUGFIX: Files: Changing the tab should no longer fail when an item is selected.
CHANGE: Files: The selected item will now persist when switching between the 'TX-INFO' and 'PREVIEW' -tabs.

2025-07-31-WIP

The Projects-section now has a file preview tab; supporting only images, video and plaintext for now, until I'm absolutely certain that using iframes isn't an absolutely terrible idea. Furthermore, the items can now be locked for inspection - click on the row instead of the link.
The Production-section renamed to Projects as well as improved in general.
The transaction inspect tab of the Files-section has been overhauled as well, though it still needs to have a constant culumn width.
A few typos fixed, some text in Projects and About polished.
The Files-section now shows text-entries.
Still drawing breath yet the Adalimumab-experiment appears to not yield the desired results. Seems that I'll have to bruteforce my way through the exhaustion after all, but one last hope does exist, even if the best one had failed.

2025-07-24

Rewrote the site from scratch, still somewhat a work-in-progress.
I originally intended to do this to commemmorate the 10th anniversary of silanael.com back in 2024, yet ended up overshooting the planned date quite a bit as usual.
This iteration of the site makes use of Arweave - a blockchain for data-preservation - where it hopefully prevails long after I'm gone. It can always be accessed via an Arweave-gateway by using its transaction ID or the ArNS-name silanael.
The Production-section was added, going into details regarding my ongoing projects.
Reworked the layout of the About-section, and its topics are now selectable.
Arguments can be passed in the fragment-section of the URL (after the #) in the format of 'Setting=value' separated by semicolons, ie. https://silanael.arweave.net/#Gateway=https://permagate.io;LogLevel=0 For now, most arguments map directly to config keys and are case-sensitive. The values are not yet being validated.
The currently supported arguments are CfgFlags, LogLevel (currently inoperative), Gateway, CustomGateways, Links, RowClick, RowMClick, NoLoad, NoSave, Reset and MaxBlockHeight
Site settings now persist through sessions (saved in LocalStorage of the web browser).
New entry added to the About-section, with some of the old text altered/rewritten.
arweave.dev removed from gateways as it seems to now redirect to arweave.net and Firefox apparently thinks it's malicious.
I pushed to get this version ready before experimenting with restarting Adalimumab, a biological medicine that did not do a very good job at getting IBD under control, yet in conjuction with cortisone, it seemed to have a positive effect on the most significant issue I'm facing - the chronic exhaustion and feverishness. This switch does not come without its risks, which is one reason for this hastened schedule, another reason being my desire of getting some results while still suffering from it, in case it actually does mitigate that - call it a demonstration of willpower if you will. SART 0.6.0 has also been a part of this scretch, being more or less functionally ready, though a few things I still want to adjust with it may cause its release to fall slightly after the experiment. I really should have finalized a game or two by now, but at least I've managed to archived a significant amount of data under zPZe0p1Or5Kc0d7YhpT5kBC-JUPcDzUPJeMz2FdFiy4 and my other addresses to act as a decent soul capsule if things don't go as planned.

2021-03-03

NEW: Image [Musings of a Shattered Soul]
Off-site: Links to LBRY and YouTube added.
There is more to the image than is at first glance apparent.

2021-02-10

Sections About and Off-site added.
Production-section overhauled, now having files in it.
Contact-info updated.
PGP-key added.
Site improved in general.

ABOUT THE SITE

The Domain of Silanael is my personal homepage that contains all that you ever wanted to (and didn't want to) know about yours truly, acting as a soul capsule for anyone curious and bold enough to inspect.

This iteration of it makes heavy use of Arweave - a blockchain designed for long-term data preservation - where this website lives at along with my other production and things I've deemed worth preserving.

MAINTAINING ACCESS

The preferred way of accessing the most recent version of site is using its ArNS-name 'silanael'. This is done by prepending it to the hostname of any operational Arweave-gateway, ie.

if a link to the site or other content doesn't work, use a different gateway - while data cannot in theory be removed from a blockchain, the gateways used to access it can and will censor content by choosing not to serve ArNS-names or transactions their operators don't like.

If even this fails, access the site using its TXID or fetch it directly from a miner as the last resort.

SILANAEL.COM should also contain a mirror of the site, but as with all things web2, the domain is not going to be around indefinitely nor is its association with me in the distant future guaranteed.

The site is best viewed on Chromium 138.0.7204.168 web browser with horizontal screen and a mouse.

SITE VERSIONS

Releases only

By using a piece of software that accepts and sends cookie data (such as a web browser) along with executing foreign code, you consent to all the things that could happen as a result of it. Not that I have any desire to reward those interested in reading this little book of my soul with malicious acts; consider this to be my version of the usual "this site uses cookies" disclaimer. I feel that it is nonetheless paramount to understand and master the tools you use, whether it's the car you drive or the computer you use - this mindset tends to be far less prevalent than I would like, falling more and more out of favor with each addition of a quality-of-life feature in the tech we use that tends to not only dumb things down, but to abstract away the inner workings of a system. Alas, long gone are the days when one had to have some basic understanding on how computers worked in order to use them, the days when flipping the heavy-duty power switch resulted in the user being greeted with a blinking C:\ prompt on a black screen, or the "Non-system disk or disk error" message which, granted, caused quite a lot of grey hair even back in those days, but once the user found out what was causing it, they walked away with some more understanding of the x86 boot process, rendering the mitigation to further such errors as trivial as removing a floppy from the drive - quite literally so. Anyway, I digress - this site doesn't actually use any cookies, I just felt like going on a bit of a rant in here. Page and data fetches leave their usual traces in the HTTP server logs, but that's all. For now, at the very least. Hmm, this scroller is damn slow as a <marquee> element on Chromium 138.0.7204.49... Maybe I should make my own implementation of it at some point - an interactive one would be nice, used to add those into my Android-apps. Could implement it with WebGL for some neat effects, or even use as practice for WebGPU, though it would seem that Firefox still doesn't support the standards. Then again, Firefox is on its way to obscurity, and soon enough we'll have Ladybird taking its place, this new written-from-the-scratch browser hopefully coming to dethrone even the currently prevalent Chrome/Chromium and its forks. Anyway, that's it for now - greets to the kitty, the MX-guy, the sailor and the enjoyer of various things.