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2026-07-09 10:00 GMT+12 personal,tech

I updated my Mastodon server's domain, updated my personal website, and changed my profile picture. Probably not to everybody's taste, but it's my server and my website, so there. 🙂

Hand-writing websites is fun. I based the current design on a website that was around in the 2000s and 2010s, feet.net.nz, run by a New Zealand-based photographer called Kyle Carter. I'm not sure why his website is called Feet Gallery, because it doesn't really have any feet on it other than the two in the logo. I'd ask but, to be honest, I don't really care; after all, if anybody were to ask me "why feet?", my answer would be a simple "why not?" and that's good enough for me as an explanation for anything else.

Not that there was anything that links our websites other than the domain name, really. But, given my username has long had the word 'feet' in it somewhere or other, his website used to pop up from time to time in web searches. I'd have a look. So now, I made a sort of tribute to a self-run blog of the best kind: the early 2000s kind!

Here's a comparison.

A screenshot of the original feet.net.nz from 2010. The background is dark blue, with the soles of two bare feet serving at the top-left as a logo. Next to the feet, text in a large yellow text reads 'Feet Gallery'. Due to how web technology has marched on, some of the fonts are incorrectly sized.
The original feet.net.nz. Due to how web technology has marched on, some of the fonts are incorrectly sized.
A screenshot of this website, feets.co.nz, using a similar design to the previous screenshot. The bagkground is a slightly lighter blue. It imitates the original website's logo using a foot instead of two feet, the large yellow text reads 'Feets', and there is a sidebar.
This website that you're looking at now (which is likely to have changed by the time you read it). I incorporated the blue colour scheme (which I've always used), the large yellow text, and the early 2000s-style sidebar which you don't see so often anymore.