About

Here you can find general information about this website and me.

The me

I don't usually like to tell about myself (probably because I don't know what to say).

I like to program, sometimes on JS or Lua, but lately usually on Java since my assignments require me to use it. Am not very skilled in any of the above, just enough to use them in small projects. Some of the best of mine are Minesweeper and Snake games.

And of course, I do like playing games, but I try not to spend too much time in them though I often do.
Some of my favourite games that I've ever played, although not necessarily play nowadays, are:

• Team Fortress 2 - probably the best FPS, is very interesting and not very competitive, so the community is not very toxic relatively to most other games;
• Portal series & mods - those "liminal spaces" actually feel very calming for me;
• Angels with Scaly Wings - surprising and charming story;
• Hollow Knight - fascinating lore of a beautiful kingdom;
• The Talos Principle - puzzles and philosophy apparently go well together;
• ...and of course many others, but it would take quite some time to recall all of them along with all the memories to make the complete summaries.

As for the other hobbies...
I draw sometimes, but I do it very rarely. I don't think there are any good drawings that I can show (Seriously, I don't draw much, and last time I published anything I wasn't as good as now, so it would be appreciated if you won't ask for them, at least now). I've been planning to make a gallery though, so maybe sometime I'll let everyone see them.
I also study languages sometimes, though I wouldn't like to tell about these publicly. Let's just say I know about 3.5 in total :p

Contact

You can usually find me with the "Meha931" name/tag on most places. I don't think there are many impersonators of me, but it's certainly taken by me on Steam and Github.

You also can could can (again) could can (!) send me an emаil. It was quite a pain to set it up for the first time, and less of a pain the second time, and a bit more the last time, but currently the mail server is up, so now you can send a message for me. If you're interested, the address that I had set for myself is control [аt] box [dоt] abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz [dоt] 123456789 [dоt] meha931 [dоt] xyz . Yes, this was a valid inbox that I can check whenever I log in as that user. I wasn't really able to reply using this address, since most email services outright reject messages (and not even give them a chance to end up at least in "Spam") if some security things haven't been set up, but last time I tried to set up a mailbox I realised I had the SPF record set up a wrong way, so now it's fixed and my messages do arrive to most email providers, though usually they end up in the "Spam" folder still.
Still, I'd prefer if you used other options of contacting me like Steam, since it's easy to fake the sender address in the messages, although I can manually check if the address is genuine.

I also have a Matrix server running at the moment! You can contact me at @emeha:m.meha931.xyz if you have an account in the federation.
(Not at the moment actually, it's under maintenance).

The site

Here's some technical info about the site:

• Hosted on a VPS that costs about $1 $3 $8 $3/month (yes, it was relocated many times) - currently it has under 1 GB of RAM, which should be enough for some games, though running any kind of server would be somewhat risky.
• Requests to this server are routed by Nginx. Most files are served by it too, but .ejs ones are handled by Node with some plugins.
• Let's Encrypt certificates, updated manually because I still don't really trust Certbot to edit my fragile Nginx config Last time I used Certbot, it somehow set up some timer to update the certificate automatically. I don't know if it actually works though.
• Views and other data that's not possible on a static page (basically nothing yet) is handled by the same server too. That was actually the reason why I decided to host the website on a server, though I might switch to something else sometime.
• The website's protected by Cloudflare. Although I have no clear idea of how it does the protection, because I still get a lot of strange requests.
  It's not exactly useful, and having unproxied domain name simply makes it more accessible and just a little bit more vulnerable.
• And the domain registrar... well, you can just do a Whois lookup 😅

Just don't attack the server please