hello i am kevin this is my website hooray

About

• I'm Kevin. I enjoy working on a variety of technical and artistic projects, which include web development, creative coding, embedded systems, music, and visual art.
• I have a B.S. in Computer Engineering with a Minor in Anthropology from the University of California, Irvine.
• Feel free to send me an email: xu (at) kxvin (dot) com
• This site was generated with 11ty and is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. See the source code!

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December 2024

• Moved my personal note system (back to) Obsidian after running into some flaws in Notion's export system which locked me out of downloading my files locally
• Revamped the whole website and how I manage the website's content. Writeup here.

September 2024

• Reorganized my personal note system (in Notion) to better keep track of my ideas and projects.
• Trying to figure out a way to sync information between Notion and this website to make updating this website easier.

April 2024

• Playing around with window managers and desktop setups.

December 2023

• I've been enjoying work.
• I have a couple of projects brewing in my mind. We'll see if I'll get to them...

August 2023

• Started working full time!

June 2023

• I graduated! It's been a long four years.
• Made a pixel art landscape for the website background.

March 2023

• Some small styling changes on the website, such as two column lists for wider displays.

January 2023

• Adding in my [tech] projects I made in the past but didn't document on this website.
  • These will be back-dated to better represent the chronological order of these projects.

December 2022

• Currently reading The Design of Everyday Things.
• Hacked togther a browser extension to move around clues on a janky crossword website.
• Simplified and cleaned up the website.
• Now a member of the xxvvii webring !

November 2022

• Currently reading Sapiens.
• Updated this website with pinned articles and a better generative art showcase gallery.

October 2022

• Finally figured out how to use Renoise and got back into making music.
• School stuff and cooking.

August 2022

• Switched from using Nuxt to 11ty for this website. Better content management and static site-ness :)
• Making generative art.
• Looking into making physical prints of my art.
• Final year of college begins.