Hello! Welcome to my website! You can call me Tom! Of course, this is just a random English name I picked. For privacy reasons, I may not reveal information that could be linked to my real identity on this website. I was born and raised in Beijing, and now live in Hong Kong. My MBTI is ENFP! If you like my website, feel free to leave a message on the guestbook on the homepage, or contact me via the email address shown at the bottom of this page!

The Journey of This Website

Actually, before this Neocities website, I had built a personal website using WordPress. But the server I rented was hacked, and a lot of data that wasn't backed up in time was lost. After that, it took several years before I started rebuilding my personal website on Neocities. I didn't know about this kind of personal website hosting service before, and in fact, it's much better than the previous WordPress hosting solution. Because I only need to focus on HTML/CSS details, without having to spend energy maintaining the server I rented. I didn't know about the existence of Neocities-like websites for a long time, which may be due to the fact that the Chinese blogosphere and the blogospheres of other countries are usually quite isolated, leading to obvious differences in the paths people take. If you look at "萌国ICP" and "十年之约", you'll find that most of the personal websites written by Chinese people listed there use WordPress or Hexo solutions, which is very different from the characteristics on Neocities.

Why I Created This Website

As for why I created such a website, I think the reason is that I want to have a network space completely controlled by myself, where I can write down what I want to say and what I want to show. I also often post content on some social media, but sometimes I still feel that posting is a very limited form, and your speech on social media may be censored, or there are many overly strict rules regulating you, which can be very annoying. In a website, you can use code to freely create the forms of expression you envision, and relatively speaking, the atmosphere for publishing content and speech is much more relaxed than social media. Therefore, if you want to richly present your own world, I think making a personal website is an excellent way.

As for content, let me talk about a problem that everyone may encounter. Many times you have a brilliant idea in your mind, or you remember something interesting you want to look up, but you might think "let me do it when I'm not busy" or "after I finish watching this video". But when that time really comes, you've already forgotten what you wanted to do. At that moment, you might regret it terribly—just now you thought your idea was so brilliant over and over again, how could you forget it in a flash? If you have a website at this time, you can collect these things you think are good and create presentations on the website, instead of letting them flash through your mind and never come back like those old ideas. I think everyone's quirky ideas are a kind of precious wealth that belongs to them. This wealth should not be wasted, but should be slowly accumulated like a collection, and can be constantly recalled in the future. This is my purpose for creating this website from a content perspective.

What You Can Find on This Website

As for the content of the entire website, I have temporarily divided it into the following sections:

• Home: The homepage is also a brief introduction, with some interactive sections such as virtual pets, question boxes, polls, etc. I will further enrich my homepage in the future, making the materials and interactive effects presented on the homepage richer, and I will also add more interactive features. Stay tuned!
• Blog: I may write some long articles to delve into topics I like, and this content will be placed in this section. I will strive to achieve a clean and refreshing written layout for this section. At the same time, I will also experiment with inserting some interactions in long articles (such as possibly writing some multi-branch interactive games in the future, etc.). I have also written some articles before, but also due to the different website architecture, it takes some work for me to migrate articles from the original backups, and I may not start doing this in the short term. But eventually, what I have written will appear on Neocities with my new layout design, and I will try my best to achieve bilingual presentation of each post in both Chinese and English to meet the needs of global readers. Now if you click on this page, you can see the article titles, which are articles whose full content will be published within half a year.
• Aero Calc: My major is aerospace engineering, specifically aerodynamics, so when building the website, I also want to use my understanding of this field to write some practical calculation tools to help people in this industry (especially students in the learning stage) to improve their work efficiency. In the future, I may design other tools related to other aspects of aerospace engineering beyond aerodynamics and upload them to this website. Stay tuned.
• Monument: In Chinese high school physics textbooks, Professor Feng Duan, former president of the Chinese Physical Society, was quoted as saying: In addition to erecting monuments for scientists like Joule, Helmholtz, and Mayer who made outstanding contributions, we should also build a monument to unknown heroes, with the most appropriate inscription being "In memory of those who struggled and failed to achieve perpetual motion machines." I was deeply touched when I saw this quote. Think about it, it was precisely countless people's attempts in every possible way that allowed us to get rid of the fantasy of achieving perpetual motion machines and truly reveal the iron law of energy conservation. Therefore, the continuous failures of predecessors are actually worthy of our commemoration. There is most likely no such dedicated monument in reality, and I haven't encountered one on the internet either. Therefore, I have set up this perpetual motion machine monument on my website to commemorate them!
• About Me: This page probably doesn't need an introduction hahahahahaha