अमरूद f.k.a. phenakistoskope
This site was created to practice coding and as a place to station stray thoughts and scraps of information gathered from the world. The information found here will be poorly organised, the thoughts fragmented and incoherent, the code barely functional. And yet, it will persist.
So far, i've found myself using this space to think about the books i read, by writing about them. Consequently, this site is mostly composed of text, which has, thus far, largely been in English. Certain scraps have been rendered in Bengali, Hindi, or French, and this sporadic bilingualism will continue.
The site is written in HTML and CSS; it is hand-coded by a beginner, and supplemented by the occasional snippet of JavaScript, inserted to save time. The site is mostly mobile friendly, but in case it isn't, i'm troubleshooting as i go.
Updates
| 13.04.26 | migrated the journal to bearblog |
| 09.04.25 | added mycelium |
| 04.04.26 | march log added, bookbug and reading log updated. |
| 23.03.26 | simplified everything considerably. |
| 05.03.26 | new journal entry. |
| 28.02.26 | february log is up. |
| 21.02.26 | updated the reading log. |
| 13.02.26 | i had the evening off and things got out of hand. |
| 12.02.26 | redid the january log |
| 11.02.26 | experimenting with CSS only tabbed navigation. |
| 31.01.26 | january log added, reading log and bookbug updated |
| 15.01.26 | tweaked the theme a third time |
| 03.01.26 | updated the reading log |
| 06.12.25 | tweaked the theme again |
| 02.12.25 | tweaked the theme + review of Under the Skin |
| 29.11.25 | review of Temple of the Golden Pavilion |
| 28.02.25 | review of Despair |
| 01.02.25 | review of Invisible Cities |
| 11.01.25 | review of American Psycho |
| 24.12.24 | bookbug page + review of The Death of Ivan Ilyich |
| 14.12.24 | review of The Vegetarian |