👋 Greetings humans
I'm Gray, short for Grayvox (/grā-vŏks/). That's an assumed name of course. Curious about my real name? Try here.
I'm a writer at heart - of code, stories, games, novels, ideas... anything, really. I'm currently working on some personal projects along with doing front end work for stable.dev, a hosting platform for Discord bots that is as scalable as possible. If you're curious about doing work with me or have an employment opportunity you'd want me for, consider contacting me here.
Below is a collection of my current fields of work, enjoy the reading. ✌️
Writing
I write. A lot. In many ways it's at the root of all of my main passions and endeavours. Keeping people up to date on my writing projects is hard because I often bounce between many at once. I also might be fixating on one that I won't be in a week. Tis the life of a neurodivergent writer... Anyways, in terms of my main writing projects, I run my own blog right here on this website, which mostly discusses... anything and everything involving my current projects and learning. I plan on doing more short story work, and have a secret novel project in the works that will hopefully come to fruition enough that I can talk about it publically... but we'll see.
↳ "There's always another secret." ―Brandon Sanderson, Mistborn: The Final EmpireProgramming
I started coding in Java, for Minecraft mods and plugins. Don't feel bad for me, I did it to myself. Nowadays, I'm a bit insane, so I have tried (and am still trying) experimenting with many different programming languages for pure curiosity's sake. Currently, I'm finding TypeScript to be my go to, however I also am dipping into Rust and Python, with a bit of Go and C# planned for the future. Almost all of my projects are open source on GitHub. My current focuses are a motivational and project app called Journalore, and a website template for web fictions called Supernovel. I dip into many different forms of programming from game dev, to system level, to automation, to web servers... yeah. Expect a lot of random projects.
↳ "Code Is Poetry." ―The WordPress FoundationObsidian
Obsidian is my favorite software (that I've found). Put simply, it's a Markdown file editor on steroids - featuring plugins, multiple styles of file management, graph views, "Bases" for database tables and more. I'm not hugely into the whole "second brain" methodology that many use with it, but as a writer and intense planner, Obsidian is my driver for any project I come up with. From novels, to job applications, to game design concepts, to TTRPG characters... I use it for everything basically. But above all, writing. I even wrote some Obsidian plugins of my own too.
↳ "...the files you create are more important than the tools you use to create them." ―Steph AngoVideo and Streams
When time allows, to showcase my projects and do talks on my current thoughts and random things I'm learning, I stream on Twitch. Streaming happens more often, since I often am not a consistent video editor, but can be sporadic. I always give updates on my socials if I'm planning on going live though, and if you still miss them, I post the VODs on my live channel. I also occasionally post edited videos on my main channel and something called Cavern Of Thought. My main channel is for project videos, previews and occasional fiction work. Meanwhile, Cavern Of Thought is a channel for short, simple videos about random topics involving writing, creating or coding new projects and what I find is best to make them happen.
↳ "Oxygen capitalism is a beautiful thing." ―DougDougGame Dev
I loved video games already - and then I found out making them is not that difficult. This, coupled with the newly added Software and Game Development category on Twitch, I finally decided a few years ago to make my game dev journey happen. Thus far, I've competed in Pirate Jam 15 and 16, with plans to compete in more jams and also make my own games seperately. The genres that I like to explore tend to be retro 2D, PS1 style 3D, visual novels, horror and point and click. Creators like Rayll, Mike Klubnika, Trioskaz, Wrong Organ and Lucas Pope are my personal inspirations.
↳ "Was this a good decision? I believe so." ―Mike Klubnika