diff --git a/src/blog/1.md b/src/blog/1.md
index d85a70c..be20d7c 100644
--- a/src/blog/1.md
+++ b/src/blog/1.md
@@ -1,17 +1,16 @@
 # <a href="#2025-02-13" name="2025-02-13">*this (2025-02-13)</a>
 Naturally I devote the first blog post to the creation of this website. 
-Let's find out if I'm any good in writing such things.
 
 ## Motivation
-The motivation for the website came from frustration with modern sites and a bit of nostalgia.
-But mainly I wanted the [now()](now.html) and the [beliefs()](beliefs.html) pages. They provide me
-with a public place to document what I'm doing and what I believe and give me a correctiv.
+The motivation came of course from frustration with modern sites and a bit of nostalgia.
+But mainly I wanted the [now()](now.html) and the [about()](about.html) pages. They provide me
+with a public place to document what I'm on and what I believe and give me a corrective.
 I can't remember where I read about it the first time, but I thought the idea was neat.
 Especially as more of a private person, it motivates me to keep going with things when I 
 imagine people reading this.
 
 The design of this page is as bad as it is, because for once, it was the style at the time 
-(be happy I don't include a `<marquee>` tag. After all. Why not.) and secondly:
+(be happy I don't include a `<marquee>` tag. Worst loss of the net...) and secondly:
 I just suck at it. Deal with it :)
 
 Having programmed some time with modern JS/TS frameworks I'm a stark oppponent of this
diff --git a/src/pages/about.html b/src/pages/about.html
index 519c717..e8cc2f6 100644
--- a/src/pages/about.html
+++ b/src/pages/about.html
@@ -1,13 +1,21 @@
-<main id="beliefs">
+<main id="about">
   <h1 id="mainHeading">mount /dev/about</h1>
 
   stuff about me.
 
+  <h2>interests</h2>
+  <ul>
+    <li>embedded</li>
+    <li>hw debuggers</li>
+    <li>old tech</li>
+    <li>history</li>
+    <li>strat games</li>
+  </ul>
+
   <h2>command line tools</h2>
   <ul>
     <li>terminal emulator: kitty (for static stuff), yakuake (for ad-hoc stuff)</li>
     <li>shell: fish</li>
-    <li>fish pkg manager: omf (need to change to fisher)</li>
     <li>file search: fd</li>
     <li>grep: ripgrep</li>
     <li>editor: neovim</li>
@@ -33,6 +41,6 @@
       this led to programming being to unoptimized. but i know of enough people still overoptimizing.
     </p>
     
-    <span>last updated: 25-07-22</span>
+    <span>last updated: 2026-04-30</span>
 
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diff --git a/src/pages/blog.html b/src/pages/blog.html
index 5fe8442..e7839fc 100644
--- a/src/pages/blog.html
+++ b/src/pages/blog.html
@@ -4,16 +4,16 @@
 <h1 id="this-2025-02-13"><a href="#2025-02-13" name="2025-02-13">*this
 (2025-02-13)</a></h1>
 <p>Naturally I devote the first blog post to the creation of this
-website. Let’s find out if I’m any good in writing such things.</p>
+website.</p>
 <h2 id="motivation">Motivation</h2>
-<p>The motivation for the website came from frustration with modern
-sites and a bit of nostalgia. But mainly I wanted the <a
-href="now.html">now()</a> and the <a href="beliefs.html">beliefs()</a>
-pages. They provide me with a public place to document what I’m doing
-and what I believe and give me a correctiv. I can’t remember where I
-read about it the first time, but I thought the idea was neat.
-Especially as more of a private person, it motivates me to keep going
-with things when I imagine people reading this.</p>
+<p>The motivation came of course from frustration with modern sites and
+a bit of nostalgia. But mainly I wanted the <a href="now.html">now()</a>
+and the <a href="about.html">about()</a> pages. They provide me with
+a public place to document what I’m on and what I believe and give me a
+correctiv. I can’t remember where I read about it the first time, but I
+thought the idea was neat. Especially as more of a private person, it
+motivates me to keep going with things when I imagine people reading
+this.</p>
 <p>The design of this page is as bad as it is, because for once, it was
 the style at the time (be happy I don’t include a
 <code>&lt;marquee&gt;</code> tag. After all. Why not.) and secondly: I
diff --git a/src/pages/now.html b/src/pages/now.html
index 6919316..843964e 100644
--- a/src/pages/now.html
+++ b/src/pages/now.html
@@ -6,24 +6,26 @@
     <h2>projects</h2>
     <ul>
         <li>this</li>
-        <li><a href="https://tixy.land/">tixy.land</a> inspired shader on dot-matrix controlled by old calculator</li>
-        <li>redcode fpga design</li
+        <li><a href="https://www.traintrackr.co.uk/">traintrackr</a> inspired map of my train line</li>
     </ul>
     <h2>education</h2>
     <ul>
-        <li>jtag debuggers</li>
+        <li>Italian</li>
     </ul>
 
     <h2>reading</h2>
     <ul>
         <li><a href="https://nostarch.com/building-a-debugger">Sy Brand - Building a Debugger</a></li>
-        <li>J.R.R. Tolkien - Lord of the rings</li>
+        <li>Plato - Republic</li>
     <h2>old projects</h2>
     <h3>finished</h3>
+    <li>jtag debugging</li>
+    <li>J.R.R. Tolkien - Lord of the rings</li>
     <h3>on-hold</h3>
+    <li>redcode fpga design</li
+    <li><a href="https://tixy.land/">tixy.land</a> inspired shader on dot-matrix controlled by old calculator</li>
     <ul>
         <li>French</li>
-        <li>Italian</li>
         <li>Swedish</li>
     </ul>
 
@@ -33,5 +35,5 @@
         <li><s>learning colemak</s> - hjkl in vim</li>
     </ul>
 
-    <span id="updated">updated: 2025-07-22</span>
+    <span id="updated">updated: 2026-04-30</span>
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