The new and improved jamesmartini.me

6 May 2026

Wow, a new website!!

Welcome to the newly renovated (rebuilt) jamesmartini.me, the hub for all things relating to me, James Martini!

For anyone who might have glanced passively at my previous website, hosted on Wordpress, this will look pretty dramatically different. Additionally, for anyone who might have looked at my Substack and has already peeked at the “Whale Watching” tab, you might have noticed all of my Substack posts are also on here now.
That’s because, for reasons we’re about to get into, I have redesigned and consolidated my scattered web presence into one place! Read on to learn more about why and see a rundown of the different areas of the site or just get exploring!

I HATE CORPORATIONS

To spare you a lot of uninteresting details I just wrote and immediately deleted, the general history of jamesmartini.me is that it started out as a Squarespace site to host my portfolio for college applications, then became a Wordpress site because Squarespace is terrible and awful, and now is a Neocities site because Wordpress, while less terrible and awful, is still no fun.

Ultimately, over the past six months, I’ve started to become a big believer in truly owning the software I use. I’ve switched over almost entirely to using open source software (moving to Linux is my last step), transferred my domain to Porkbun, a smaller, more friendly-looking registrar (also Oregon-based so I’m supporting local businesses ;P) and am currently strategizing how to set up my own server so I can host web apps that can replace things like Notion, Jira, and Drive¹. As a part of that, I wanted to know every line of code in my website. I didn’t want to rely on pre-made Wordpress nodes that I barely understood, I wanted what you see on this website to be the result of my own knowledge and work. I wanted my website itself to be a portfolio piece.

Of course, if I truly wanted to own this website, I would host the site on my own and not on Neocities, but I’ve decided to stick with Neocities partially for the convenience and partially because I enjoy the idea that my website exists in a community of people who feel similarly to me.
You can call this small web or indie web or old web or whatever, but the core principle is that I’m the one in control.

Sitemap

You’re here! As I alluded to earlier, this website merges all of the work I have online into one place (minus my itch.io, but I have important games on here at least). As such, there are a few different main areas here I’ll walk you through.

Home

This is the personal section of this website. This is where you’ll find the information relating to me and what I’m up to.

• The “Now!” page has little status updates and what I’ve been reading/playing/watching.
• The “Portfolio” page has information on some of the biggest stuff I’ve worked on and links on where to learn more.
• The “Contact” page has my contact info.

Games

The games tab is, well, the hub for my game projects. Right now there are just pages for two of my biggest games, but eventually I’ll try to flesh it out with regular devlogs, technical pages, guides, and whatever else I feel like writing.

Whale Watching

Whale Watching is the digital zine that I started at the beginning of this year, but I’m turning it into a catch-all for all of my writing.

• “Quarterly” is where you can find the latest issues of the Whale Watching Quarterly zine.
• “Rankings” is where you can find rankings I’ve done of some artists whose work I’ve dived deep into.
• “Blog” is for all other writing that I do. (This post is in the blog!)

And that’s the entire site. Get clicking!!