Sawyinator

Yo, I'm Sawyinator. My real name, though, is Brook. I'm a yorkshire lad, and I'm big on playing video games. If you want to see them, I post clips and highlights from all of the games I play with my friends on my YouTube channel.

When it comes to games, Undertale is my favourite of any game by far. Never have I, and never will I love another game the same way i love undertale. Its just that good. Some other peak media that i need to mention in an about me would be 'Three Days of Happiness', 'Onani-Master Kurosawa' (a little weird, but god am i a sucker for a good redemption arc), 'A Silent Voice', and 'Re:Zero'. I cannot recommend any of these to be consumed enough. Some of them quite literally changed my life. Anyway, I'm getting off track.

I was born in the 2000s and my main hobbies are gaming. That's it, unfortunately. My dream job would be to become a youtuber, hence the channel linked. It just seems like a natural evolution of a person who enjoys playing games. I put the story for this website below, and that might give you a little more insight into me if you read it, so feel free to.

Everything here is open-source and available on GitHub. Explore it at your own leisure.

Most of this website is just a passion project that I started because of one simple thing, and that thing is A-INT. So, story-time.

When I was in high school, I was in my business class, and I was bored as all hell. Naturally, I started doing everything in my power to pay less attention to the teacher, and that resulted in me fiddling around with the Apple Watch I had on at the time. I started flicking through the different face styles you could have, messing around with the complications, and I landed on the Numerals Duo style. While doing this, I managed to stumble across the different numeral styles available, and at the time I think there was only Arabic-Indic and Devanagari. At this point in my life, I didn't even know that there were different styles for numbers; I had thought that everyone used the Western Arabic digits, so I ended up being quite intrigued. I decided "fuck it," flipped on the Arabic-Indic digits, and let it stick. Anything to get away from the boredom of business—and learning this fascinating new number system seemed like a good way to do that.

So over the course of the next year, I learned these numbers using my watch. I had a full grasp on what each number was (minus some periodic confusion over 2 and 6, or 7 and 8), but then Apple dropped the update which allowed you to customise your home screen, including changing the digit style. This meant that after about a year of learning these numerals from my watch, I was also able to have them on my phone. This was groundbreaking to me, and I started seeing the lack of fluency in my reading of those digits now that I had no other way to read the time.

After a long while (maybe a couple of years? I'm pretty bad with time, to be honest), I decided that because my fluency hadn't improved at all, I needed to do something. So I hopped on Gemini and generated a simple basis for A-INT.

I got sick of throwing this HTML file I had downloaded on my PC around, so I bit the bullet, made a GitHub account, and uploaded A-INT. This made it click in my head: "Oh shit, this is public now, and if people need it, they can use it." I began working on making the page appealing and selling this HTML file (metaphorically selling—the file was and is free). Things spiralled; I added a feature to A-INT, then another, and then another, and I ended up with a pretty solid program. But I still had one issue: I was sick of this damn HTML file. That led me to GitHub Pages, a free way to have the project be accessible from any browser. Therefore, I began work on a basic landing page and uploaded A-INT to GitHub Pages (this was still sawyinator.github.io at the time).

Something about having a website that everyone in the world could access lit a fire under me, and the urge to build, and build, and build just overtook me. After improving A-INT to a point where I didn't think it had much more room for improvement, I decided to buy a domain. I looked across Cloudflare and found that 'sawyinator.uk' was pretty damn cheap. (To be honest, I don't remember if the CMD Shutdown Timer or the new domain name came first, so we're just going with the story that the domain name came first.)

So, I bought it.

And with that, we're at the conception of sawyinator.uk as it is today. Long story, but nonetheless, that's the entire series of events that led us here. Now that I look back at this description, I realise how warranted an ASD diagnosis was, lol.

Thank you for reading this. I don't quite even know why I wanted to tell this whole story, but you reading it—even if it was only you—made it all worth it. Now you know me a little better, and it's a nice thought that someone who could be across the globe, someone I don't even know, now understands me even if just a little. I hope you have a lovely day. This will be Sawyinator signing off.