The Making of the CCN0 Portal

Hey, it's CCN0, notorious bullshit maker. I am a big fan of making useless gizmos. I found some cool things and exploits, which then led to the making of the CCN0 Portal, which has gone through many updates and changes until I finally made the version you see now.

Tinkering

If you're wondering, I fucked around a lot with the school computers. I was a notorious soundboard user, 'the hacker dude', and many other nicknames from my antics. All of my bullshitting led to my school laptop being taken away and my school account being locked. I have many words about this decision but it led to me one day tinkering with the log in kiosk. Which then led to me breaking out of the log in page onto Microsoft's homepage. This was a huge breakthrough as this worked just like a private tab, and you could just browse like you were logged in!

One problem:

You couldn't just enter a URL. You had to go through a search engine to get to many things, which was either annoying or impossible. Going to my site was annoying, and getting to cool sites like game sites, videos, media, and tools like Skool and Polaris were basically impossible. But then I had an idea.

You remember Yahoo?

I opened an old website template I had lying around. I made a shitty little form to go to any URL, and added some links to many websites. And it worked. It was fine to use, but later when using it, I realized how bad it looked on the tiny log in kiosks, and it looked off on big kiosks. But I was busy working on other projects, like Notepad Win and GlobalClocks, so I left it to rot, and the CCN0 Portal entered hiatus.

Life without the Web

Using school computers without logging in was very fun. I would play games fine (they were slower, which I suspect was because they didn't allocate shit for the log in screen), and Instagram, YouTube TikTok all worked on it. There were basically no issues. I even added a rAdBOX to it, but it looked like shit. But then I got tired of it. It was overly bright, had a shitty UI, and basically nothing from the modern age. So I decided I was going to catalog many websites, tools, social medias, and more shit and keep them in mind for when I update the site.

Starting from Scratch (kinda)

I was working on a different project at the time, which let you make bento-box UI websites easy. Unfortunately, I thought about it a little more, and realized it would allow many malware things and other bullshit to exist, under MY website. So I canned it. I had this code and CSS with no use. Until I realized something. This would be perfect for a web directory, such as the CCN0 Portal. And I got to work. In one day, I had the CCN0 Portal looking better than ever. It looks good on small displays, large displays, it had a responsive layout, and looked very modern. It was basically perfect. I updated the 'How to get back' section and eventually updated my disclaimers.

Currently, the CCN0 Portal is working fine without JavaScript, or even CSS. People have been using it so much, that if you search 'ccn0 portal' on Bing, you can get to my site without typing a URL. It's one of my best works, and I hope to be updating it for years to come with more bullshit and other shit. Thank you for reading about my bullshit, maybe you'll find a use for it as well.

Terter v0.1.4 & Terter v0.1.5

Changes

• Fixed URL checking
• Made URL list text smaller

Added

• URL List now lets you delete and jump to the URL.

yeah i forgot 2 versions

Terter v0.1.3

Changes

• Support for wildcards (*) in URLs. e.g. (*://example.com) or (*#helloworld)
• Popup now displays saved URLs

I hated working on this and may never do it again. I also hate making extensions for Firefox, as it is a pain in the ass. Anyways, have fun with wildcards and being able to actually delete your saved pages in a less convoluted way.

BIRTHDAY 2024

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Today marks the day that CCN0 as a project turns 4 years old. To celebrate, I have many projects to announce and release. Many of these projects are being worked on in the background for the past few months or even years, and its finally the occasion to announce these projects.

Terter v0.1.3

Terter allows you to change the HTML that loads when you go to a URL. This update brings wildcards in URLs e.g. (*://example.com/*). It also allows you to see all stored URLs so you can see and delete stored URLs easier. This update should be done by the time your reading this. If not, it's the Firefox version's fault, and it should be done later this week.

GlobalClocks V7

GlobalClocks for the longest time has only had days, hours, minutes and seconds. Soon, you will be able to see months, years, and the counters that don't matter will now be truncated when they aren't being used. This should be out right now, and if it's not, then it will be out sometime in a few weeks.

Screensaver

CCN0 Screensaver allows to edit or run a screensaver entirely within your browser. You can draw, add images, and have these run periodically while you aren't using your computer. I also have plans to add a bookmarklet feature to use your screensaver incase you go inactive on a webpage. This project should get done by about July or August.

CCN0TEBOOK v2

CCN0TEBOOK v2 builds onto the original app, with going back pages, color, brush width, onion skinning, importing, and exporting. You will get a .txt for the notebooks made to be embedded anywhere you want to use them.

CNB HTML Plugin

A script to use <cnb> tags to embed CCN0TEBOOKs on any webpage. Very simple to use. You would use <cnb src="book.txt"></cnb> to embed a notebook inside of an HTML file. You will append in the <head> a script to use it.

This project and the plugin should be done by the time you are reading this. If not, it should be done later this year.

Site Changes (finally)

Yup. I'm finally getting around to doing it, finishing the job of adding the new theme to every page that still has embedded styles, ccn0.css, or remote fonts. I'm not gonna lie, this could take all year, but I'm trying my best. I also want to find a way to make this site work with JSON or RSS somehow, but I don't know.

Games

I have no games to announce so far, but I am still working on many games, which might include Nexploration 2, but I am still working out that idea. The one game that has been on the coming soon section is still being worked on, but is not in a state where I could announce or release any information on it. Also this ties in to the next project.

CCanvasEngine

A simple game engine that allows you to quickly make games for the web on desktop and mobile. It has digital keys and touchpad for mobile so they get the same experience as they would on computer. The engine also has helpful objects and functions such as mousepointer, fenceObject, playAudio, and more. This project should be done sometime in either late 2024 or 2025. And yes, it's called CCanvasEngine because CanvasEngine was already taken.

Multitaxes

A desktop environment on the web. You can open multiple tasks and windows like games, media, webpages, and more. You can customize the entire desktop, icons, colors, and windows using a custom theme. This project should hopefully be done in late 2025.

Concluding

I have worked on so many things, tools, apps, games, and projects throughout my existence as CCN0. I hope to continue to work on these projects until they are perfect and never need to be changed again. Thank you for reading, and thank you for caring enough to read paragraphs for a birthday.

p.s many things and projects are subject to change, including my plans for them. and likebutton is coming soon

rAdBOX V4

Changes

• code optimizations
• no longer relies on numbers
• i think the domain thing works now

New

• support for descriptions

I have many surprises for CCN0's birthday, this was not one of them. It's also April fools and I have no pranks.

Nexploration v1.3.2 (Final Update)

Nexploration's development has finally ended. I had fun working on this game, and it came out basically exactly how I imagined it in my head. After spending a few days to fix up all the last major bugs and adding cheats, I finally feel like it's complete. There's nothing more I could add. I wanted to do a graphics update, but I felt it was too much pressure and effort for not much reward.

p.s. debug mode is accessed through clicking on the i in Nexploration a lot. use / to type stuff, or just use mobile controls to use turbowarp/scratch inputs.

Mastodon

The Things Blog has finally been replaced. I have decided that Mastodon is very similar to the vision that I wanted for the Things Blog, and so I now have a Mastodon account.

You can follow it here, and can expect the original Things Blog link to instead link to this blog on January 31st, 2024.

p.s. I accidentally left a GlobalClocks embed test on the side so oops.