The Hydrargyry Kennelz logo, a light dog silhouette against a darker mercury symbol. Both the silhouette and the symbol have teal, blue, and purple gradients.
Ivy's Petz Blog

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♧ — If you're looking for my old WordPress posts, they're archived here. — ♧

Welcome to my Petz blog! Here, you can see all my posts. Most are Petz related, or talk about site updates. Occasionally I might share a tidbit of something else.

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2025-04-15

Winding down a bit

As this is quite literally my last three days of university, and I have exams and need to move out, I have started to update the WordPress archive less, skipping it entirely today.

You can probably expect more from me again starting Saturday April 18! I'll be moved out of residence and living at home again by then.


2025-04-12

Slowly but surely!

An image of the petfile of a dog named Lucky open in HxD, a hex editor, overlaid with a blue illustration of DNA.

I've added more to the WordPress archive, and added the genetics guide! I also fixed the glitch where the favicon wouldn't show up, lol.


2025-04-11

It's all coming together.

A decorative teal, blue, and purple line.

My cliques, stamps, and downloads are working now! Go grab anything you want from there!


2025-04-10

New site, who dis?

White text reading Hydrargyry Kennelz is next to the site logo, a cyan dog silhouette against a purple alchemical mercury symbol. The whole thing is on a teal, blue, and purple gradient.

I really feel like a proper Petz community member now, lol. I've moved my stuff here from my Wordpress because, well, I despise Automattic and its founder so, so much. I want absolutely nothing to do with Matt Mullenweg because of numerous reasons that I'm sure some of you are aware of. Plus, WordPress and Automattic as a whole are also very open to generative AI, while I... am not, to say the least. I intially was just going to switch to CosmicWord, but decided against it as it looked too complex for me. Then I started using Silex, and was going to publish this on Gitlab, but I had troubles with that too. So, now, I came here! If it works for everyone else, it works for me. Besides, I have a bit of HTML knowledge thanks to Tumblr... which, on that note, despite Tumblr also being an Automattic-owned social, I will still keep using it out of begrudging love for the platform and the people there.

Anyway, here's my plans for the site for now, in roughly the order I want to complete them: