Nope, no personal background information. This is about backgrounds. Background images, that is. Here, on this site.
You may have already noticed that a few pages had their backgrounds change on a daily basis lately. I have been testing assigning random backgrounds in my site generator to add a llitle variation to the site. And then kept going, creating more and more and more background images. Most of these come from old scenes, some from projects that have been on hold, and some scenes were specifically created to be used as backgrounds. Anyway, after countless hours of rendering, I am finally ready to reveal it. Starting today the background of each and every page here changes randomly on a daily basis. Different pages draw from different sets of random images. And, if you recall that this site has a light and a dark theme, multiply all of that by two. Both themes have their distinct sets of images.
There are also some more technical changes regarding image formats. Backgrounds are now in the WebP format instead of JPEG. And these now come in various resolutions, and the best match for your display is automatically selected. The gallery thumbnails are now also in WebP format instead of PNG. AVIF may be an even better choice than WebP, but my site generator does not (yet) support it. All this is aimed at reducing image sizes and improving page load speeds. It should be especially helpful if your bandwidth is low. However all the full size images are still in PNG format, because I just cannot bring myself to use a lossy format that compromises on quality there.
I hope you will enjoy visiting often, not just for the actual content, but for the ever varying images behind it.