This blog: or sharing directly into the void

I’ve come to realize that there’s a bunch of stories, ideas, accomplishments, and insights that I really haven’t shared. I’m not on any social media, so when I do something interesting or achieve a hard-won victory over inanimate objects, it just sits in my head. There’s no quick app to digest it into small bites to fling into a ad-strewn timeline.

I rationalize the lack of sharing of these moments as either easily self-evident or uninteresting: who in the world would really want to read about rewiring a treadmill with an arduino, Generac valve lash, stupid Kubernetes tricks, NodeJS event loops, or pulling ethernet cable through an insulated wall? In reality, someone somewhere might find it terribly useful. The same way I scour Google looking for videos and forum posts for esoteric topics in software and home ownership.

I’m doing both myself and potentially others a disservice. My looking back on hard-won work as self-deprecatingly obvious isn’t too healthy. Plus, this gives me the opportunity to write a little. I haven’t had an actual blog since 1999 or so, when I was handwriting HTML in vi on Temple’s servers! It’s been a long while since I’ve shared something to a wide audience in a deliberate fashion that wasn’t corporate in nature. It should be fun.

Since I’m moderately disgusted with the Big Money Aggregators of “Web 2.0” and laughing too hard at “Web 3.0” and the blockchain, I’m going back to my roots with just a simple webpage: no distributed CDN, no analytics packages tied to Facebook or Google, no ads, no monetization, no external libraries at all. Web 1.0 at its finest. Posts on a webserver. If anyone reads it I’ll be a bit amazed. And since there’s no analytics I won’t even know unless I get contacted.

Let’s see what happens.