April 2026

Doing Things

I'm actually making use of my website. Not a lot of use, but more than I've done with any iteration of it since buying my first domain a couple years ago. Got this mini-blog going, got my Steam backlog project started, and I’m making progress on a couple other things I want to add here. Progress will likely remain slow since that's the way life goes sometimes, but any progress is a nice feeling.

Along with the renewed interest in my website also comes the decision to step away from the Fediverse. I had a lot of fun on Fedi, met a lot of awesome beings (including my girlfriend!), and learned a lot about myself, but I don’t think social media is good for me (or a lot of folks to be honest). The Fediverse might avoid a lot of the downsides of centralized, corpo-run social media, but not all of them. And the federated model brings its own issues that, in my experience, are just as bad.

March 2026

Silly Little Blog

Trying out short-form blogging to see if I can stick with it this time. Doing it a little differently, with posts grouped by month but otherwise undated, in chronological order. Might have to change that if I ever get around to setting up an RSS feed, though.

Also decided to rewrite the code almost entirely, trying to keep it as simple and easy to maintain as possible. I have a tendency to do unnecessary stuff which makes the code annoying enough to deal with to be demotivating. Which is saying something for a site as basic as this one.

Took the KISS approach to the look of the site as well. I did a lot of silly, tacky stuff with CSS when I was still in learning mode, but I much prefer the simple look I've landed on.