This website was born out of a bit of nostalgia. (Although it's really more of an evolution of a blogging project that I've had for a while now.)

The Internet was a very different place when I was young, more like a wild west. Now, of course, it's a lot more corpo-slop... everything is advertising and monetizing and SEO algorithms, AI-driven workflows and—who gives a shit, right? We end of forgetting how much cool stuff, how many cool people are out there that we're missing. And all because it doesn't show up in our algorithms!

In 2025, one of the prominent themes in my life was intention. With the way the world is going, I want to make more choices in line with my values. I'm not Gandhi, but I want to be more of that change I wish to see in the world. Hence, now I have a painfully-coded website with all the charm of a 2000's e-zine.

I say painfully-coded because the docs and tutorials for 11ty (the static site generator I used) are hot garbage. There's so many languages and nuances that you can expect to bash you head against a wall at least a dozen times before you get the dates to work properly. And while we have AI to help (sometimes quite poorly) if we really cooked it and have no more ideas, bAcK iN tHe OlD dAyS people really did have no choice but to agonize for hours over these problems. I did on occasion. But there's a value in it, I think, and that's something we've lost, even those of us who are sick of our technofeudal trappings.

Which brings me to this place: my own little carve-out on the WWW.

I love to write.

I love working with and experimenting with technology.

I love thinking about things, especially politics and culture.

I swear, I'm not pretentious (usually)! I don't come to the table with any particular plan in mind. I am simply a philosopher at heart. I didn't even choose my own moniker: it was bestowed upon me. And if you ask me, philosophy is ultimately about us: how do we live with wisdom, come to know things, and what difference does it make? It's like a sweeping study of life itself. It's about human nature, or at least human understanding and its limits.

And then there's technology, which you'd think was unrelated, but I would argue that most people don't think too critically about tech. It's seen as something with utility, not as something that actively shapes and is shaped by us. That's even more true now than before, I'd think. It's all too obvious how technology is something of a slave to our (unfortunate) political economy.

However, my particular interest in it was never so, dare I say, banal. Technology is like a gun: no matter how small you might be, if you have one, you'll sure as shit scare the pants off the bigger guy threatening you. That is, it can be quite the empowering tool. As a matter of fact, just the other day I was telling a friend that these Roman Empire LARPers—moaning about the destruction of the Library of Alexandria well over a millennia ago—don't seem to appreciate that even such a mythic library pales in comparison with what we have for free with Wikipedia.

Not only that, but we're not dependant upon the mortality of carrier pigeons, nor do we need pray for calmer seas, just to send a "hello" to the other side of the world. We can do that instantly. Depending on where you are, perhaps that's already happened!

We have cryptographic tools that would make Enigma blush! We can automate tasks that we find boring, or perhaps find new ways of doing the tasks that we enjoy. It almost doesn't matter what they are. There are just so many things you can do with a computer that, if we were to take for granted what Marshall McLuhan said about media acting as an "extension" of people, what we would have now is something akin to a several dozen autonomous Swiss army knives—the chunky kind, replete with attachments.

For this reason, I've always believed that technology should foster openness and goodwill. Probably unlike anything that has come before it, the computer—in particular, open-source, personal computing—affords us an ability to shed barriers to knowledge, resources, and human solidarity—or erect new ones.

So, I suppose if I were to tell you what this is all about—TL;DR—it would be this:

I'm here to offer the world my perspective, and I hope to help make the world a better place in the process.

Aside from the food for though I post, you can check out some of my rough-er notes on a Quartz instance (My Dark Materials). You can peruse and clone my public git projects (at least when I find a good way of displaying them to the user). You can see what resources I link to, and hell, maybe any combination of those things will inspire you in some endeavour.