Well hello there. As you can see, I made some changes to my blog.

Why? Because my old blog was boring and I'm tired of boring.

But there is more. Let me take you back to the beginning.

The beginning

I love making stuff. I can't stop. It's like I'm addicted. I have fifty thousand unfinished projects. And by tomorrow I'll have a dozen more. And I am completely fine with this. Life is going well. Well enough that my unfinished projects are no source of concern.

But I do dislike having to write the same boilerplate over and over again.

And so I started thinking, what if I had a central, extensible place that I could use to quickly spin up projects. Without having to worry about provisioning infrastructure and whatnot. And what if I could actually refer to different projects. How cool would that be.

I want to store and share recipes, my way. I want to store and share bookmarks, my way. I want to store and share images, my way.

Another project

And so I started coding, another project. Of course. And that's what you're looking at right now. It's powered by Django. It's super extensible. Maybe I'll trash it in a year. Maybe I won't.

Fun

As I was coding this mess, I had Claude write the most bullshit looking UI ever. If KPMG and the boys at McKenzie took acid, abducted Jonny Ive, fed him acid, and then gave him 15 minutes in Figma, they would've made something similar. It was slick. It looked great. It could not offend. No matter how you looked at it.

It was many things. But it was not fun.

And that's fucking boring. But now my site looks like fun. It tries to recreate the look and Windows 98. It's not perfect. But it doesn't have to be. Because it's fun.

It has a start bar. How cool is that. I love it. A little start bar. There's even a clock. Even though whatever medium you're reading this on probably has a clock. It's optimized too. Updates only on the minute. We want to have fun. But we're also serious.

Your mission

Should you choose to accept it, is to have fun. Make fun stuff. Look at something, and ask if it makes you happy. If it brings you joy. If it makes you want to work on it. If it does not, make changes until it does. If it does, keep it that way. Or throw it away.

YOLO, innit.