Shall I start again?
Here is where I should stake my posts.
It's been a long time since I blogged on a regular basis, or any kind of basis. Feels like I've lost the touch for writing in any depth or length, and constrained by apathy or dearth of interest, or unwilling to find myself expanding on technical topics in any great detail, resigned myself to errant shitposting on Twitter.
But I don't think that should last.
For starters, it looks like I'm no longer on Twitter. Thank God almighty, I'm free at last. Seems my irascibility got the better of me (read: I was being hella stupid and loud) and found myself suspended over some beef with a bésuited political mascot who will not be named due to their similarity to other trademarks. It's my own idiot fault, and I don't expect to be reinstated, but there are some things I will miss, like the many small nice moments, the pet photos, and the frisson of Posting. (With a capital P. You could feel like there was an art to it at times, despite all of it being daft as heck.) I had my twelve years, and not all of it was bad.
I won't miss being stuck inside Jack Dorsey's Content Mines though. Dorsey is a blasé ignoramus who still has no idea what he's built or what he's guilty of. But that's another story, and telling it would make you feel like I've got some kind of grudge. (I don't know what would make you think there is one.)
Furthermore, I've been trying to get up off my backside and start repopulating my personal site again. I miss having my own little space to maintain, like a garden made of UTF-8 sigils and other assorted junk. I don't think it'll quite be what it used to be, but I'm hoping that it can serve as the base for a couple of nice little experiments and ideas. I even wrote my own static site generator for it! How horrifically dorky is that?
I'm hoping to take back my little corner of the web, try and rediscover the best of what we have lost, and fumble my way forward into the future. The web had promise and we sold it for convenience, but I believe that there's still limitless potential, and that while we draw breath we can still explore it.
Hi, I'm Geoffrey and this is my place.
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