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07 Apr 2026 - J4YC33
Apparently, to have an excerpt, I cannot start the post with a markdown title. That is good to know.
This is a website
On making websites and why I do it.
This is my bajillionth website. I used to make them as a freelance job, and then I have made several dozen personal sites over the years. All of them were attempts at doing something the way other people did things. They were personal websites with the same layouts, features, and pressure to keep it updated that everyone else had.
Fuck that.
I do not want to feel pressured to keep my site up-to-date. I do not want to feel like I have to keep a regular blog. So this time, I have made a website of things I have done. Not things I intend to do, not series I want to write. Things I have already accomplished or completed are on this site. There are always things I want to do. I want to join the SCA and do medieval things again (I used to LARP a lot, and I miss the hell out of it…). I have Star Trek and Battletech things I want to write about. I have a whole article on Potatoes I want to put out there. I want to crochet more. Hell, I have not even made a page for the things I have already crocheted.
Note: all of those things are things I want to do. Not things I plan to put up here. These are glib statements of examples, not plans for my future pages. I might make 700 gifs about toast before I get to any of those things. I might never get to them. Who knows?
To-do lists on websites create a pressure I just do not want to deal with. So, here it is. A site of things I have done. Not empty intentions that will never happen. Not hopes and dreams and wishes. Actual shit I have done.
The only To-Do is to update the things here when it is relevant.
On why you should make one too
There is one other thing to discuss here: The dying internet. The internet was designed to be a place for people. Not for bots. Not for AI Slop to ruin humanity. It was a place to share data, information, knowledge, and wisdom with each other in semi-social ways. It was never supposed to replace going outside and touching grass, but to give us space to express, learn, and share.
Clearly, that shit failed. Capital interests took the internet and started monetizing every, last, single bit of it. Technologies built to track people, advertise to them, and make them spend more and more money they do not have on more and more things they do not need.
It. Needs. To. Stop.
We need more human-made content. We need people who absolutely love bugs to post more things about bugs. We need indie authors to use the internet as it has the potential to be used and publish their own books. We need people obsessed with Gifs, sci-fi, the history of textile arts, or whatever else to make bespoke websites full of information and bad design. We need the internet to stop being about making as much money as possible being performative, and start being about the human beings on this fucking planet.
We are not numbers, we are free people.
Be a people.
Make a website.
