It’s been a minute two and a half years. I left the truck and apparently I left the blog behind with it. Whoops! But the good news is that we’re fixing that right now.

Oh hey, thanks for asking. Not much has changed on my end, same old, same old: got married, my nonprofit excelled at not-profiting, did some start-up stuff, got some very cute animals, and eventually ended up back at A Big Tech Company. My “role of work” chart has aged well in that particular regard.

Also new: this blog! I originally wrote the software for this website as a bright-eyed new grad who didn’t know any better than to over-engineer the ever-loving shit out of it. Anyway, I threw all that away and this is now just a simple static website being served out of my basement.

And like any blogger worth their salt, I procrastinated actually writing anything by working on the site itself. So you may not have gotten any juicy content, but now you’re getting optimized images, nice lightboxes, improved search, better footnotes, and maybe even more functional RSS. For free! You’re welcome.

One thing I’ve grappled with over the past couple years is what to do with this blog. It’s mostly been about living in a truck, which I don’t do anymore. At the same time, I spend the vast majority of my free time building silly projects and I want to write about them, both because they’re fun and I enjoy writing. And also it’s useful to have something resembling a portfolio to stand out in a sea of AI-generated projects + job applications, for if I ever need to do that process again.

But putting that stuff here feels wrong. I imagine that most folks who found me during my 15 minutes of fame aren’t interested in nitty gritty technical computer stuff. And on the flip side, potential employers don’t need to see my detailed accounts of how I lived without a bathroom for six years.

My solution: two blogs ^{at the same damn time}

The one you’re reading now will be about my life, financial stuff, random musings, trying to live simply, the odd home improvement project, etc, etc — basically the stuff I’ve always written about.

And my new blog will almost exclusively be about computers, and the terrible things I’ve made them do.

One consequence of the new site is that I had to convert all ~hundred and sixty of my posts from HTML → Markdown, and some stuff might have gotten messed up in the process. I’ve looked through all of them and fixed up things I noticed, but there might still be broken links, weirdly formatted stuff, and other incongrueties. Shoot me an email if you notice anything too broken.