An abridged list of thoughts

Articles about the Internet in general

• On Colors - I write a little something about using color names vs using hex codes on this site
• Build A Website - You should build a website. It's not that hard, and it makes the Web a better place.
• On Becoming Internet Famous - I failed (repeatedly) at becoming Internet Famous. I've grown to accept it, and I go over some reasons why.
• On respecting your visitors' computing resources - I lay out some reasons (and a bad analogy) why websites are obligated to be as well-written and as efficient as possible
• On RSS Feeds - When I started working on this site, I didn't bother putting an RSS feed on it. Eventually, I bothered, and I lay out a few reasons why.
• Own Your Platform - Most people rely on someone else providing them with a platform to express themselves online. I'm tired of being 'most people'.

I have opinions about things.

• This is not a resume - This website isn't here so that I can show potential employers how awesome I am. They don't even know about it.
• You Shouldn't Trust Me - I make the case that you shouldn't trust every website on the Internet by default.
• Debating Windows vs. Linux is a waste of time - Written when Linux turned 28 and the Same Old Arguments™ surfaced again. I go through a bunch of them and try to explain where they've come from.
• What do you want to use your computer for? - It's always the year of the Linux desktop. It's never the year of the Linux desktop. It all depends on what you want to use your computer for.
• Ease of Use - While boning up on my FreeBSD knowledge, I stumbled across a YouTube comment that reinforced what I already knew: once people are done with school, they don't feel like they should have to learn anything ever again.

I talk about video games and video-game-adjacent things

• On Speedruns - I talk a little bit about watching video game speedruns.
• On Being a Video Game Expert - It's impossible to become an expert at 'video games' now. I go over why I think that is, and what I think about that.
• Putting off starting a new game - I sometimes have trouble actually starting a new game. I explore why I think that is.
• Collecting Video Games isn't as fun as it used to be - Collecting video games now is a lot different than it was even ten years ago. It's not as fun in some ways, but is that a bad thing?

I talk about this very website

• On HTML Redirects - I started making an index.html page with a meta refresh mostly for text-based web browsers, but the results were less than ideal.
• Why this site doesn't have images - This site doesn't have any images on it. Was is a conscious decision or something else?
• Challenges when building a site using XML and XSLT. - I used XML and XSLT to build this site. It's been tough in ways that I expected, and a few ways that I didn't
• Free for life! - It's currently free to access anything on this site. That includes not having any ads. I intend to keep that way.

Some informal postings that don't really fit anywhere else. Don't call it a blog, blogs are so 1999

• On blogs - Almost every website now is a blog (except this one), I lay out some of the differences and make an argument that traditional websites are better in some ways
• You Can't Do Everything - A lengthier-than-I-intended discussion to remind myself that I can only do so many things in a day, that I'm allowed to cut back if I want to
• Programming computers is way harder than it needs to be - I get on my high horse for a while and argue that it should be a lot easier to program a computer than it currently is
• Blogs are a bad choice for non-ephemeral content - I use way too many words to try to convince you that cramming every kind of website into the blog format is a bad idea for a lot of reasons.
• On Being a Creator. - Even though I never really found much success, I have the urge to create things all the time. Sometimes that means that other projects don't get attention for a while. I delve into my thoughts on being a successful creator (or not) and if success matters
• On Nostalgia - Nostalgia is weird, but living in the world of your own nostalgia is even wierder. I go over why I think that 80's and 90's nostalgia seems to run rampant in the various online gaming communities
• My preference is not my team - My preferences are my preferences. They're not my identity and I don't evangelize them.
• Recommending Software - I don't make blanket recommendations for computer software, but I had to watch an interview with Theo de Raadt to understand why.
• Communities - I get nostalgic for real communities on the Internet and I take a detour to talk about how social media is a poor substitute
• Model M Keyboards - I used to exclusively use Model M keyboards. I switched away from them a while ago, but is it time to switch back now that Unicomp has a new model? Let's find out!
• Walking out of a walled garden to see what lies beyond - I don't usually like to drop pop culture references into articles I'm writing, and I don't make New Year's Resolutions, but I sort of did both of those things anyway.
• The Keyboard Chronicles: Episode ζ - I talked myself out of buying a big bulky keyboard and ended up buying and even bigger and bulkier keyboard.
• Free Software Goings On (And On) - In the Spring of 2021 there was a rift in the Free Software community, but I think it's less about the person and more about what the person represents.
• Streaming 201 - I sometimes pretend that I'm a streamer, but I do it on my own terms. To hear other people describe how I approach my hobby, I'm a failure. I have several issues with that.

An intermittently-updated series of articles where I describe the things I'm doing to take back control of my Intenet usage

• Getting my time back on the Intenet. Part 1: comments sections, engangement, and karma - In the first entry of the 'getting my time back' series, I break down why comment sections and awarding karma points to participants only exist to drive engagement, and why I'm (mostly) disengaging from them.
• Getting my time back on the Intenet. Part 2: Does your website have a soul? - A big part of getting my time back on the Internet involves limiting the amount of time I spend looking at websites that don't have a soul. Also I feebly try to define what a website's 'soul' might actually be.
• Getting my time back on the Intenet. Part 3: Using a Pi-Hole to block more than just ads? - I realized a long time ago that I procrastinate too much. I realized recently that I can use a Pi-Hole to help reduce or eliminate the things I do to procrastinate.

Build a Website

You should have your own domain, your own website, and your own email address that isn't owned by Google or Microsoft. I go over some suggestions about how to do some of that.