Should have seen this coming

Scheming to scheme

You did what now

So... the entire point behind my pile of m4 scripts and Makefiles was to make it easier to write blog posts. But to maintain the different indexes and RSS (why do I have an RSS feed?), it took enough effort that I just wasn't doing it. I don't expect to update daily. I do expect to find something worth writing about at least monthly... Currently, we're looking at a post every 3 months. Not great, not terrible. So, quick port to Haunt. Is it perfect? No. Should you use it? If you have to ask, probably not. This isn't a brag or a dig; you'll know if this is what you've been looking for.

Haunt is very hackable, which is really nice. It lets me turn comfy text documents into... well, this. This site is structured oddly: each project is basically a mini blog. I'm able to create stylistic macros that make party tricks stupid easy to pull off. I think I was able to completely recreate exactly what I had before, and nobody would notice. Except I brought it up.

If I migrate again. I promise I won't talk about it. Nobody likes blog posts about blogging technology. It is just strange filler for not having anything to talk about.

Reticulum on NixOS

Have you ever wanted to host Reticulum? Have you wanted to avoid containers? Dedicated VMs? I have the post for you!

Where is Project 0x04? We aren't talking about Project 0x04 :|

Running Project Import

Now that I have a place to brag and point to, importing some of my current projects.

Hello World

New Blog. A place to catalog ideas and projects to share with others.

Why Even Do This?

Over the years I've used a few note taking apps (Notes / Quiver / LogSeq / Emacs Org-Mode) that end up with my notes just being lists of bullet points that I never go back to read, let alone share with another person. I need to flex my writing muscles, I need to be able to form a coherent thought and communicate it clearly. Now, ideally someone finds this interesting and decides to go learn about a topic they care about and then share that with others. Ideally they figure out how to do that without depending on rent-seeking services that don't have the user's best interest in mind.

The Setup

Here's what we're working with:

• Hand typed html
• Static site, managed manually with m4 and make, manually
• No external resources, tracking, analytics, ads or referral links
• No javascript

This may sound archaic and that's the point. Open up your favorite text editor, write text littered with a tiny bit of html markup and move on. Stop stacking needless layers of abstraction. Stop using the process (npm / typescript / hugo / etc..) to avoid doing the work of writing. Find some creativity, make some art. Failing that, make something novel.