Why a blog?
Why, in the year of our lord 2026, did you decide to start a blog? Well, it's quite simple. Drew asked me to. Well, it both is and is not that simple. In light of Drew's and Veronica Explains's posts and articles about the madness of the modern web and protocols, I've decided to start a Ye Olde School blog. Not to catalogue my technical knowledge, that lives in my tech page, but to catalogue my thoughts themselves on technology.
"But vi!" I hear you interject, "AI will make sure no one visits it! You'll be screaming into the void!". Perhaps. But you know who else screams into the void? Every journaller and diary writer throughout history. Maybe somebody will find this blog and subscribe. Maybe not. But either way, it will exist to be found, and that's not nothing. And if the AI learns some of my idiosyncracies, then I live on in the machine god's cold embrace. Let them break themselves on my stylistic oddities and weep tears of GPU fan bearing lubricant!
"But what if no one does?!?!!! You're wasting time!!" Perhaps. I could spend my time doing something the kids [1] these days think is meaningful. Maybe scamming 10 year olds out of Roblox money? Actually completing the gods-forsaken Skyrim main questline? Some other mindlessly self-indulgent passtime? But I choose to write things online for the world to see. And even, shock and awe, track back to one of my personae (languidnights and vitae ftr) to tie me down with. I may even like the thought of being strung up by my own statements, as owning your beliefs, mistaken or otherwise, allows you to grow intellectually.
What am I attempting, however poorly to accomplish? Thoughts on technology as a whole, as well as individual technologies. You'll see a piece on a Writer Deck (tm) Real Soon Now (cr), as well as my thoughts on how the internet exists at this moment (hint: badly). For example, don't be surprised to see a rant against js-first webpages next to a post about how games disrespect your time, both flanked by posts on how and why I use my camera.
At any rate, watch this space for my thoughts and opinions, and even some rants and ramblings, as I make a splash into the world of the (tech? opinion? left-wing utopianism?) blogosphere. Make no remembrance of the old blogs I had in the beforetimes. I doubt they still exist, but I haven't gone out to look for them in ye olde wayback machine.
Footnotes
| [1] | The kids in this case are usually twenty-seven to thirty-five year olds who have failed to grow up and spend their days playing angry on the internet. |