You ever think that maybe one day things won't matter as much, but like in a good way?
written: 2025-09-30
There probably isn't much of a point to publishing things on the internet unless you have an audience, either now or later.
I mean I've probably sent my blog to like 2 people ever. And I don't have an RSS feed on this at the time of writing. This website is a structured set of random html files, and maybe one day I'll turn it into a proper blog
But that's kinda the point right? That there isn't one. It's kinda nice that there are no stakes here. And maybe that's the approach people take with most platforms.
There's a pressure to perform when it comes to things like instagram. Even in the blogosphere, I feel like there's this need to make this website as performant + ux-friendly + accessible + fancy [1] + (etc) as possible. Additionally, after reading a few too many submissions to Hacker News and their comments, I think there's a pressure to be Right and Rational in your language. Form and function must both be perfect.
I don't want it to seem as though I'm anti-sophistication; there's a time and place. I think the emphasis here is more on what I do want rather than what I don't want. Who this blog is for and who it's not. What it's for and what it's not.
I do want to use this website as a means to archive things/thoughts that are important to me.
I don't necessarily want this website to be archived by other people, mostly for myself. But eventually, for other people. For others who don't necessarily want to try and decrypt my handwriting, but still want to know what I've been up to.
Stuff like:
None of these things are important or life changing (except for emacs, maybe). But you might have some thoughts on some of these. You might wonder what the hell emacs is. You might have played a game recently that you really enjoyed. You might have advice[2]. More than anything else, I think what I—and maybe you, too—crave more than anything else is to be known, to be seen, to be recognised.
This isn't a tech blog or a self-help blog. I'm not an ex-FAANG engineer or a PhD (though I'd like to be either or both). It's just a blog by some person.
[1]: Functionality like tags and search and archiving and all that nice stuff is pretty useful, and maybe taken for granted. It even adds to the publishing experience (adding these footnotes takes a lot of manual anchor tag management lol). Why don't I use them? I guess I like the handcrafted, boring, monotonous nature of playing in HTML. Maybe there's a limit to that though; adding <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css"> to the top of every page manually can be pretty boring. And so is adding the date I wrote stuff.
[2]If you have life advice, I likely do not want it. It's my view that people rarely want such advice, and it's rarely ever heeded when given anyway because there usually isn't enough pain to drive a change in direction. I might be wrong about this. You might disagree. I'm ok with both.