I asked the beasts of the Fediverse “Hey Fedifolk, should I do a blog,” and they all said “Yes Dan of course you should.” Granted, some of those people were saying that so that my posts would go outta their timeline and onto a different website where they didn't have to see it, but even so, democracy won, here's a blog, I hope you're satisfied.

As an apparently blogger, in the year 2025 when we have social media and Fedi and all these other easy shared ways of shouting into a bag it seems honestly arrogant to make a blog.

A whole website? Just for you? Don't want to share a domain name with anyone? Special boy? Your opinions are clearly very important?

Well, here we are. I try to bring an energy of humility to my Fedi posts, but honestly that's just because I'm typing on my phone. Not gonna blog on my phone, of course not, that's a desktop activity like booking plane tickets, my precious opinions are desktop computer levels of significant. I've got a split ortholinear Dvorak keyboard here, it's got loud clicky switches so you're gonna get loud clicky posts, torrents of shit pouring out the ends of my sleeves and through a wire over to a dedicated server in Germany because apparently I'm just that pleased with myself.

Welcome to my bloghole. I promise I'll… try to resist the urge to make it like a lot of other fortysomethingwhitecomputerguy blogs I've been looking at lately, because they all follow a template that's very easy to fall into, where you fiddle with a blog more than you post in it:

• Welcome to my blog
• Why I think I need to blog
• A new look for my blog
• Why 2012 is finally the year of the Linux Desktop
• I changed blogging systems
• More posts coming soon
• Adventures in kayaking
• Changing blog systems again: Why I made a custom blog engine
• Now I can post from mobile
• Happy 2018
• This blog is now hosted on a Raspberry Pi!
• 3D printing parts to make my 3D printer work better
• Long time, no see!
• Making a table saw fence on my new table saw
• My new year's resolution: blog more!
• Adventures in Home Assistant
• About my divorce (it was because of Home Assistant)
• A fresh start for my blog: my own custom blog engine Version IV
• Integrating my blog with Home Assistant

This is a big part of why this is a blog made out of a wiki (so it can go SIDEWAYS as well as forwards) and also why you're not reading this until waaaaay after I write it and write some other stuff as well that isn't about FortySomethingWhiteTechGuy shit.

'cause I've gotta see if I actually want to make a blog/website, right? Not just install one and make it pretty? Actually put things in it? Things that might be worth putting in it? And that's the sort of question that I can only answer after I've done it or failed to do it, y'know.

In the meantime this is a secret blog just for me, heeheee