I started blogging on April 10th, 2010 on WordPress.com. I made posts roughly every 2 days until November 11, 2012. They weren’t good. At some point, I was mature enough to realize this and hid them all from public viewing. I’ve built a couple websites that are also gone, they had their own blogs. I used Twitter before a fascist killed it, and use Bluesky now.
This blog was hosted on a DigitalOcean server until a few weeks ago. I was naive enough when they gave me 2 years of free usage to think it would continue being a good deal, and then was too busy to cancel for years. They got their money, I regret it some, but now I’m running on my own hardware.
I have varying quality standards, and keep not posting because I haven’t made anything specifically for this blog. I overcorrect back and forth between caring too much or too little. Recently, I’ve been caring too much, and so I haven’t been sharing things I should’ve shared. I don’t think I’ll fix that problem, but I have an idea on how to reduce it. I’m going to set up a Lemmy instance I set up a forum, so that it’s easier to communicate with me about things I make/share, as well as rate them. Over time, I should have a better idea what goes well, and what are mistakes.
I probably shouldn’t just make an aspirational post without something to show, but I don’t care so much right now, I care that I say I’m not dead, things are getting better for me, and I have plans.
Edited 2025-04-07: Lemmy proved to be too difficult to get working, so I have a simple forum in its place.