I’ve been meaning to update my personal site for a long time. I’ve been reading, with interest, about the swing of the pendulum back towards the “indie web”, microblogging, federation through the ATProto and doubtless other things I don’t yet fully understand.

I came across the article One Website to Destroy All Websites, and it inspired me to dig this old site up and dust it off a bit.

I am not a big one for “new years resolutions”, but I felt that this year I wanted to make a change and start contributing in my own little way to the indie web. This is the web that I grew up with and brought me so much joy over the years. It’s disgusting to me what Facebook and Instagram, TikTok and co have done to the internet, and how they have lulled many into a false sense of being part of some “creator economy” but really just lining the coffers of these increasingly adversarial billion dollar businesses.

I’m writing this in my terminal, logged into a box which is now also my ATProto PDS (another cool idea), and getting back into the idea of owning my own content again. It feels nice.

What was also nice, was the fact that this is a Hugo website (a single executable), which is managed by SSHing into a server (SHOCK HORROR) and writing up my thoughts. It’s distraction free, I honestly don’t care if anyone reads the site, and I am not hoping for any likes, retweets or any of that other shit.

Happy new year everyone. I hope 2026 brings you something new, and we can find a way to get along a bit more.

Maybe you’ll hear from me again soon.