Primarily as an interim measure as I adapt my site to using slashpages, this page largely repeats things you can find written about at greater length and in a way less exhausted state elsewhere on the site’s About menu.

This site runs at home.

This is served by WordPress running on a Debian 12 VM running in VMware on a 2012 Mac mini in my living room (then routed for protection through some things I won’t name and then, out on the internet, some reverse proxies and CDNs and caches and other stuff. But you know that because you already ran a traceroute. I saw you coming.)

The theme is an extremely customized version of an obsolete, apparently abandoned wordpress theme called Sinatra that looked good when I started but I have since discovered was written really inefficiently. I’ve changed huge chunks of it to make it do my bidding and stop grinding my browser’s rendering engine to a halt. Folks: it’s not hard. When you’re building a them, don’t have jQuery $(“body.is_single a”) selectors and a million CSS ancestor selectors that all run on every single anchor tag on the site. Use classnames. C’mon.

This site lived in my head for many yearsas a hypothetical home for the creative endeavors I had scattered throughout a million different electronic venues, completely mentally designed in a very similar form to what you see here, before a long illness knocked me out of commission for a few months around summer of 2023, giving me plenty of time with nothing to do, and no more energy than it took to lay on the couch and type for four months. The first pages went live in August of 2023. Much of the content predates that by decades, as I have recycled old content from my old other sites, blog, etc.

In September of 2024 I stumbled upon the existence of Indieweb, began attending online user groups, and found a lot of likeminded people and inspiration in their ethos. I have since added Indieweb’s yourself microformat tagging and am slowly adopting other conventions of that community, these slashpages being among them.

Like most personal websites, this site is intended to serve as the monument to myself that the world has, to my endless irritation, never shown an inclination to build me.