oh, hi
I am a yapper. I like to write, make videos, yap on twitter and most folks that know me know that even in IRL, if you get me talking about something I’m passionate about, I don’t stop.
I’ve used various blogging platforms in the past, but none of them felt quite right. Medium was kind of the normie place to hang out, and it’s full of slop content now and I don’t feel like paying them for no reason. ghost is amazing… in fact, one of the reasons I felt like leaving it was that it’s too good. too polished. I’ve tried newsletters on Substack and even via Mailchimp and Resend and… honestly I don’t think I’ve got the time or the attention to do a weekly newsletter.
I’ve been wanting to build my own blog for a bit, and re-learning Golang for full-stack dev, adding on HTMX, and setting up my digital playground site was a good reason to try it out.
the blog you’re reading is, at the time of writing, mostly vibe-coded. cursor did a fairly good job of getting the build process figured out. that said, I don’t love all of it, and the best part of building your own blog is the fact that you can actually just change things. so this blog is likely to go through a lot of changes as I tweak things.
currently, I have the build stage of this site taking markdown files and converting them into templated HTML, which is then rendered via routes and handlers. really simple stuff thus far. I have inline images working:
… but I don’t yet have a clean way of doing things like inline code. the process is all kinda hacked together (which I love) so I’ll be iterating on it a lot over time.
why this blog
I’m planning on making this the place that I write about my research, whether it be stuff I find and do with lowki or with scout or with the books I’m reading, the debates I’m having, etc.
I think it’s important to carve out your part of the internet. that’s what I’ve been trying to do with this site, and a blog is a big step in that.
if you’re interested in cyber security, software development, hacking, malware development, entrepreneurship, anarchism and alternative political structures, gardening, music production… this is one of probably few places you can get all that in one spot.