This is a Website

In fact, it’s my website. I’ve wanted to do this for a few years now: A single place to keep photos, music, art, stupid thoughts, whatever other scraps and odds and ends I have laying around. I’ve actually started developing some version of a personal website multiple times. A combination of perfectionism and massive feature creep have always prevented me from actually bringing anything to fruition.

This time, I decided to go much simpler. Instead of some huge webapp project, this is a stupid, dead-simple static website developed with Hugo. The result is that I have an actual site, actually deployed to the real internet, and it only took me a few days.

Content

Posting to Instagram, SoundCloud, etc. makes me feel gross; Disgusting. My hopes are that this site will be a more hygienic and organic place to host my content. No likes, no view counts, and no comments. Better still, this almost guarantees that nobody will ever see anything that I upload.

So my current plans are to host two main types of content: photos and music. I’ve already uploaded some of my favorite photos dating back to early 2020 (or at least what’s left of them — many have unfortunately gone missing) with some accompanying context.

I like to record my solo jam sessions on modular synth and guitar. I keep a physical notebook with patch notes, so I can listen to each recording and have some idea of how I actually created the sounds. The idea here is to have one place for the notes and audio files to live together. Both for my own reference, and on the off chance that anyone else wants to listen to my weird ambient drones. I have no immediate plans to formally release any music, but that may change.

Oh, and I guess I’ll make posts like this. Not quite sure what those will be about yet.