New website, new "commitment"

I nuked my old website last night (15 May 2026). You can find it on the Wayback Machine if you're that curious, but I don't think much of value has been lost.

I went into it with good intentions. I was going to update it monthly with:

• random and sometimes funny observations I'd made
• stories I'd written, both old and new
• my opinions on how Facebook is a dumpster fire, etc.

I also started running. I was doing a whole "commit to things that you perceive as good for you".

The problem was I busted my knee so I had to stop running.

Then my mum got brain cancer and died.

I had to put a lot of things not called employment on hold to care for her, then deal with her estate. That's still ongoing somewhat, but I'm at a point now where I can start trying things again.

Not running though. I've got a sore foot right now so I need that to heal.

So that's where I'm at with this website. I'm going to try to do things a little different, focussing more on things that interest me than things which piss me off. I imagine it'll get a lot less traffic, but I don't care about that. I'm done screaming into the void - instead, I'll just look at doing something that is maybe considered part of the Small Web.

I may do a post about how I've put this all together at some point in the future, and I want to write about my switch from Apple's ecosystem to Linux and GrapheneOS. I also have things I've written over the years, mostly short stories, which I'll share along with some context of why I wrote them.

Professionally, I don't want to write much about where I work, but there are some professional topics I'd like to touch on. Hardly original topics, but maybe my thoughts on switching from Learning Design to Content Design may interest someone considering the same move, and I might do a little bit of void screaming over the complete and utter stupidity that is replacing jobs with AI (from a Content Designer's perspective).

On top of that, I plan to write a bit more about what I'm playing, reading and watching. Maybe. When I was younger I fancied myself a critic, until I realised that I actually find it quite boring and thankless.

So what's the new "commitment"? That I won't commit to anything.

Maybe I publish this post and don't do another one again. Or maybe I write here every week. But I'm taking that pressure off myself and just letting what happens happen with this blog. I don't have a reason to do it other than I want to, and life's too short to tie myself down with anything I don't want to do.

So thank you for visiting, even if we're a year later from this post and it is still the only one on the site.