I’ve had an absolute blast setting up my new website! I even convinced one of my friends to join the party and build his own. He’s over at thegrandline.neocities.org — go check him out!
I don’t fully know what direction I want to take this site yet, but I’m excited for the journey. IRL I’m a low-level web dev for a small institution, managing ~600 pages and ~30-ish end users. After four years in that role I got a bit burned out. This little corner of the small web has lit the spark again — building for fun, not just out of necessity. And honestly, it is a kind of necessity: the need to express myself and carve out a digital space that’s mine.
Social media turns into an echo chamber fast for me — endless feeds, no soul. It’s all so soulless… but this…
Since discovering Neocities, the internet feels alive again. Exploring sites, getting to know people through their code — nostalgia doesn’t even come close to describing it. It’s less longing for the past and more hunger for tomorrow. I’m excited this extension of me exists online, and I can’t wait to meet the folks I’ll cross paths with along the way.
$ echo "hello again, small web"
$ open https://thegrandline.neocities.org/
# see you out there 🌱“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.” — Harold Abelson & Gerald Jay Sussman
Glad to be here, folks.