Hellooo, I don’t entirely know what this space is but I guess if you’re reading this we are on this journey together. This little project is kind of a bit of everything wrapped in one so who knows how long this will last, maybe this entry is kind of just a longer ramble of what’s currently on the main page (here’s hoping that’s a dated reference sooner rather than later).
I’ve started this for two reasons, the first is every 6-12 months I learn a small amount of coding for a month and then walk away, I’m hoping by creating a tangible space that isn’t a random project that will be deleted by the time I hit submit will help keep me in the practice. With that in mind, maybe I should start with why I want to be half decent at coding.
With the tech feudal overlords tightening the space that is the world wide web it feels more and more important to put an effort in to make my own space. I, like many on this site seem to, yearn for an online world that isn’t purely about shoveling slop to keep us online. I don’t want to endlessly scroll because an algorithm knows I’ll have a reaction to a particular post. I miss the genuine connectivity that the internet used to bring and miss when the internet wasn’t 4 places to socialise and like 50,000 stores that all look the same.
I really enjoy the process of learning to make things, as I recently saw someone discussing on a reel, (ironic I know) art didn’t used to be something purely for professionals, it was a practice to help the individual explore themselves. To practice and hone a skill, or to try many things ultimately leads to the same end goal, that individual going on a journey of self exploration.
As someone with long covid, unable to exert myself in most ways, the physical world is slipping through my fingers. The world is becoming less and less available to me and so I feel a need to engage better in the online spaces and what better way than with an oldskool y2k vibe.
This project is also a practice of ‘embracing cringe’ although I think a nicer phrase is needed. I’m someone who has been mildly chronically online most of my life and yet the fear of cringe has meant that I would describe myself more as a lurker in online spacers than a participator. I guess this project is also an attempt to change that and genuinely engage in a space I’ve spent most of my life.
Lastly just to explain the horrible joke of a title, I’m writing this on the 1st of Tishrei 5786, also known as Rosh Hashana (or Jewish new year for goy’s). This is always a weird time for me, particularly what does a Jewish new year mean when the Jewish country is committing genocide. However seems fitting and a great opportunity to make a pun/joke to be engaging a new project at the start of the new (Jewish) year.
There’s plenty more I could ramble about, and I’m sure will come through eventually but for now as I write this between an energy crash and making dinner, I think I’ll call it (and not proof read so apologies if this doesn’t make sense to anyone else).