The Old Web · 10 min read
2024-05-30

Last week (it's the end of May 2024 right now), I discovered some fan-made recreations of AOL Instant Messenger, MSN Messenger/Windows Live Messenger, ICQ, Yahoo Messenger, Classic AOL, and Quantum Link. All of those applications and "services" are being lovingly re-built, mostly from scratch, by a community of absolute chads under the umbrella(s) of Escargot and NINA. Why are they doing this, though? ...

POSSE · 16 min read
2024-01-30

I'm slowly working at integrating the POSSE mindset into my website. What is POSSE, though? At its core, it's an acronym for "Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere," and digging a bit deeper it means to establish the practice of posting content on your own site first, then publishing copies or sharing links to third parties, such as traditional social media sites, with Original Post Links to give viewers a path to directly interacting with your content. What's the purpose...

Phasmo · 7 min read
2024-01-26

I've been playing a fair bit of Phasmophobia lately... Ghosts and spooky stuff seems to be just part of my life now, ever since I started working at a haunted house about 8 years ago. If you're not in the know, Phasmophobia is a game about "hunting" ghosts, and...

Hello, World! · 6 min read
2024-01-24

I rebuilt my site, partially, using Eleventy, Tailwind, and Daisy! ...