After reminiscing about how great “the old internet” used to be, before it was as blatantly trying to steal my identity and hide relevant search results behind a full page of ads, I decided to be the change I want to see in the world and bring back blogs. Do I even have long-form thoughts anymore or has the internet of the 2020s thoroughly eroded my attention span? I guess we’ll see! By we I mean James, as the only person who I think will read this, but maybe that’s for the best.
I want to note that logging back into this blog after 6 years meant updating a bunch of stuff on the back end and discovering that my 90s html skills are apparently no longer relevant for writing posts, but there are a bunch of new gross tools trying to get me to use AI at every turn. Truly nowhere is safe from this dystopia. For instance, there’s a new score at the top, changing as I type, rating me on the SEO of this post, and encouraging me to click to get AI to “improve” it. My goal is to get that score to 0–find me if you can! I’m not trying to sell you anything, so I’m happy to be relegated to the depths of google search where no one, not even bots, ventures anymore.
Welcome back to the old internet; I’m keeping the flame alive.