Aug 27, 2024

After a decade of being an interweb bystander, I’m back in the ring.

  • Personal
  • Social Media

Back in 1996, when I first learned HTML in my middle school computer lab, I decided then and there to use my newfound powers for good. So I built a website to crucially inform the world how much I loved the Legend of Zelda video game series. As the web and I both came of age over the next two decades, I built countless personal sites and blogs with various goals and singularly disastrous results (But I still love Zelda).

My most recent blog died on the vine circa 2011 and my social media activity dwindled over the next few years to the point that I haven’t been posting online in any capacity for a decade. I tossed up a very simple (and hardly evergreen) landing page that’s just been sitting here for years. On a six-letter .com domain, no less. Six letters! How have I not been doing anything with that? Dumb, stupid Caleb.

I still check Twitter and Mastodon daily, subscribe to dozens of blogs and podcasts, and actively follow countless folks’ activity across the web. In spite of that, I’ve stayed mostly silent. I felt like I didn’t have anything useful to add to the larger conversation, and I didn’t have a central place to post and tinker on my own terms.

So I made a place. Here it is. Do you see it? You see it, right?

This blog is going to be primarily focused on web development, because that’s the conversation that I feel like I have the most to which I can contribute. I’m sure I will ultimately find a space for personal thoughts as well; I might even dig up my old blog and put up an archive. Get ready for some angst.

I have a giant list of ideas, enhancements and weird experiments that I’d like to add, but for now I'm just excited to have a site that I'm proud of out in the wild, and a sandbox for me to play in.

So, thanks for stopping by. Don’t be a stranger! 👋