I feel like I’ve typed more ‘Hello, World!’ messages than an average human does in an average human lifespan.
Since we got our first home pc in 1995 every digital diary or blog I’ve ever had has featured it. It was the first message we were taught in middle school, when learning BASIC.
10 PRINT "HELLO, WORLD!" 20 GOTO 10Gave the poor teacher saddled with us a heart attack as we discovered we could do the same continuous loop with dirty words.
I continued on this way, hello worlds AND dirty words, through blogs that changed with the times – Angelfire, Geocities, then to Blogger and LiveJournal and DeadJournal, followed by MySpace and Facebook. Eventually I stopped writing as much – no one seemed to care about writing anymore. It was all about photos and quips. Twitter and Instagram were the hot thing, and I am glad to look back knowing I experienced those apps in their golden eras. For a while, I was very into TikTok, but was cured of that in January 2025 when they sent a sycophantic thank you to POTUS for not cancelling them – an initiative he had started in his previous administration.
That was the final straw. I am no saint – I still watch a lot of YouTube. I still peruse shorts – though even now in 2026 they don’t hold a candle to the dopamine generator that is TikTok. I never find myself scrolling YouTube shorts mindlessly, for hours on end. The algorithm just isn’t that accurate. And I think that’s a good thing.
But I digress. This time – with this blog – I have intentions. This is not a general blog. I wont be documenting my personal life. I’ve been through that phase of life, and after an absurd amount of effort have extracted myself from nearly all social media. You may see me lurking around reddit, and technically I do have a bluesky account, but my god it’s depressing. I don’t like to look at it.
This time I want to really explore the variety of artistic, creative, and technical pursuits I have in the time I have left* on this planet.
This blog, for the first time, is for me. I find myself not caring if anyone ever reads this. I’m not sure I’ll ever even enable comments. Maybe just give readers a series of unrelated emojis to express their praise or frustration with my ramblings.
*It has occurred to me that this sounds like I am dying. I am not dying, just getting older.