i think aloud a lot. especially when i’m working through a tough problem.
i’ve done it for as long as i could remember. while it is immensely helpful in helping me sort things out, most of those thoughts get recirculated into the air, mixed with other people’s lost thoughts somewhere out there.
i’ve maintained a professional blog for a number of years, but i didn’t want to intermix it with random shower thoughts because i wanted to keep it purely technical.
for the longest time, the thoughts i didn’t forget to write down went into reddit. but then it participated in the Great Enshittification of 2023, and that sucked. so i stopped using it about a month before Apollo (RIP) went offline and have used it since. [0]
prior to that, i kept a journal in a private git repo of interestings I’ve encountered, mostly during work. i still use it but often forget to.
prior to that, i kept thoughts in Apple Notes (and, of all places, Facebook
Notes). I still use Notes. it’s a fantastic app. it just fucking works, a
quality that feels increasingly rare. (i’m two Sorry, I'm having trouble understanding right nows from siri before I sell all of my apple stuff, buy a
flip phone and carry a shotgun to shoot printers if they make funny noises.
but i hate how private it is. while i definitely have notes that the internet
doesn’t need to see, many of them are…not that.
so i created this blog. maybe ten years too late, but here it is.
i’ll probably move some of my long-form posts from those other platforms here someday. who knows.
all opinions are my own, etc. etc.
enjoy!
[0] i lied. i still use reddit to search for things from real humans and not increasingly aggressive seo gpt thirst-spam. however, my reddit consumption is 5 minutes/day (at best) when it used to be two hours/day (and that didn’t feel like enough). seriously. quitting reddit was one of the best decisions i ever made.