Welcome to my online workbench. Like my real one, it’s cluttered and chaotic and never quite organized the way it should be. Fourth time’s the charm, right? I’ve done this before, twice on Blogger, once here already. They all started as “tech blogs” and ended up being places where I just wrote whatever was rattling around in my head. This isn’t a clean, focused blog about electronics or 3D printing or amateur radio. It’s never just for one thing. Sometimes I’m here working through a project, documenting what broke and how I fixed it. Sometimes I’m writing about life stuff that doesn’t have anywhere else to go. Most of the time it’s both mixed together because that’s how my brain works. Some posts will actually be helpful, troubleshooting guides, tips that work, project notes worth keeping. Others will be me at 2am trying to work through something that’s been bugging me for days. You’ll get the technical failures along with the personal ones. The boring maintenance stuff along with the “holy shit this actually worked” moments. No brand here. No neat categories. Just me figuring things out in public, one messy post at a time. This place will keep evolving, get messier, hopefully get better. But it stays mine. If something here helps you out, brilliant. If you just like hanging out in someone else’s chaos for a bit, welcome. Make yourself at home.
Another week gone by, and I’m sat here trying to work out what actually happened versus what feels like it happened. Spoiler alert: physics was involved in both versions.
This week brought a school trip that served as a rather dramatic reminder of why I have such nice, safe indoor hobbies. Someone in their infinite wisdom decided it would be character-building to start us off on one of those treetop obstacle courses. I’m not exaggerating when I say it was the scariest thing I’ve ever done. Picture this: me, twenty feet up in the canopy, quite literally shaking in my boots while white-knuckling safety lines and questioning every life choice that led to being suspended on wobbly planks between trees. Every few minutes I’d be reminded exactly why I prefer my feet firmly planted on solid ground, ideally indoors, preferably near a nice warm computer that doesn’t sway in the wind.
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So here we are – my first “proper” post on this little corner of the internet. I say proper because I already threw up that story I wrote, but this feels more like an actual introduction to whatever this blog is going to become.
I’m currently working on automating the whole publishing process so I don’t have to make two separate remote connections to the server every time I want to push changes. It’s one of those small inefficiencies that drives you mad when you’re trying to maintain any kind of writing momentum. For now, I’ll be pushing updates manually a few times a week, usually around 12pm whenever I remember to do it. And with that schedule comes absolutely no promise of a new post each time – sometimes it’ll just be me tinkering with the backend or fixing typos I missed.
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I’m not sure what this thing will turn into. Maybe that’s fine.
This is the fourth time I’ve done this. Different names, different sites, different looks. Probably because what I need from it keeps changing. Sometimes it was just for keeping track of project notes. Sometimes it was where I dumped thoughts that didn’t have anywhere else to go. Now it’s something else, I guess.
There’s stuff rattling around in my head that doesn’t work as a text message or a quick photo or something you’d bring up over coffee. Some of it’s quick, those ideas that disappear if you don’t grab them right away. Other stuff sticks around, going in circles until I finally write it down somewhere. That somewhere is here now.
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