What’s new!

I am back, and I’ve made a large number of changes and updates to the blog. I wanted to quickly go over the changes and what you can expect to see in terms of content on this site moving forward. First and foremost, you will notice that we have a new look. The old style was fine, it was very simple, and I wanted to keep the same vibe, but have it be a bit more pleasing to the eye. Secondly, I’ve added support for webmentions. This allows better cross-linking with other content creators we link to, and who link to us. This will help create a more connected, platform-agnostic internet. I highly recommend looking into it. I’ve also added more standard features for a blog: you can share links to social media from each article, and there’s a tagging system to make finding related articles easier

I haven’t been streaming nearly as much lately, this is partly due to my life being much busier lately, but secondarily, I am less inclined to use Twitch, since I am actively working to push back against large platforms, and there isn’t one much larger than Amazon. I’ve considered getting back to streaming on Owncast exclusively, but my motivation has been low. I may try to get on more often to support a smaller platform and help it grow. I plan to write a deeper dive on Owncast. while I believe that a decentralized, federated internet is the direction we should be heading, Owncast has a long way to go to become a player against Twitch.

Some other upcoming content will cover the games I’ve played since my last post. The vast majority of my time has been spent in Path of Exile 2, Factorio: Space Age, and Satisfactory. I did find time to play some smaller games though Dredge and Stacklands 2000 were a blast. I’m going to write some content on each of them.

I’ve taken up a few more hobbies that could be interesting to share with everyone. I bought a Canon EOS R10, and decided to take up photography. I am still pretty new at it, but enjoy doing it. I’ve been adding photos on my pixelfed, feel free to follow me there for some of the photos I take. If you have any advice on how to edit them better, feel free to contact me there with advice.

Additionally, I’ve started learning how to produce music. This is not something I ever expect to be a career for me, but it’s absolutely a fun hobby. I downloaded Ardour, an open-source DAW and have been playing with it. My plan is to produce music, upload it to various platforms, and allow others to use it royalty-free. I’m not looking to become a professional musician; as a result, my goal is to simply create music people enjoy and can use without fear of copyright strike.

My goal is to update here more frequently. I will figure out how to incorporate the music and the photography as well. I think that gaming, technology, social issues, photography, and music content should be a good range of topics for the blog.