First post

2/2/26

  Wow. So let me preface this by saying I have never actually had a blog. I've never had a journal either. Really, I've never had anything where I've written about myself. Everything has been a shower (or toilet) thought that racks around my brain for a while until I forget it. Every event that's happened in my life doesn't have a physical, written space. Sure I have photos of myself, mostly photos of when I was a kid, but no written pieces of how I feel about how I'm doing that day or what I'm looking forward to. I think the closest thing I've got to that is a sophisticated piece of literature from kindergarten that says I want to be a cat when I grow up (which honestly isn't far from the truth, minus the whole being a cat thing).

  I think I'll start with why I made this site in the first place. Recently I've gone down the rabbit hole of personal security and privacy. I was always aware of it as I am a naturally paranoid person, but I never went as indepth as I have now. I first dug in on /g/'s /cyb/+/sec/ general where I found Dig Deeper and sizeof.cat (RIP). Dig Deeper brought me to other sites and those sites to other sites and so on. I was entranced by how these sites seemed to mirror the Internet I grew up with.

  Seeing people talking about how they made their website as a way to decentralize from the Big 4 inspired me to do the same. I've never been a social media type of person. I had a Facebook account (that I have since deleted) for the purpose of remembering the people I went to school with and family. When I realized "Wow I don't even talk to any of these people. Am I really only keeping this because someone I went to school with became a celebrity?", I dropped the 'book like a rock. Unfortunately, it hit me on the toes when I realized that even after "deleting" my data from them, Meta has already spread my personal data far and wide.

  I should say that I am very bad at staying on one train of thought. Ask any cashier who has asked me how I'm doing, they'll say word vomit is my specialty. Anyways.. All of the jumping down rabbit holes has gotten me to bring back what once made me excited to turn on the computer: Making websites. I had made at least one hundred Geocities websites back in the day since I had no idea how to do HTML let alone CSS, so I'd just make a new site whenever I felt like it. Pretty wild to think about now.

  I think I'll flush the toilet on that word vomit now since this has gotten all over the place. I'll make an RSS feed whenever I think of something to write that's worth keeping updated on. Later skaters.

-Scrundle