Tech

  • Hosted at micro.blog, which runs Hugo to generate a static site
  • Joplin and Notepad++ for writing
  • Some occasional help from AI coding tools for small bits here and there (I feel the need to apologize for this even though I check the code before deploying, etc.) All written content on this site is mine and is not generated or edited by AI. Audio may have been transcribed by AI but has been cleaned up and corrected by me because, woo boy, lotsa mistakes.
  • “Design,” if you can call it that, is by me with assorted cut-and-paste-and-adjust CSS.

History

  • My personal web site first launched in late 1994, my freshman year of college. (Yes, that’s over 30 years ago.)
  • My domain, laze.net, soft launched in late 1997 and officially launched on January 1, 1998.
  • My first blog post (of sorts) was on April 20, 1998.
  • The current version of this site launched on August 23, 2024.

Principals

  • First and foremost, this site is whatever I feel like it being.
  • People can visit, or not (and not many do!). This is a project without a goal other than existing.
  • I follow the general approach of and philosophy behind the IndieWeb, Small Web, and Slow Web movements.
  • There is a simple digital garden, inspired by Maggie Appleton.
  • I aim to keep everything very simple from the management perspective.
  • Comments are fine on blogs, but I don’t feel like moderating so I don’t have them. I would rather hear from you directly.
  • Ads? Hah.

Privacy

  • I use Umami, a privacy-forward analytics tool. I don’t need to track who’s coming to my site. But every so often, I like to know roughly how many of you knuckleheads are here and who is sending you.