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16 January 2024

Fear of the personal

This sounds silly from someone having a personal blog, but I’m sometimes having a hard time writing personal things on my blog. How ironic, right? I think this fear stems from having written a mountain of incredibly cringey personal things in the first incarnations of my blog, having made very complicated social experiences in the past, and to some degree, from where I’m from. I used to write literally just what I was thinking in my blog between 2005 and 2008 (and also before that, but on a web 1.0 website rather than a blog). This was a completely disorganized […]

20 January 2023

Blog layouts through the ages

Welcome to adulthood, chaosworks.org! This domain name has now been in my possession for 18 years, and this year, in 2023, it has finally found a new purpose after having been a mere splash screen for over a decade. If you’ve followed my internet presence in the past, you probably know that I’ve always had some sort of website or blog. I have already mentioned some of these in my post Delving into the past of this blog from a few months ago. Now with chaosworks.org as the latest incarnation of my personal internet presence, as well as with a […]

5 October 2022

Delving into the past of this blog

This blog has existed in various forms, with a few breaks, since March 2005. There might even have been earlier versions of this blog, but probably in the form of some cringey “personal website”, as they were all the rage from 2000-2005, before blogs were a thing. Since I didn’t really blog much the last few years, I took my blog offline for a while. Reasons for that are varied, one of them is that I was definitely too busy with other things in my life, and another is that WordPress has become a UX nightmare for the casual blogger. […]