Why does this website exist?

Published 2022-07-08

I’m an eclectic. I race dirtbikes, I’ve owned and maintained aircooled vws, Ive rebuilt motorcycles and I sew amongst a long list of things I’ve done and abandoned.

I’ve turned to this medium mostly out of appreciation for the random web 1.0 sites I bump into on occasion as I research weird niche topics.

While sewing myself a diaper bag a few months before my second son was born I found Justus Grunow’s post on the Merchant Mills ruck and I was reminded how much I loved Web 1.0. Instead of billionaire’s feeds and algorithms determining how our content was curated and displayed, we had personal sites. Mine was on geocities with worse style than here with marquee tags and auto-playing music.

I’ll still be on social media as that’s how I connect with people who also make and build things, but it just makes sense to me to have a place for long form project posts.