About

The world wide web of the late 90s and early 00s was fun because there was less structure. SEO, recommendation systems, and LLMs are designed to give you the minimal viable content, but sometimes its good to have a bit of roughage, and this collection of creative writing, opinions, projects, and links to the work of others are my contribution to that.

The Exobase especially is a place for me to push some lol what happens if ideas about the future and see if they work. Someone who never writes will stuggle to have a fully formed idea about anything nontrivial, and the future is so nontrivial that in a lot of sci-fi it gets handwaved away as a dystopia or simplified to some Unified Earth, when the reality is likely to be a lot more interesting.

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This site lives on the edge — Cloudflare Pages - which is free as in beer for me, and means faster response times for you, regardless of where you are in the world. This site gets a 93/100 rating on PageSpeed insights, with most of the delay coming from useful cloudflare features like obfuscating my email address for automated scanners.

This is actually a static site, in that it loads everything from the server once, as even the entire exobase is just a few hundred KB of text. This is committed into github so I have a versioned history of everything I write, and automatically deployed from there via wrangler.

Although very convenient, I have mixed feelings about Cloudflare being the gatekeeper and tracker of usage for this site and may well move to self hosting once it is a bit more stable. I am not a web developer, but I have found the Remix framework easy to work with, and tailwind css to be simple enough to create layouts which (mostly) adapt gracefully from phone to desktop. And I do use LLMs for help with various technical issues, since after all I am only human.