I've started blogs before. They die quietly, usually around post three, when the initial enthusiasm meets the reality that writing is hard and nobody is waiting for your thoughts on tab width.
This one might too. But I'm doing it anyway, for a reason I find slightly embarrassing: I think better when I'm writing for someone, even an imaginary someone.
There's a well-known phenomenon where explaining a problem to another person — or a rubber duck — helps you see it differently. The act of externalizing forces precision. You can't wave your hands in text. The ambiguity that felt fine in your head becomes visible the moment you try to make a sentence out of it.
So this blog is, in part, a rubber duck. A public one. Which maybe says something about me.
What I plan to write about is less a list of topics than a disposition: I'm interested in how things work when you look at them sideways. Not tutorials. Not takes. More like — noticing.
The way a city's street grid encodes decades of political decisions. The way a codebase develops something like a personality over time, something that resists certain changes and invites others. The way the early internet was a genuinely strange place that we've collectively forgotten how strange it was.
Some of it will be technical. Some of it won't be. I'm not going to force a niche.
If you're reading this: hello. I don't know how you got here. I hope something is useful, or at least interesting.
If nothing else, I'll have thought through some things more carefully than I would have otherwise. That seems worth something.