Hello World

Welcome to diachrony.net! I’m Matt, and this is what I’ve been tinkering on lately. So far it’s a pretty barebones blog-like site, but I’m running it from a home server instead of an abstracted hosting service. If my power goes out, this site goes down, and honestly I think that’s pretty cool.

Why? I love making things with computers, but this practice is rapidly getting more and more abstract, and I’ve been missing the manual satisfaction of snapping things together at a low level. Don’t get me wrong, Codex built most of this site, but it’s been a fun challenge to develop enough understanding of DIY infrastructure to run diachrony.net and a growing garden of experiments from my closet. I’ll add more notes on how this all works as I keep learning and expanding on these projects.

I’m also interested in exploring self-hosting as a form of identity development. In the same way that language is thought, published material is identity in the modern world. And if the medium is the message, the channel I use for my published material might influence the way it feels to be me. I’m hoping that removing some corporate intermediation will make it more fun to be a human online again.

More thoughts to come, as always, but for now I’m going back to tinkering. Thanks for reading!