The aggressive & ongoing enshittification of nearly every web platform (including all major social media, Substack, Reddit, Bandcamp, the upcoming acquisition of SoundCloud, et al) has convinced me to take on the hassle and expense of self-hosting some part of my web presence. To start with, there will be a blog (YOU ARE HERE) and a FairCamp site (which may or may not be live at the time this post is published). Here's what you should know:

• It's pronounced like "syncretic".
• If you want to get at me, I'm most easily found on Mastodon, but the footer of this page lists a bunch of channels I sometimes check in on.
• You can expect me to post about my music, other people's music that I enjoy or find interesting, synthesizers (hardware and software), software synth patch files, my music and instructional videos (first batch of modular synth tutorials coming in February), random musical topics in which I've taken an interest, and issues of note to the communities of independent/amateur musicians and creators I'm part of. Other topics may turn up, but I expect that to be rare.
• This blog will not support comments. A comments section is a magnet for spammers and toxic assholes, and I want to do site moderation like I want a sucking chest wound. Again, find me on Mastodon or one of my other socials if you have something you think I should hear.
• Technical notes: I'm using a static site generator (to wit, Pelican) to build this site, so it should load as fast as my cheap-ass shared hosting plan will allow. Nothing I'm doing here justifies the complexity, hassle, and performance hit incurred by dynamic, database-backed websites bogged down with megabytes of JavaScript. You, the rare visitor to my site, deserve better than all that.

Things you can expect to see in the near(-ish) future:

• More interesting prose than this just-the-facts-ma'am shit, when my current state of post-Covid exhaustion lifts 🤞🏻
• My tracks for Jamuary 2024
• Notes on my EP, which I'm planning to drop in February - it'll be a mix of a couple of older pieces and stuff fleshed out from Jamuary
• Audio streaming, when/if I have enough content and traffic to justify moving to a virtual private host

See you around the intarwebs.