Side Quests

Seriously, what am I thinking? I just wanted a nerdy project to dork around with one day… …something separate from my portfolio site where I didn’t feel the need to be professional. …something “simple” to write out some thoughts occasionally. …a platform I felt like I owned and controlled. But why…? Because I miss the Internet before social media! We used to have stupid blogs and forums. People connected sites through web rings. When you found sites you liked, you would save them to your feed reader (RIP Google Reader) to see what was new. ...

As nerdy as I am, you’d probably assume I use my phone for everything. I used to be on the hunt for the best to-do app… the best quick note-taking app… the best, well, anything app. Turns out a lot of apps just didn’t do it for me. I was wasting more time dorking around with my phone than actually using these apps as tools. More than a few apps were discontinued. Some moved to subscription models. Others would change their interface and I’d lose that muscle memory needed to do things quickly. ...