Several years ago, I made a new blog over at 127local.net but didn’t really keep with it. It’s a common theme of mine – start a project, be excited about it for a while, and then move onto the next exciting thing.

Fast forward to now, I have a new obsession and project, and this blog at wgb.dev is born. The main driver for getting this up and running was an innocous query along the lines of “how much per year are you paying for your domain habit”. Uh, next question. Anyway. I figured I shouldn’t let this expensive 3 character .dev languish. 127local is getting some love with the calculator. Do I have more domains that need used? Absolutely. Keep your eyes and ears peeled for some Pixelfed musings.

As for where this site lives, I wanted this one to live on my own infrastructure. I recently moved whil.io over to Github Pages, which is nice for deployments, availability, and stability, but doesn’t really scratch the itch for me. You know what also doesn’t scratch the itch for me? Waiting to deploy this project until some drives for my Kubernetes cluster storage nodes arrive in the mail. I guess we could go stateless and just pull from VCS… No. Stop. We’ll put it in an S3 bucket. I know just slapping it on AWS is the easy way out, and not really in the spirit of things, but, hey, website. At least it isn’t Squarespace or Wordpress.

Anyway. More to come. Some of the folks at Emerald Onion have been inspiring me to be a little more carefree with a blog and to keep hacking at my own projects.