About this web site
Greetings and salutations
Over the years I got in the habit of jotting down notes in irregular fashion. Sometimes a few times a day, other times months passed without any such activity.
In 2025, two thoughts converged: The notion of trying to make some sense of these notes and the reflection that given the progress in AI, creating a website (by hand) is likely soon a thing of the past.
Not having made or worked on a website for many years, it seems a worthwhile path of exploration to see the route the node.js world has walked. Being notorious for a new framework du jour at least twice a year this was somewhat confusing. For those interested in the underlying technology: In the end I ended up with a TypeScript/Node.js framework called sveltekit with tailwind for the CSS, for better or for worse.
The basic setup of this site is the result of work during my spare time over a few weeks to put some sort of structure together to present notes.
As time and motivation permits, I expect to pull more of the old and new notes together, clean them up a bit and present them in a way that makes a little more sense than the jumbled notes I start with.
I suppose you can call this a blog. But that concept may soon be over soon, too. The time seems near when writings on the web are nothing else than training material for AI models, while humans use the computer generated summaries to consume written content. Surely, the AI revolution will remake the way writings are presented on the web.
Already it is clear that long form intensive literacy is coming to an end. Most (younger) people simply don't read long books, outside of education, like they did 30 years ago, heck even 2 years ago: We're living in the Shorts era.
Talking about AI use: All text and the underlying code, at least at this
time, is written by hand. No AI use there, although I suspect that will
change.
However, for images for the Spunk category, I decided to use
the creation power of the modern image creation tool, as indicated below
the relevant images. The Glimp images are either taken by me or are stock
images. The image on the home page is either taken off social media or taken by me.
So here it is. As they say: Your milage will vary
Sail on!
P.S. If you're into astrology, here's my horoscope