Back after a long break — site revamp, old posts, and what's next

So, uh — hi.

It’s been a while. A long while. Between COVID, a pretty big change of pace, a different lifestyle, and just… life, I kind of let the blog sit. I’m not going to pretend I had some grand plan for the silence. I didn’t. I just needed the space, and then the space turned into years.

But I’m back now. And I’m trying to do this right this time.

About the Twitter thing — I owe some people an apology

One thing I do regret: right before the X acquisition and everything that came with it, I deleted my Twitter account. I had somewhere around 50,000 followers at the time, and I just… pulled the plug. No heads-up, no migration post, nothing. If you were one of those people — I’m sorry. You deserved better than a vanished account and silence.

For what it’s worth, I’ve noticed a lot of folks from that corner of the internet seem to have ended up on Bluesky or scattered elsewhere anyway, which is honestly a relief to see. I might rebuild somewhere at some point — probably Bluesky if I do — but I’m not in a rush.

I hope the writing and the conversations were useful while they lasted. I hope I helped at least a few people feel less alone, because that was always the whole point. But I also have to be honest: social media, especially at that scale, wasn’t healthy for me. It reshaped my attention, my mood, and what I thought I had to be doing with my time. Stepping away — even abruptly — ended up quietly changing my priorities in a really good way. I got a lot of myself back.

So, apology on the table. Gratitude too.

The site got a full rebuild

If the place looks different, that’s because it is. I tore the old WordPress setup down and rebuilt everything from scratch — fully static, self-hosted fonts, no tracking, no pop-ups, no “subscribe before you can read.” Just posts and a dark blueprint-y vibe that feels a lot more like me.

A few things that are new:

• Categories: Health, Tech, and General (that’s where this post lives)
• A real tag index and a static Search that runs entirely in your browser
• Related posts at the bottom of each article, so you’re not stuck guessing what else might be useful
• Proper disclaimers, a privacy policy, and all the legal stuff I should’ve had the first time around

Small things, but they add up.

Some of my older mental health posts are coming back

A bunch of my writing from years ago — bipolar disorder stuff, coping skills, suicidal thoughts, stigma, the ugly honest posts — got migrated over from the archive. Not all of it; some of it just doesn’t hold up, and some of it I don’t think is helpful anymore. But the pieces that still felt true to what I went through are back up, marked as archived where appropriate so it’s clear they’re from a different chapter of my life.

If you landed here from an old link and something’s broken, let me know — I’d rather fix it than have it rot.

What’s coming

More posts. That’s the short version. The longer version:

• More mental health writing, but from where I am now, not where I was ten years ago
• Some tech and SEO notes, because that’s what I actually do for work
• And general stuff like this — the in-between things that don’t fit a niche but are still worth saying out loud

I’m not going to promise a posting schedule. I’ve learned that lesson. But I’m around, the lights are on, and I’m writing again.

Thanks for still being here. It means more than you know.