I am posting this at the beginning of a new month. It seems like a good place to start. I am here to hold myself to account as I start a new endeavour which somehow scares me.

I’m really fascinated by computers and developing the skills to use them to solve problems in a creative and elegant way. (If you read www.skillissues.tech/about pages, you can find out the whole backstory)

I built the website and have played with some concepts but in an unstructured way which often exposes my limitations and lack of understanding.

I have built a few websites in the past, when I was a kid and such but only ever using ‘What You See Is What You Get’ (WYSIWYG, pronounced wizzy wig) internet platforms. They worked and were simple to use, just like dragging and dropping images and text in Microsoft Word. I had even managed to set up the DNS (Domain Name Server) records and email so that they looked ‘professional’.

I had planned on doing a well researched and in-depth piece about this topic. Considering I am against Big Tech and pro Open-Source this is a really interesting news story and it is going to develop over the next years. There is a lot at stake with over 40% of all websites built on WordPress.

The crazy thing is that in this case the Open-Source team player, Matt Mullenweg , has gone complete super villain in this story and is actually making the Venture Capitalists look good.

This website is intentionally minimal.

I will include some images from time to time to break up the text and add value but that’s it. The world wide web is intent on shouting and screaming in your face, fighting for your attention in order to manipulate you in a way to fulfil the needs of someone else, normally a corporation. It is never to meet your needs and never for your interests. Remember that.