It's good to be here!

By that I mean, it's especially nice to feel welcome here even though I am in no way a software developer.

I use the term Software Historian because I have found myself especially fascinated with the origin stories of the platforms and services we use in the past 3-4 years, especially regarding Word Processors.

My ultimate software development aspiration would be to build my own CMS with Python from scratch, but I'm not just being humble when I tell you that I am very far away from doing that.

Recently, I have been toying with the idea of writing a Literary History of Streaming Music, directly inspired by Professor Matthew G. Kirschenbaum's Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing, continuing the work I began in one of my all-time best essays examining the Holiness of Bandcamp as a technology company who can do no wrong.

I'm sure anyone reading this can relate when I lament that I really should get around to writing an updated bio, but I've already spent enough time on this one, I think. Let me just quote myself from my blog's about page:

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  <p>I’ve already born witness to innovation bridging divisions between people throughout the greatest informational
    renaissance my species has ever seen... Originally, I wrote about our relationship with <strong>cars</strong>
    (<a href='https://dieselgoth.com/2019-volkswagen-atlas-sel-vr6-review'>2019 Volkswagen Atlas Review</a>) and now
    <strong>technology</strong> (<a href='https://bilge.world/bandcamp-streaming-music'>Bandcamp: Streaming&#39;s
      Secret Savior</a>) from a perspective that feels tedious or abstract to some, but is generally entertaining,
    through-and-through. I’m proud of the work I’ve done so far, which has been wild, absurd, reflective, and
    hilarious — occasionally all in the same work as I develop my voice.</p>
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<p>I&#39;m not just horsing around when I say <strong>feel free to <a href='mailto:davidblue@extratone.com'>email
      me</a> about literally anything</strong>. </p>

See: my NeoCities action group for Drafts.

† The Psalms (My technology blog. Entirely nonsecular, I promise)

🇪🇺 End User (A solo "podcast" which I update now and then, talking to my phone - silence truncated - about things I've been exploring.)

⌨ The iPhone x Bluetooth Keyboard Project (Perhaps my very first truly worthwhile cause.)

Ǝ Extratone (An online music magazine which I devoted most of my adult life to developing up until 2018.)

⎆ Social Directory (An ongoing list of links to my profiles on every social service I can remember signing up for.)

<p class="dinkus">⎃⎃⎃⎃⎃⎃⎃⎃ d i n k u s ⎃⎃⎃⎃⎃⎃⎃⎃</p>

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