Articles I Might Finish Some Day

The last article I wrote on this blog was on the 6th of March. I hadn't updated my now page since late May. In the months since these posts, I've been deep into the throes of Real Life (that is, the offline world of flesh and blood and sweat and tears). I moved house - over a hundred miles from my childhood home, I became friends with so many new likeminded people, interpersonal relationships ebbed and flowed, I've been in and out of hospital for friends and friends' relatives, I attended a funeral, I got my first tattoo, and my car dumped various fluids all over the tarmac (I spent several money getting him fixed).

Alongside this, I've been coming to terms with my (as of yet undiagnosed) ADHD and autism, which has led to a lot of self-reflection in the form of journalling, which can be helpful if I remember to do it. Routines are really helpful for my autism, but my ADHD knows that routines are boring, and so tends to give me a healthy dose of executive dysfunction when I go to do parts of a routine. This includes writing about things for my blog, which has gone somewhat neglected in the interim. (Part of that, I feel, is that I should be less serious with my personal website - I do think there's an amount of self-censoring that can happen when Posting; employers tend to have social media policies, and it's been known that potential employers will scour any OSINT they can find on a potential hire during the interview process.)

In my note-taking app of choice (Joplin, which I quite like as a no-fuss I just need to write Markdown app) I have several draft posts that I had intended to write and post on this site, but have since stalled for various reasons. Amongst them are some that I think I'll finish some day:

1. Peak Car is Long Gone

   In which I theorise how the peak Enthusiast's Car is always 20 years old, how car companies have pivoted to being technology companies as making An Car is a solved problem, and that we might have already seen the last Enthusiast's Car.

2. All Killer, No Filler

   In which I out myself as a "they don't make 'em like they used to" gamer and discuss the lost art of video game menus and artstyle consistency.

3. untitled post about societal progress

   In which I discuss how I have personally seen societal progress happen, but that we don't notice it in the moment until we look back and say "why did we ever do things that way".

4. B-Sides

   In which I talk about the lost art that is the B-side, the death and resurgence of physical media, and what it's like to be present in a moment.

5. untitled post about how i got into tech

   In which I explain how using Discord and writing a bot helped me land me a job as a software engineer, by starting my journey into Linux administration and programming.

I can't quite work out which one to tackle first. If you know me, or want to read one of these unfinished articles, please drop me a message and request it - that should give me more impetus to finish it.