I’ve been wanting to start a blog for years, but kept falling victim to yak shaving. After finding Julia Evans’s blog and watching (after the fact) her iterate on it and grow through doing it, I decided it was finally time for me to quit yak shaving and start doing.

This blog is built using Jekyll and GitLab pages. It currently does not support comments, but hopefully one day will.

The name comes from a slogan I learned several years ago while I was reading a blog post: “We Make Shitty Software… With Bugs!”¹. I took that slogan to heart, and it gave me a new perspective on the software that I write. I found the slogan deeply amusing, accurate, and empowering, and it became a part of who I am. So I thought the end part would be a fitting title for a blog that is going to develop itself iteratively.

This blog will hopefully serve both as a way of sharing and teaching what I know, and as a way to record what I work on and the steps (and missteps) I make along the way. To achieve that, I’m splitting it into two sections: the blog and a journal. The blog will contain well formatted and edited (if you find any grammatical, spelling, or other mistakes, please let me know so I can fix them) posts. The journal will contain active records of the things I do that I think will make for good blog posts. These will essentially be my notes for the blog posts. I’m going to make them public so that people can see the mistakes I make along the way, and so that I don’t forget about things.

While I don’t mind having this be just another place where I shout into the void, I would rather it not be. If anything I write here inspires you, intrigues you, confuses you, or otherwise causes you to want to interact, please feel free to reach out via Mastodon (or comments if they’ve been added by then).