the blog went down... oh no!

If you're my weekly visitor¹, you may have noticed the website went down for a few weeks… When hosting a website using DDNS (dynamic DNS) on your home WiFi, your ISP (internet service provider) may not be a huge fan.

an aside on DNS²:

Accessing a website is …

why start a blog?

Creating a blog has been an interest of mine for the past 10 years. I was introduced to Blogger, a popular blogging website in the 2000s, through a random middle school English elective class. The blogging¹ in question consisted of answering writing prompts with blog posts. I thoroughly enjoyed …