Gods. I've been reading a steady stream of books lately, but Holly Black has been absolutely slaying it. She really does have a vicious knack for portraying trauma and extremely complicated characters who have been hurt badly and go through life protecting themselves and making situations worse and more fucked up in the pursuit of avoiding further harm.

Attempting to write a blurb for my consulting website, since I have some availability in about a month.

Trying to write ad copy for yourself sucks ass. Especially when the executive summary is "Hello hire me so I can help you make Cool Shit, or unfuck your existing shit so it can realize its latent Cool Shit Potential".

if you need help Building or Unfucking some Cool Shit.

I specialize in Rust, Embedded Systems, and Rapid Prototyping (building the Right Cool Shit for Right Now, very quickly).

I will offer you an unspecified discount if you contact me and have a cohost account older than this post.

tbh I used to use Twitter to "promote myself", mostly just building stuff and talking about it, which was enough for people to find me. It'd be real neat if I could use that for Cohost too.

you know that feeling, when you read an essay on a topic you're adjacent to, or nowadays watch a video essay/listen to an audio essay on said topic, and all of the ideas are things you already knew and agreed with or don't really have a strong stance about etc, but they say a bunch of words for things, which you didn't know had a way to say them?

I've done that a bunch lately. Here's a list of a few video essays that hit this, I lose text essays fast and I haven't found anyone other than myself making audio essays these days (the scene is there, it's just extremely difficult to find your audio essay unless you make a video out of it).