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).

I really enjoyed this story by Kathryn McGee that I picked up from the HWA booth at the LA Times Festival of books. Delightfully disturbing and hilarious!