This little application I wrote upon which you are actually reading these words, it is a labour of love and code, emerging from an effort to liberate my work from the confines of the various social media platforms. It should be clear by now that if you post anything on Instagram or Facebook or Twitter or the long list of social apps, you are essentially creating content for someone else’s business—which true enough you get some value in return for, but in many ways, you are also beholden to black-box algorithms, the scraping of your content by artificial intelligence bots, and of course, the sudden and abrupt change of ownership and/or moral position of those companies in relation to world politics or political agendas. Of course not everybody has the luxury of coding their own micro social media platform—if you can call something with one user a social media platform, of course—but over the many years that I have been writing small code for myself and others I have learned enough to build this thing and to tweak and refine it to a point where I am happy to post less on the social media platforms in exchange for patriation of my own content, my own space. In the last few weeks I have added the ability to upload small audio clips, which I think enhances the atmospheric ambiance of my posts here, and now today I have added the ability to add extended blocks of text only visible when you click on the single post page—so that in effect, I can write long form posts without cluttering up my main feed with pages and pages and pages of text. So if you are one of the rare people to read this on a regular basis and have actually clicked around and discovered this new feature or any of these new features, congratulations you explore deeper than 98% of most people on the Internet—and this is officially my first post with these new features attached fully implemented and finally at a stage where I feel this application is essentially complete for a while (or until I find some severe bug or gap.) I do feel that I can now accomplish almost anything I want on this little site and in doing so express myself creatively in my own space in a similar capacity to a standard blog or other platform or website. So. Thanks for reading.