About this site
Hi! I'm Brent (link to my main website). I'm a programmer/artist/creative technologist/person who has trouble picking a title based in Brooklyn, New York.
I write about tech and culture, projects I do in those two spheres, and about less interesting topics like my life, goals, and dreams. I also keep track of things I'm reading, playing, and watching. This is a personal blog (don't call it a digital garden) so you get it all in one feed. I started this blog in 2022, but you can also find posts from my old Medium that I've imported here in preparation for Medium eventually paywalling everything.
Lesser daemon is a silly little programmer pun, combining the concept of a "lesser demon", a class of not-so-strong demons usually found in old videogames, with a daemon, a background process that keeps running on your computer. I found out after coming up with it that it's also a Warhammer thing. Please don't hold it against me.
Where To Find Me
Feel free to reach out to me if you want to give me money or liked something I wrote:
My email is brent bailey [at] proton mail [dot] com. I am not always great at responding to it but it's always nice to hear from you.
Why I Do This
I could write about this extensively, but in short:
- I like learning in public.
- I believe that writing is thinking, especially when you force yourself to do it for an audience.
- I‘m a big fan of personal websites.
- I find it valuable to be able to read through my old thoughts and ideas and see how I have or haven't changed.
- I have gotten a lot, in life, out of random people's writing - blog posts from Some Guy Online have helped me immensely over the years. I hope I can pay that forward for someone else.
- Most of all, I think making things is one of the best thing you can do for yourself, no matter how imperfect. If it's worth doing, it's worth doing poorly.
Technical Details
This website is hosted on Hetzner Cloud, and uses Ghost as a content management system. It also hosts the occasional web project that I don't want to purchase a separate domain name for. It collects some basic analytics with Plausible, which has a pretty good rep for respecting people's privacy. I intend to keep any data collection to a minimum unless for some reason my blog becomes popular enough that it can pay my rent.
Disclaimer: this site is in a perpetual state of being "under construction", I experiment with it a lot, and I would not count on URLs staying the same or content remaining up permanently. I do try to keep blog posts up unless I deeply regret them for some reason or other.