Back in November 2025, I wrote about Cycles and patterns and how they all take my time during a day in various combinations. Working on my portfolio, listening to records, tinkering with old computers and gadgets and many more.

All the hobbies and activities eventually converge into one point, this website. My website. While it’s not meant to be the homepage of the internet, nor a community builder, it’s mine, and it means I can post and publish whatever I want, whenever I want, in whatever form I desire. And this is a luxury not many people have.

I first created a personal site back in 2002 (yes, that’s 24 years ago!) when I discovered Tripod (before it was transformed by Lycos), which provided access to a free site builder, which was an insane piece of technology back in the day. Having a 16 year old kid with an affinity towards building digital spaces get access to a building tool that powerful was mind-opening, as it set me up on the path of becoming a web developer. I don’t care that is was cringe as fuck, looking back at yourself twenty four years ago and cringing means that you’ve fucking progressed.

It all began as a tool for improving my social online presence and to keep in touch with online friends back in the day when being online was a deliberate act, requiring you to either visit an internet cafe, or to wait for 30 minutes to connect to the Internet using your dial-up connection. I’d set up a “Photos” section, where I’d post photographs with all my friends, either that we took together, or they were sent to me by them from their wanderings across the earth. And suddenly, all my online friends started to come to my site to see if any new photos were added. I was Tom from Myspace years before social networks were actually a thing.

The site evolved, and I started to post updates every few days by just updating the homepage, because the term of blog wasn’t invented and we didn’t know we can structure updates this way. It eventually turned into a blog where I’d post about everything noteworthy in my life, music, movies, things I’ve seen or done and so on.

And we’re hyperwarping through time to the year 2026 and find my website as the central point of my hobbies, a place where all my hobbies and passions intersect, and each article is meticulously written and composed in order to convey as much of my passion towards the subject as possible.

As a music buff, I’ve started collecting postcards with music on them, called Fotodiscs and ripped their audio and posted it online, in an effort to document them all. I’m also documenting pretty much every record that sits on my turntable. Why? Because why not? If I post something and one person discovers great music through it, it makes me happy.

As a retrotech passionate, I’ve collected various gadgets, from computer and gaming consoles, to an mp3 player that reminds me of a crush I had twenty years ago. Or about the typewriter I use to write my Christmas cards on.

I could speak about each section of my website and you’d discover a new side of me, a new interest and you’d see them all converge and intersect into me, and crystalize into this website as a method of self-expression, and further self-discovery.

I love it when people intersect their passions and they are able to transcend their hobbies into a different format or a different world and apply something learned in music into woodcarving, or whatever mix of crazy stuff they do. It’s what makes us human and what AI could never properly do, having a soul and mixing it up with whatever makes that soul happy.

So, in the end, keep an open mind to everything and let your hobbies flow into the other. Build stuff, document it, create, bring something new to the world, even if it’s not perfect. Even if it’s shit, it’s yours, and it’s what makes you be you. So nurture your hobbies, let them intersect and interact and never be afraid to experiment with them!