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This blog is two things in one. The first is to share posts on coding, in particular about Syntə, a new(ish) live coding platform and language. The second is to be a personal page about me, Daniel.
I’m an open source software developer based in London, UK. My main project is Syntə, which I’m also using to perform with on a regular basis.
As a personal site, the purpose - alongside being my frontend to the world [wide web] - is to share thoughts, ideas and generally attempt to explain myself. This does entail that I may unwittingly repeat what others have said better, but as Stigler’s law of eponymy evidences - there is barely an original thought under the sun ☀
Like everyone else on the internet I’m an expert in a field of one, but my bigger fault is intermittency so do give a nudge if you have something interesting to say :)
There is something else too. It relates to a journey of mine: In pursuit of a zen state of mind and much more free time to get on with my many personal projects, I have pretty much abandoned social media. The only things clinging on are the occasional messaging group and putting my feet up in front of nerdTube, which I should probably do less of too! I should add that I recently joined social.toplap.org and found the community very welcoming :)
Overall though, this change has been a success and has barely put a dent in my social life - a surprising amount of things are still conducted via good old email. What’s more, I have been able to really focus and get things done, which has of course been very satisfying.
I’ve also been able to focus more cleanly on real-world connexions, again with obvious rewards. I recommend a data-diet to anyone - I started by going down to 250mb per day in 2017 - and have not looked back since. This site will hopefully be a good way to have my own manicured web presence, without any distracting feed algorithms or entrenched data collection.
Namaste 🙏
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