Howdy!

I most often go by the alias Taijee, a variation on the word “taiji”: the concept of yin and yang. I'm a British techy hobbyist. I'm too lazy to make a function that calculates my age and displays it here, but I was born in January 2008. If you want to know that much, you'll figure it out yourself.

I don't really have one thing that I can say is “the thing that I do”, but many of my interests revolve around technology, programming and a smattering of design. That's not to say I'm particularly competent at any of those things, but I know my way around a computer, and am basically the de facto technician of the family, whether I like it or not.

I've worked on a number of projects during my time on The Internet™, most laying unfinished. They consist of many Discord bots, a handful of self-hosted AI systems (they really didn't get far at all, I can assure), and a small library worth of fiddly Python scripts that I had an arduous time making to do various, otherwise not-actually-that-arduous tasks.

Cat.

I have a black cat. He's a little shit called Toto, and I love him dearly.

About this site

This website was designed as nothing more than a dumping ground for my thoughts, complaints, musings and other such ramblings. It's also a long-term project to keep my silly little attention-deficit brain occupied, when it decides it wants that.

It uses the Flexoki colour scheme, the 0xPropo typeface for body text, and the Barlow typeface for headings and bigger text. There was zero rhyme or reason as to why I picked this combination of fonts at all; it was quite literally changing out fonts until I found a combo that my caveman brain liked. Or, more accurately, until my patience (and thus my standards) dwindled so low that I gave up caring.

It's built using incredibly messy Origami (the language, not the Japanese artform involving folded paper, which I'm also awful at), hosted on a Raspberry Pi, and held together with boogers, duct tape and hope. Alright, fine. I didn't actually use duct tape. The rest is the truth, though.

Hold up -- a Raspberry Pi?

Yep. Not a particularly good one, either. It's a Pi Zero that I had laying around that was given to me as a Christmas gift, plugged into the wall at all times, just next to my computer. That means: please be careful, the infrastructure of this site isn't exactly robust. It's fine for now; I don't expect enough people will ever be on my site at any one time to cause much issue.

As long as I don't get DDOSed, we'll have no problems. But that probably reflects worse on the attacker than it does on me -- do you not have better things to do? Like shit, man, get a hobby. Learn to bake. Do a jigsaw puzzle. Make a shoddy personal website and host it using fifteen-quid hardware. Tsk.

As for why, I'd like to tell you I did it for the sake of learning and trying new things, but that would be a load of horseradish. The real answer: it's cheap. I hate subscriptions. If I can save a tenner a month, or however much a VPS is (I actually never really checked), I'm gonna do it. I'll pinch a penny until the Queen's head starts screaming.