Hi, I'm Eric.

I’m an avid world traveler, photographer, software developer, and digital storyteller.

I help implement the Content Authenticity Initiative at Adobe.

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Why Personal Websites Are Coming Back | Dead Parrot BBS

Found on 19 September 2026 via Mastodon 548

via Assaf 🌴 (@assaf@mas.to): “A collection of personal websites and an RSS reader can produce a surprisingly good Internet. It will probably be a smaller one. That’s fine.”

A thoughtful case for owning your own corner of the web: a website is a place you control, while a social media account is space inside someone else’s place — including the audience, which was never really yours. Refreshingly, it avoids simple nostalgia and acknowledges that the old web had real problems too.

Why Personal Websites Are Coming Back | Dead Parrot BBS

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