A Little Housekeeping

I did a little housekeeping on the site over the weekend. Most prominent is a move to a new domain: staticmade.com. This isn’t a new domain per se, but one that I’ve been holding in my back pocket for several years. It actually used to be my primary domain and online identity circa 2007. The internet I’m most interested in right now feels a lot like the internet of early aughts, so I thought it was fitting to resurrect the Static Made moniker.

The name comes from one of my favorite songs, A Dozen Roses by Braid. During the bridge, songwriter Bob Nanna unleashes a poignant assertion: static made old radio. I’ve always liked this notion – that the imperfect elements of a thing shape the thing and make it special.

Along with the new domain comes a new Fediverse account (@jeffrey@staticmade.com) that will just host site syndication. This will free up my @jinscho@mountains.social account for personal interactions, banter and boosts. It makes it cleaner this way, in case someone wants to follow the site and not my Pittsburgh Steeler hot takes or bouldering sends.

Anyway, I’m sure there will be some kinks to iron out like feed updates and that sort of thing, but I’ll make sure to get to that stuff over the coming days.