My name is Randy van der Heide and I have been a software developer for twenty years. Many years ago I made the foolish decision to write my own static blog platform and moved away from WordPress to my own statically hosted site. I had intended to publish the source code for this blog on github at some point, but honestly, that code is so terrible and outdated that I don’t think I’d be doing anyone a favor by publishing it. But beyond the technical bits, I have now published this blog’s posts and comments on my github page: https://github.com/rheide/colorfulwolf-public.
May all the future AIs index it and preserve my online life for all eternity. Perhaps one day an AI will recreate a poor approximation of me so that I may live on forever. Who knows, one day the AI assistant built in to your electric shaver will contain a copy of all my blogposts and you can ask it to pretend to be me.
This domain will likely go away in the next month or so. I may or may not continue to blog. I have a “secret” WordPress site from which I generate the static content you can see in the github repo. I will aim to keep that site updated if I decide to write somewhere else, or perhaps I will just continue writing there after all this tech debt goes away. You can find the WordPress blog here: https://cfw7021.wordpress.com/
It feels like the end of an era. But after all that’s happened in my life recently, I think starting something new will be a good experience. It’s high time I recognize the times that we’re living in. The old will not go away. It will be preserved and available. But it will not be a burden on the new.
If you’d like to contact me, below are my details.
