Aug 16, 2026
How to get started building your digital identity away from big social media platforms by learning your first HTML and setting up your own personal website.
https://vhsoverdrive.neocities.org/essays/dhs-identity.html
Apr 15, 2026
How to use open protocols to reclaim the social internet from social media
https://vhsoverdrive.neocities.org/essays/dhs-communications.html
Mar 9, 2026
An introduction and practical first steps into digital self-reliance - owning your digital presence.
https://vhsoverdrive.neocities.org/essays/dhs-foundations.html
Aug 20, 2025
Talking about all the reasons that I don't like generative AI, and why I won't use it.
https://vhsoverdrive.neocities.org/essays/youarenotalone.html
Aug 7, 2025
Talking about all the reasons that I don't like generative AI, and why I won't use it.
https://vhsoverdrive.neocities.org/essays/whynoai.html
Jul 2, 2025
A short explanation of my craziest idea yet: Anti-Ads.
https://vhsoverdrive.neocities.org/essays/antiads.html
May 26, 2025
How I made the concious decision to unplug from the engagement machine, and started doing more things offline.
https://vhsoverdrive.neocities.org/essays/offlineliving.html
Mar 1, 2025
A short musing about recovering my old Gaia Online account, and forum culture in general.
https://vhsoverdrive.neocities.org/essays/forumculture.html
Mar 1, 2025
Making the case for why we should return to the simplicity of the old way of engaging with the internet: browsing and creating away from the shackles of social media.
https://vhsoverdrive.neocities.org/essays/socialistinternet.html
Mar 1, 2025
A story of the tiniest element of a web page that I used to have, how much it meant to me, and what happened when I found it again.
https://vhsoverdrive.neocities.org/essays/animecounter.html
Sep 23, 2024
Talking about how personal web pages used to link together and form the backbone of the early web, and how we should go back to doing that.
https://vhsoverdrive.neocities.org/essays/linkpage.html
Jul 24, 2022
Just me remembering all the places that I grew up with that are - for one reason or another - gone forever.
https://vhsoverdrive.neocities.org/essays/places.html
Jul 1, 2022
Making the case for why we should return to the simplicity of the old way of engaging with the internet: browsing and creating away from the shackles of social media.
https://vhsoverdrive.neocities.org/essays/oldweb.html