About
Despite this blog's appearance—and the fact it's designed on a service primarily hosting web 1.0 throwbacks—this is not an exercise in nostalgia. It is a part of a larger attempt to break from algorithmic constraint. It is an attempt to consider my consumption, which is why you'll find some kind of daily offering: a daily listen. a blog post, an addition to the links page. Something will happen here every day, no matter how insignificant.
I'm viewing Daily Eclectoid as a digital perzine, assembled by hand but reliant on the experiements and documentation of others. LLMs might be collapsing the internet, but projects like Neocities are the forgotten means of digital citizenry that provide buoys. There is still joy and discovery to be found online if you're willing to put in the effort.
This is also a way to house and encourage my writing practice, as well as my design skills. I'd like to learn and maintain some basic HTML, CSS, and perhaps even some Java. I'd like to regularly back up my blog posts. Add a section of published stories. This space might become much larger than its current iteration. Or it'll remain small and accessible. It is, after all, an experiment. Inevitably, I'll abandon it someday. But I'll learn something in the interim. Maybe you will too.
