New? or new to you?
I love tech and PCs. I’ve always enjoyed building my own computers and tinkering with things and creating. I still do, but there are two issues. First, hardware is getting outrageous. Storage and memory are ridiculous and there’s no end in sight. Second, not everyone loves the stuff I do.
If I wanted to appeal to a wider audience or even just have my friends enjoy seeing what I create, things needed to change. I needed more things that appealed to people that don’t have to do with the boxes taking up shelf space in my office. Those boxes are important, but so are other things.
Don’t get me wrong, I will still make content on those boxes and many more, but there will be more. Life is not defined by a YouTube algorithm. It may small steps at first, but that’s how we all learn to walk. Blogs like this are the first step, but the second is more of a leap.
Off a cliff?
In a manner of speaking, yes. I bought a new domain.
Take a second to look at the search bar. That first part thatpaulguy.tech is the domain, and it brings you to this website in all it’s glory. It’s very functional. It tells you who I am and a bit of what to expect when you are here. But to introduce something like this blog may be confusing. That part needed to change.
Buying a new domain is a simple process, and in theory, I could just move this site over there and hope for the best. To me that feels a bit lazy, and it doesn’t really fix what is broken. You don’t take the old air freshener out of your old car when you trade it in for a new one. Just because it’s already there, doesn’t mean I need to bring it to the new place.
But what about this site?
There will be some things that make the transition, and for a while at least, I will keep both sites. I have until the end of next summer to renew this domain, so we will see what fits, but that means the new site will be a different set up with different content. It may be a challenge keeping up, but there are more things coming up that would fit that page better than this one.
There is a lot of work in this site, but it’s not always consistent and I often struggle finding what fits. The new site won’t have that restriction, and although I will make mistakes, I look forward to it. As I’ve stated before, I’m not afraid to learn something.
So, over the next few days, thatpaulguy.net will go live. It will still tell you who I am, but the dot net allows me to widen the idea pool and create something besides tech content. I will still keep this site and occasionally there will be stuff that is on both sites, but I no longer have to wonder if things fit. Hell, none of it fits, but now I’m free to figure that out.
If you are still looking for the tech blog, I have to update that as well, but you will find it here. And my buddy Gus has something started that should be fun. He has a teaser of what’s coming here.
