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Welcome to my website!

I’m Riley. I write stuff. That’s about it, really.

So what’s all this, then?

To be completely honest, I don’t know what to do with this website yet. It’s essentially just a landing page for my personal projects. Here are some topics I might want to post about at some point.

• Free culture. I believe that information should belong to everyone. After all, sharing our work and letting others build on it are literally the foundations of the Web, and allowing advertising companies to have the amount of influence they do can only destroy the small amount of trust we still have in each other.
• The Fediverse. I have to admit I don’t understand the appeal of social media, and a decentralized form of it that none of my friends are on should feel like a massive turnoff, but there‘s something about the Fediverse that makes me want to nurture it and help it grow. I’m already on Mastodon, and in a few months I plan to start a vlog on PeerTube.
• Conlangs and worldbuilding. I’ve always had a passion for languages, and in fact I’ve been a lurker in conlanging communities for years, but I haven’t made anything worth sharing yet. Now is the time to change that. The original idea for Project Shifter was to make an encyclopedia for a fantasy world in the style of Virtual Verduria, and that’s still part of the plan.
• Random stuff. I’m an engineering graduate currently working as a freelance ESL tutor in Mexico. I’ve dabbled in random things from songwriting to programming to home repairs, but really, I’m mostly just the type of person who would spend their free time watching video essays. In any case, I’ll be writing more about all of this.

Shoutout to my besties Astrid and Shay!

Updates

• 2021-11-17: Launched Project Shifter!