A little bit of bio.
Who the hell am i, and why did i come here?
Simply put, DIYsearch was David’s baby. He created it because he saw a need and wanted to create something useful. It got so big that he was spending hours a night on various code pushes and projects, looking for the best ways to go on with it. The breaking point came when it got hacked, leaving him not sleeping for a week while he struggled with moving to a different city, changing jobs, while looking into what happened and getting the whole site back up. It was either scrap years of work, keep going with only part functionality, or admit that it was no longer a single-person workload any more.
I’m the tech writer that he asked to come on board. (Yes, i’m also the other half of the band. Er, yes, and the new zine, which will be out in due time and won’t be a user-submission entity.) We were talking about his site one day, and discussing where he wanted to go with it. He’s been looking for a way to make it more user-oriented. That’s on the way. We had similar ideas but very different schemes for making it work, and we’re working together to take the best of each. I’m here because making it larger means making more work, and we both already have full time jobs. Asking David to take it all on by himself is asking rather a lot of someone who’s already putting his heart and soul into everything he does. (Plus, i wouldn’t mind having his help around the house once in awhile, and that means he needs just a bit of free time.)
I have my own DIY projects, my website (of course!) which is over at www.solemndragon.org, and i’ve been writing music for about eighteen years. I’ve got four half-finished books and a day job.
Hell, i offered to knit him a new website, but the whole “intarweb cosy” idea didn’t go over very well…