Welcome to my website

If you're reading this then you're viewing a website hosted on a Synology NAS stuck in up in my loft, running a piece of software called Kiki.

There are a lot of reasons why you wouldn't want to do this, many of them very good ones. But there are also some pretty good reasons why I wanted to do it. And in this section of the website I'm going to run through those reasons and give you my thoughts on the whole self-hosted Kiki experience.

I'll also attempt to write a how-to guide for anyone else who would like to give it a try. Throughout all of this, please bear in mind that this is basically me:

I'm happy for people to ask me questions about this set up, but please don't be surprised if my best response is "I dunno". I'm mostly just fumbling around in the dark, being constantly surprised that any of this is actually working.

Onto the Next Section: Why Kiki?

I've been increasingly interested in the 'indie-web' scene over the years. As Big Tech has started to become an enabler of fascism, I've become drawn more and more to internet and software projects made by small teams of good people. People who just want to make useful things and share them with others.

I think Kiki was first re-posted into my Mastodon timeline by Adam Newbold, the creator of omg.lol.