erichamiter.com

I made the decision a while ago to move all of my nerdy-tech stuff from a little web site called roachfiend.com to this one. I’m a big fan of simple, easy, one-place-for-all types of things. The way I have it now is just a total mess. So, this is just my own version of a warning label I’m sticking in the ether to let you know that there’s going to be an influx of nerdy posts arriving in probably short order. I think that I’m just going to host the actual files on Firefox’s site, though, and not here.

This was a tricky and hard thing to do. Let’s be honest, here. I enjoy money. I like to spend it, I like to receive it. Maybe that makes me materialistic. So, having all of my extensions on my own personal board was quite a draw- if you wanted BugMeNot, you had to come to my site. If you wanted ListZilla, you had to come to my site. You get the idea. Once you gather, say, two thousand people together on a web page- at least a couple of them will click on a link either out of curiosity, out of interest, or out of benevolent well-being. Moving all of these magnets onto a third-party site effectively removes these financial possibilities.

I think it’s time to let them go, though. They are open-source, after all, and I’d like to see them spread their wings and seek out larger audiences. I also tire of updating multiple extensions on multiple places, so perhaps giving them all one centralized home that doesn’t have to depend on my meager bandwidth is a more responsible thing to do. It also allows them to be updated and installed securely.

Back to moving. I will soon have basically all of my content switched over to here- some for historical sake, such as how to create Firefox extensions (which is slowly becoming outdated, but I genuinely think that it’s still useful and a good starting point for those who want to know more about it) and a few other random tutorials. I plan on having each individual extension ported over here also, but they will link to Firefox’s add on site for the actual installation file. I’ll just have the descriptions, screen shots, and so forth here.

So, like I said, this has been a slow, deliberate move, like a very determined sloth who has been set on fire. I also want to have a space that I can just write whatever the hell I want, and not be limited to Firefox extensions and “random technological tidbits.” I think I have a few interesting things to say. Well, I guess that’s subjective. Only time will tell, I suppose.