BREAKING
Seemed like this was the right place to share the news that Earthlink is down. Repeat, Earthlink is down. You're welcome, six to ten fellow Gen-X dorks.
Greg Pak Weblog
The weblog of gregpak.nexus
Latest posts
Reminder to self
Just a little reminder to self that posting angry statements on social media about the terrible things that terrible people are doing often generates a lot of other angry statements but not much in the way of politically effective action. I've always tried to prioritize posting actual factual action items (call your reps! donate to this org! go to this event! help this community group!), but…
Digital cleanup
Given the continuing collapse of social media, I finally deleted Instagram and Twitter over the past few days. Felt great! Also deleted Spoutible, Pinterest, Spore, Project Mushroom, Grainery, Vero, Artfol, and MySpace. Yes, MySpace was still kicking around. Now it's not! The immediate impulse was to disassociate myself from services controlled by far right ideologues. But I got into a kind of…
Rough day
Sending all the best to everyone who's struggling with it. It's a lot!
added an actual blog
I was talking about making barebones websites on Bluesky and a cool person recommended Bearblog.dev , and here we are. I had been updating the "blog" associated with gregpak.nexus entirely through handcoding, which was fun and goofy and satisfying. But Bearblog obviously makes blogging simpler and easier. I'm curious to see if this means I'm more or less interested in updating the blog here. There…
Updated my main site
Got inspired by the simplicity of this site and updated my main gregpak.com website to devolve it a bit in a good way, ha ha! It's simpler and better now. With a touch of 1990s goofiness. Wrote about it here . I also finally updated my work newsletter to Buttondown, which is very nice. Feel free to subscribe here !
oh not much
oh not much just taking care of work and life responsibilities while stealing time on the side to handcode little tweaks and improvements to my various websites as a coping mechanism to help sustain a sense of rules and control in a chaotic world lol how about you
Got a working web ring! And Preeti's blogging!
It's hard to express how pleased I am by the fact that we've got a WORKING WEB RING going here! I used the free code provided by the fine folks at Garlic.garden , tweaked it for aesthetics, and gosh, it works. Back in the day I remember being on a few webrings and they were wonky and unreliable even then, so to have one actually functioning as promised here in 2025? Glorious. If you've got a retro…
Why I Deleted Threads
Meta vomited out a terrible new anti-LGBQT "moderation" policy, so I deleted Threads. Here's a bigger write up of the what and why.
CRUEL KINGDOM #1 hit comic shops yesterday!
The anthology comic book includes a story called "Blood of the Robo King" written by yours truly with art by Leomacs and colors by Inaki Azpiazu and letters by Richard Starkings and Tyler Smith. My Kind of Weird says it's awesome and you can ask your local comic shop to hold a copy for you today!