Back in the 90’s when we built websites we would often put “under construction” banners and GIFS on pages we were still building. This Lemmings one was one of my favorites. (Tai’shar to whomever archived these from Geocities.)

Lemmings was also one of my favorite computer games growing up. Little characters (more like Fraggles than real life lemmings) would pour out of a trap door and you’d try to usher as many as possible safely to the exit. Each Lemming could have a job like digging or building or blocking unsafe areas.

So this little banner of Lemmings building a Coming Soon sign is super nostalgic.

Over the last week my website has been “under construction” as I move from Squarespace to WordPress. By the time you’re seeing this the dust may have settled, but right now my domain name is in limbo. My site is kind of working, but my email is not. My shop is down. And I haven’t worked out all the design details the way I want.

Last year I orbited closer and closer to old school blogging. I started a digital garden with Obsidian and tried the micro.blog platform. They were an easy entry, but I realized more and more I wanted my own blog and I wanted more control than any of those platforms gave me.

So here I am.

Bringing my various dragons home to roost.

My intention is to carve out a space here to share the types of things that I used to post on social media.

To own my archive.

And do my best to future proof what I’m creating.

If you’re doing the same I’d love to hear from you.

Shoutout to GifCities of Internet Archive for the 90s style gifs.