sysop@localhost:~$ cat welcome.text
Welcome to my corner of the internet. It is personal, slightly cluttered, and built without a committee deciding whether the buttons feel sufficiently disruptive.
This is where I post whatever survives the trip from my brain to the keyboard: old technology, useless experiments, geocaching, dogs, punk music, daily life, and occasional complaints about modern civilization.
No algorithm. No engagement strategy. No dancing for strangers in portrait video. Just a website, the way the internet used to work before everything became an advertisement wearing human skin.
sysop@localhost:~$ ls -lt /var/log/eric/
- Midwest Geobash 2026
- Some People Never Change
- Ran Into My Ex
- I’ve Been Running On Fumes Lately.
- The Future in Their Hands?
sysop@localhost:~$ find ~/projects -maxdepth 1 -type d
- PROJECT: PERSONAL_SITESTATE: ACTIVE
ericfoltin.com
My main website. Writing, experiments, status updates, and the usual digital debris collected by somebody who remembers dial-up.
- PROJECT: WORDPRESSSTATE: PERPETUAL_TINKERING
WordPress Experiments
Custom plugins, terminal themes, shortcodes, feed readers, and CSS fixes required because themes apparently enjoy hiding simple settings behind forty-seven layers of nonsense.
- PROJECT: GEOCACHINGSTATE: OUTDOORS
Geocaching Logs
Thousands of finds, road trips, suspicious containers, muddy shoes, and the occasional bush that fights back.
sysop@localhost:~$ find ~/whois_sysop
Eric is a Gen X technology junkie living in Eastern Ohio. He works as a Meals on Wheels driver for Senior Services of Belmont County, helping people instead of sitting through meetings about helping people.
He likes old computers, terminal interfaces, WordPress, RSS, geocaching, road trips, dogs, campfires, and punk music from the years when punk still sounded irritated.
Favorite bands include Pennywise, The Lillingtons, Misfits, and Henry Rollins. The soundtrack is loud, the interface is monochrome, and the tolerance for pointless corporate language is critically low.
sysop@localhost:~$ open communication.protocol
Electronic communication is available through the channels below. Replies may be delayed by work, dogs, geocaching, sleep, or a complete lack of enthusiasm for notifications.
EMAIL @ericfoltin@gmail.com
MASTODON @foltine@mastodon.social
BLUESKY @ericfoltin.bsky.social
STATUS status.cafe/users/ericfoltin
RSS ericfoltin.com/feed/
sysop@localhost:~$ status.txt
sysop@localhost:~$ status_info
USER: ERIC
ROLE: SYSOP
OS: GEN_X
SHELL: /BIN/SARCASM
EDITOR: WHATEVER_WORKS
UPTIME: 28D 21H 30M
MOOD: FUNCTIONAL
CAFFEINE:REQUIRED
sysop@localhost:~$ nodes.txt
/usr/share/rebuildingrob
/usr/share/danq
/usr/share/joelchrono