HisVirusness

Pronouns: he/him

HisVirusness is someone who would never steal someone else's mail, and he's frankly hurt that you would even accuse him of such.

https://HisVirusness.com/

HisVirusness

Introduction

Hi, I'm Paul, and I'm an al... wait, wrong context.

My name is Paul Mason: graphic artist, writer, tinkerer, and fervent Linux fanatic. For the last ~12 years, I've been making stuff under the name HisVirusness. If you've ever been on a sketchy website that has a collection of desktop wallpapers available for download, odds are you've seen my work before.

I run HisVirusness.com, a hand-coded site featuring (most of) those aforementioned things, and then some! Mostly stories about mentally ill PIs and posts whining about Batman movies. With more to follow!

Why The Name?

Good question, hypothetical person. Long story short, it's derived from a nickname I got while doing stand-up comedy in Chicago during the early 2010's. Perhaps someday, I'll go into further detail.

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Interest In IndieWeb

The Internet has gotten too small, and the general public knows it. I once had a stranger, with full conviction, tell me you couldn't create a website without a license from either Amazon or Google. After I told this person that you could literally create a web server in your own home, they cut me off with, "No, that's the darkweb; that's how you get FBI raids."

It's both hilarious and infuriating at the same time. Don't get me wrong: I love social media, and I love YouTube (so much so, that I pay money for YouTube Premium), but the proliferation of these services has boiled the modern Internet down to just a handful of websites. As someone who has been online for more than a quarter of a century, it saddens and frightens me. Your content should be yours. And, if displaying said-content happens to also show off your sweet design and coding skills, even better!

I'll, uh, put my soapbox away now.

Da Clicky-Bits

Website: https://HisVirusness.com/
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@HisVirusness
GitHub: https://github.com/HisVirusness
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/HisVirusness.com