wedgi.us is the online home of Wyatt Gallagher since 2004.
History
While I’ve had a personal website of some sort since 1996, by the spring of 2003 I decided I needed a blog. Blogs were the new hotness; if you wanted to be cool1, you needed a blog, and I badly wanted to be cool.
The only domain I had was from my attempt at making a virtual airline, and the hosting I asked my parents to pay for was IIS-based and didn’t support PHP, so I rolled my own basic CMS and built my first blog, “wedge: the portfolio.” The earliest post I have backed up is from June 16, 2003.
In April 2004, I (my parents) bought wedgi.us, found a host with PHP support, and moved everything over to this newly-forked CMS called W*******s. Over the years, as I got more srs bzns, I focused the site more on the portfolio aspect and let the blog lapse into hiatus and very occasional use…until now. Yes, I started this as both my blog and my portfolio, and now we have come full circle.
Whatever form the site has taken I’ve always approached it with a sense of experimentation. Especially since I passed on the whole “unicorn” thing and committed to design professionally, working on this is how I stay up to date with the latest in Web front-end technologies.
As I write this, it’s early 2025, and I’ve abandoned most corporate-owned social media. The urge to share remains: what I care about, what I’m working on, what I find interesting. I also have work-related things to share: what I’ve done before, what I’m doing next, and services I can provide. All of these are different parts of who I am, and they all contribute to one another; so instead of trying to keep them all separated, I’m rebuilding my home here.
Typography
This website is set in Public Sans, a project of the United States government in slightly better times, itself derived from Libre Franklin.
Technology
This website is built on top of W*******s.2 I’ve used this CMS on and off since 2004, shortly after it was forked from b2/cafelog. Hit me up if you have a favorite alternative; bonus if it’s also written in PHP and doesn’t require certifications to manage.
This website is federated. You can find its feed at @blog@wedgi.us.
Trademarks
Any other trademarks displayed on this website are the property of their respective owners. Their use here is for historical reference only and does not constitute endorsement by or of Wyatt Gallagher.