Welcome to WarpedVisions, my personal weblog and portfolio site.

Me? I’m Bruce Alderson, a software developer, writer, photographer, and artist. I enjoy life in all of its oddness and beauty, and especially including the weird and the wonderful. I believe that simplicity is possible in anything, where simple beauty is what we perceive when things fit just so. I also subscribe to the pragmatic, as simple beauty can be had by inching toward it failure by failure, where failure is really just a step toward success.

The weblog is a simple tumble of links, reviews, quotes, and essays — all aimed at learning the craft of software and life. It’s also home to a number of personal projects, creative endevours, HOWTOs, and reference materials¹.

Some history

This site has been happily hosted by Dreamhost for the last 10 years, and is currently powered by WordPress (and the letter Q).² For a brief visual history of the site, here’s a set of previous themes.

Other sites

I manage several other sites for fun and/or profit. The most interesting one at the moment is RobotPony, an irreverent, uber-geek web comic.

1. Most of my projects are to scratch my own itches ↩
2. Warped has also been built on Blossxom, Blogger, Slashcode, IRC bots, Jabber bots, random custom code, and other piles of code in the past ↩