I've been tentatively excited about the opening of HEY World to paying HEY customers ever since I first read on Hacker News that Basecamp was experimenting internally with the service. In fact, I even tried sending an email to world@hey.com before it was officially open, just to show interest. But now that it's here, I must now decide how to use it.

I have a blog of my own that I recently revived with self-hosted WordPress after years wasted experimenting with static site generators like Jekyll, Pelican, and Hugo and experiments in static site generation using BSD-style makefiles, shell scripts (to build RSS feeds), and m4 macros (to build web pages). I probably sharpened my Unix skills, but I didn't get much writing done. I also have social media accounts on the Fediverse and SpaceHey.

So, what will I do with HEY World?

Of course, all of my fiction will be clearly marked as such, since the stuff I write is mostly for readers 18 and over.

Anything else I post should be taken as strictly my own opinion, and not representative of my employer or their clients.

Before any of that, however, I should probably introduce myself. I'm a long-haired metalhead from New York, a college dropout who codes for a living.

I write science fantasy on my lunch breaks, after work, and on weekends. It probably won't win any literary awards since it started out as a gnarly pastiche created by an edgy college student with undiagnosed autism who had OD'ed on 1990s JRPGs like Final Fantasy, Megami Tensei, and Phantasy Star, fiction by Michael Moorcock and Roger Zelazny, and music by Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, King Diamond, Type O Negative, Queensrÿche, and the Blue Öyster Cult.

I might be a middle-aged enby now, but I still have my old edgelord tendencies. I just try to use them constructively.

Matthew Graybosch
https://matthewgraybosch.com
"Even in the future nothing works."