About this site

Hello all, welcome to this website! If you're reading this you probably found it from my blog update, or I otherwise sent it to you somehow. Hi there.

This website is powered by Vercel, Github, Obsidian, and the Digital Garden Obsidian plugin. I have it setup so that I have a folder in my Obsidian Vault where I put all my notes that I want to be public and viewable in, and I publish them. Then, it automatically updates so that you all can view them.

This comes with some up sides and some down sides. What's cool about it is that it integrates into my workflow a lot better. I do a lot of things with my Obsidian vault. It's where I write my video scripts, it's where I collect all the ideas that I have, it's where I write my journal entries, I track and rate movies with it. Some of that I want to share with people, like the movie stuff and my completed writing projects, other things I want to keep private, so I think it's really cool that I can implement this website into that while having the ability to pick and choose what I'd like to put out there.

About Me

My name is Bryce (he/him), but my online username has been Bpt11 for pretty much the entirety of me being online. It came about once when my dad had bought Minecraft Java edition on our family computer for me, and he was helping me set up my account. I couldn't decide what to make my username so he just picked Bpt11 for me. Bpt is my initials, 11 was just a random number, I think I was like 8 or 9 at the time so it wasn't my age, I'm not sure why he picked that (2011 was maybe the year?), but it stuck and I still use it pretty much everywhere today.

I'm in my 20s, I live in an apartment with my wife and our two cats. I've recently been pursuing some more creative endeavors. I have two "big" projects I've been working on, a music blog called The Groove Grounds (Which is currently on an indefinite hiatus), and a YouTube channel. I'm pretty interested in a lot of different stuff. I love art of all different forms, I really enjoy writing, and I love learning about computers, Linux, FOSS, and indie web kind of stuff.

I had been thinking about making video essay style YouTube videos for a really really long time before I did it. I love video editing and working on projects like that, and the only reason I ever learned about it was because of my first YouTube channel that I started with one of my best friends when I was around 11 or 12 years old. We just played video games, the videos were not very good and I deleted all of them instead of archiving them for some reason, so they are lost to time forever now. I kinda regret that tremendously.

But, I always figured I'd end up back on YouTube. My channel description says "I make videos about things that I like" and I intend to keep that 100% true. I don't think I'll ever just dedicate to one specific topic forever, at the time of writing this my only video is about film and the one that I'm working on and releasing soon (hopefully) is about the Fediverse. Those are two very different topics but they're both just things that I like. I think that the video essay format is just a great way to talk about things that I have a lot to talk about, with no one except my poor wife to talk about it to. It's just a good outlet, and good practice for my video and writing skills.

I started The Groove Grounds as a class project in a digital marketing course I took. My instructor had everybody in the class start a "company" of sorts to practice the skills that we learned throughout the course. I started it as a music blog but I hope to someday turn it into a record / thrift store of some kind. My vision is to someday open a location that sells records new and old, buys used one, and also has booth rentals for creators to sell their goods, a kind of makers market thing. That would legitimately be a dream come true it would be so awesome.

But yeah, I guess that's a quick introduction to me and who I am, my hope is that you can learn a lot about me just by reading and exploring this website, or watching my videos, reading my blog, whatever I end up doing. I don't really have any specific kind of plan with this so we'll see what happens I guess. Thanks for reading!