What is Everythings Better With Brentter?

This websites name is Everythings Better With Brentter. It’s been hosted here on brentter.com for over twenty years by me, Brent Terrazas. I bought brentter.com on November 19th, 2004 and have owned it ever since. Believe it or not this was actually the second domain (out of 100+ since) that I’d own. My day job back then was in advertising so it made sense for me to write about the industry as I’d been constantly writing online for years at that point. I loved it, and because of that I ended up writing A LOT on here and other advertising industry sites. This website would even become one of the top 20 ranked advertising blogs at one time but somewhere along the way my day job turned into two jobs and then creating content for this site felt like it was becoming a third. It eventually led to me deciding that I needed a change in my life and the best way to do that was to take a break from writing. With that in mind I did what any normal mid-twenty-something kid would do and I disabled comments site-wide then promptly signed up for an adult kickball league with some friends. I loved it.

6 months of no posts and I eventually gave it one last entry. It was about what I had just finished doing for a client. I had been writing up a bunch of SQL queries to bulk-edit a few thousand of his WordPress pages so that he wouldn’t have to go through and edit them one by one. Then about a year or so later I decided to just take it offline. The DB was actually still there, just I’d removed all the static files and replaced the homepage with some ASCII. This site was running WordPress and at that time the platform was just a security nightmare, especially if you weren’t actively monitoring it. I mean, it still is a security nightmare. If you’ve been keeping up with what’s been going on between the co-creator of Wordpress and WP Engine you’d also think the entire future of the platform seems like a nightmare too.

So You’re Going To Start Posting Advertising Commercials Again?

Well, maybe a few, but just some of my old favorites. With all the toxicity that now seems to be everywhere online I think we should all try to remember what it was like in the early days. Back when you were guaranteed at least a dozen AOL cds in the mail each week and AltaVista was the largest search engine. You’d go around and find sites that were there to share content with other people without looking for a marketing angle. You’d find their favorite blogrolls and web-rings, collections of stories or cool animated gifs - just sharing for the sake of sharing. I like that idea so I’m going to follow it.

How’s Hugo?

So far I’ve been enjoying working with Hugo. They really weren’t kidding when they talk about just how fast it is. The only downsides have been in the template system and how janky it can be at times and that every big update to Hugo means something important in the blog is going to break. It’s a work in progress.

Cheers,

~Brent
Everythings Better With Brentter

(Here’s a few spots where I can be found elsewhere on the web):