Hi, my name's Andy Baio. I'm a writer and coder living in Portland, Oregon. You might know me from my blog, Waxy.org, where I've written for 25 years about the internet. If you've never heard of it, I rounded up some of the highlights from my first decade of blogging in 2012, and the second decade in 2022. You may also know me from some of my other projects? I ran the XOXO festival in Portland for 12 years from 2012 to 2024, launched (and relaunched) the events community Upcoming.org, and I helped build Kickstarter as a long-time advisor and their first CTO. Along the way, I coined the term "supercut," produced a chiptune tribute to Miles Davis's Kind of Blue, and got threatened with lawsuits a bunch of times. (I did some other stuff, too.) These days, I'm mostly helping my wife Ami with her game design studio, Pink Tiger Games. We've self-published seven conversational party games since 2017, with three more slated for later this year. Before I started Waxy.org, I mostly sent links via instant messenger to my friends who had blogs. I knew I was good at finding things online, and after the umpteenth friend told me to start my own blog, I finally did. I wanted a place of my own online, somewhere to experiment and write about weird corners of internet culture, online community, and copyright, as well as a sandbox for new experimental projects of my own. By the time I launched Waxy in April 2002, I felt like I was late to the blogging trend, which in hindsight, seems ridiculous. I was still pretty early, as it turns out. Within a year, I'd been interviewed by the New York Times and other major papers dozens of times for news stories I'd either broken or somehow found myself tangled up in.