57 Corners of the Internet: Where to Find Me (and Why I Bother)

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Here’s a confession from a guy who splits firewood for a living and runs a Bitcoin miner out of a shed in Union Bay: I am chronically curious about the internet. Not the big, loud part of it. The weird corners. The forums where twelve people have been arguing about one tractor carburetor since 2009. The places where somebody uploads a 3D-printable dinosaur at 2 a.m. just because they could.

Over the last while I’ve been planting a flag in a lot of those corners under one handle: strategicreset. The name stuck because that’s what this whole chapter has felt like. A reset. New projects, new tools, new rooms full of people who know way more than I do about something specific.

People keep asking where I actually am online. So instead of answering it fifty times, here’s the honest map, sorted by what I use each place for. Bookmark the ones that fit you and ignore the rest.

The quick-link hubs (start here)

If you just want one tap that leads everywhere, these are the front doors. They all point to roughly the same stuff, so pick whichever one you like the look of.

Where I talk out loud

Short-form thoughts, takes on crypto, and the occasional photo of an absurdly large woodpile.

  • Bluesky is where most of the day-to-day chatter lives now
  • GETTR
  • Pikabu (for my Russian-speaking readers, and for the memes)
  • Myspace. Yes, it still exists. Yes, I had to.

Writing, reading and learning

This is the bucket I’m proudest of. Long-form notes, things I’m studying, and books I’m working through. If you only follow me in one place, make it one of these.

Causes, crowdfunding and community

Places where people build real things with other people’s backing. I like watching what gets funded, and occasionally chipping in.

  • Experiment for crowdfunded science, which is wildly underrated
  • wemakeit for Swiss creative crowdfunding
  • CAMPFIRE, Japan’s biggest crowdfunding site
  • We Don’t Have Time. Funny one for a guy who mines Bitcoin, I know, but I’m interested in the energy conversation from both sides
  • Peatix for events and meetups
  • TM-Town, a translator community I lurk in

Pictures, sound and things you can hold

Photos from the Comox Valley, GIFs nobody asked for, and a growing collection of 3D prints.

Builders, coders and tinkerers

Running a mining rig and a crypto project means you either learn to build things or you pay someone forever. I chose learning.

  • LeetCode, where I practise problems and get humbled daily
  • Lovable for AI-assisted app builds
  • CRYENGINE for game-engine experiments
  • RPGMaker.net, because some of us never stopped wanting to make a 16-bit RPG

Gaming communities

Every hobby has a forum, and every forum has a guy who knows everything. These are the ones I hang around in.

The niche forums (my favourite rabbit holes)

These are the places that remind me why the internet was great in the first place: deeply specific, deeply helpful people.

Why bother being in so many places?

Fair question. It’s because good ideas rarely come from the room you’re already in. Some of the best advice I’ve had on cooling my miner came from a tractor forum. Some of the best design inspiration for the Caddy NFTs came from a 3D-printing site. Being a little bit everywhere means I get to borrow brilliance from people who’d never otherwise cross paths with a firewood guy from Vancouver Island.

If you’re on any of these, say hi. Follow, comment, argue with me about tractors. And if you want the main stuff, the projects and the writing, it all lives right here on kevinkatovic.com.