Darknoise is a personal site.
That sentence used to be considerably less unusual.
Before every corner of the Internet became a platform, a funnel, a personal brand, or somebody else’s algorithm, people made websites because they wanted a place that was theirs. This is mine.
ABOUT THE SIGNAL >_
Darknoise is the current incarnation of a personal site that has existed, in one form or another, for a very long time.
It is where I write about technology, AI, IT operations, leadership, culture, old Internet debris, music, things I’m building, and whatever else becomes loud enough that I need to put words around it.
There is no content strategy. No posting schedule. No carefully engineered personal brand.
Just signal, noise, and the occasional attempt to work out what the hell happened.
ABOUT ME >_
I’m Jared Friedman.
I’ve spent more than twenty years working in IT, from doing the work myself to building and leading teams responsible for making sure the work gets done. These days that means IT operations, service delivery, employee technology, automation, AI, and trying to prevent complicated systems from becoming complicated disasters.
I still believe leadership works better when you remember what it feels like to be the person staring at the broken thing.
Outside of work, there is music, writing, games, technology I absolutely did not need to buy, old pieces of the Internet I refuse to let die, and a persistent inability to leave well enough alone.
IRONJUDEN WAS HERE >_
Before Darknoise, there was Ironjuden.
Years of posts came with it when this site was rebuilt. Some are dated. Some contain dead links. Some preserve opinions I might phrase differently today. That is what an archive is supposed to do.
I could have cleaned all of that up, rewritten the embarrassing bits, and presented a much tidier version of the past.
Fuck that.
The old Internet was messy. People changed. Sites accumulated scars. The archive stays.
ELSEWHERE >_
You can see what I’m working on right now, dig through the projects, listen to the mix archive, or just send me a note.
The Internet still works better when people have their own weird little corners of it.