welcome to my website. i'm happy you've stumbled upon this little grove of cyberspace. my name is gabe4riel, and I am gabe, for real! this is my website, i can do whatever i desire with it and that's pretty cool.
as i mentioned above, my name is gabe. i am a male, near 30 year old currently living in the mitten state in the united states. i currently work in marketing as a more generalist, which means that i wear many hats that has me dipping my toes into social media marketing in the form of short form videos, seo, e-commerce website management via crm, email marketing & digital advertising. i have education in web design, user exerience design & graphic design. in my free time, i enjoy playing video games, listening to music, building pcs, learning linux, exploring self-hosting, and finding ways to mix my hobbies, passions & skill sets into fun projects for myself. currently, i find myself really drawn rejecting overally corporatized web spaces, and instead exploring more independent and personalized experineces as well as building my own.
currently, there is no dedicated purpose beyond providing myself with a space on the web that is nearly entirely my own. yes, this is hosted on neocities, so we're not quite there yet, but my hopes at some point in the future is to explore self-hosting options because that's fun for me. but i don't want the lack of completion on that project to prevent me from just starting this one, thus neocities. so, what will i put here? mostly a collection of my thoughts for the time being; a space for me to refine my thoughts to publish, regardless of if they're read by others or not. it's a space where i can say, yes, this is a refined, polished and complete thought or experience. or maybe not too! maybe there will be raw, incomplete, and mid-process concepts shared too. i don't really know currently what shape or form this space will take for myself, but i want it here and i want to start.