A new beginning
I talk through some of the complications in the past, and why I've settled on finally talking about things I'm interested in, not under a screen name
Published May 30, 2026
Did anyone else grow up always being told, don't tell people who you are on the internet? It's a good thing to stand by, but in todays world, it comes in direct conflict with the absurd conversations we're having online these days, without any idea if the person on the other end is real.
For my entire life I've always ran things under a screen name. Rather than bettering myself and my own identity. Everything goes via a handle, or a brand. For example my creator username Brawhammer, and my brand attempt with LochKeys.
While I'm keeping Brawhammer as a general screen name online (I think it's cool) LochKeys is being shuttered. And so is any attempt at "building" things under kept at arms length processes. I'll still be creating gaming/tech related content on Brawhammer because it's my most favourite hobby. But anything outside of that will be under me personally.
It's a vulnerability thing I think. I can't fail with projects, the brand can fail. Bringing things more directly under myself is more exposing, but it also allows me to fail faster, move on and learn from the experience.
Security Concerns
One of the main reasons I'm now shuttering projects rather than just keeping them active is the sheer volume right now of attempts to crack into systems, mostly being delivered by AI just endlessly prodding until it finds a gap, all of which is great for patching bugs. Not great for me who's trying to just build and do my own thing. So I could keep my old projects up, but it stands to reason that I could be on holiday one day, a 0 day is released, and I'm getting my entire server rooted because of one side project that never amounted to anything.
Current Projects
Everything I'm working on right now, will probably change in a few months, feel free to read more latest posts to see what's going on. As of now, this is the list.
GLP (Gaming Landing Pages)
Ironically, it's what is powering this site today. I created GLP for the brawhammer.com domain but then figured I could just create a new theme for this site rather than fork the codebase. It works pretty well.
GLP is a product you can purchase. If you want a CRM to write your thoughts and have your content creator/portfolio setup, give me a message and I'll work out a quote for ya.
TuxPapers
A Linux project dedicated to allowing people to easily change their wallpaper. This isn't live yet on steam, but I'm hoping to get there.
Cullen
An iOS app dedicated to cleaning up your media library.
TheAccountabilityHub
This is actually for my own record keeping. You cannot keep up to date with EVERY political event that happens these days. The zone has been well and truly flooded. So I have an archive where I post my political thoughts and try keep people accountable. So for example if a politician says something, then they say they didn't. I have a pretty simple way of recording that "Claim/Event" and then assigning evidence that proves/disproves it. I actually enjoy the record keeping. Helps whenever I'm talking politics too and I can just.... bring it up all in one place.
Past Projects
StreamBit.TV
I've been working on a Streaming and VOD platform since 2018. It at one point was completely fully featured using Laravel 5 as the framework. Since then it's undergone about 70 upgrades. From being pivoted to InertiaJS wth Vue, to back to Livewire 4 with Laravel 13 & FilamentPHP. That is now being archived. Why? Because I haven't streamed in about 6 years. I've had a wife, and a child since then, who is just about to start school! I didn't even know you could multi-stream in OBS these days!
My fire is burning eternally for the services we the people have been given. Twitch I think is completely high-school-esque with it's unprofessional moderation. I think Kick is completely degeneate, YouTube is a platform that I just can't like, I've had an account frozen since 2011 that I can't access because I can't get a hold of anyone at youtube support. And all the other ones seem to be just complete scams or schemes to funnel you into some kind of service.
While it's great to have passion for a project, hatred fueling it alone isn't great. And nor is it a solid business strategy. I've always said that StreamBit.tv is a project that would close if anyone actually used it. The financials of running your own CDN are batshit, the financials for using someone elses CDN is even more batshit. It's unviable unless you have either peer to peer infra, or a bank account that expects you monetizing in some way.