Hello!
Welcome to Heart Soul Machine! ❤️ 🔥 ⚙️ is the presonal site for me, Tim Klapdor. It's an attempt to create a Domain Of Ones Own, to house and collect my digital self.
This is a work in progress and personal project to bring together my work over the years into one place. I'm also planning to use this site to adopt a POSSE (Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere) workflow.
Over the next few months I'll be publishing new blog posts and micro-blogs here, and beginning to build out an Evergreen Notes section as a shortcut to some of the reference points in my work and thinking.
Latest Posts
I lack style
I realised that I lacked a positive routine after the bottom had fallen out. Some thoughts about constraints in a positive way to create a routine and style for living.
September 2024
A busy month with a couple of new and refreshed websites, a workshop and a very welcomed friend is now living in Adelaide.
The Name
The name was inspired by the lyrics of a death 'n' roll band. The idea of Heart and Soul and those human attributes were a nice contrast to the technology I was working with on a day-to-day basis — the Machines. I was setting up on Wordpress.com back in 2011 to record an upcoming trip to the United States and I first used the name there. I wanted a way to record the trip, make notes, collect ideas and express opinions. Heart Soul Machine summed up that I wanted to use the blog to openly record what makes me tick and my commentary on technology. That has now evolved into this space - something I have a bit more control over and can hopefully more fully