About TechInform

There are some projects you start, and then there are some projects that kind of follow you through life.

TechInform has been one of those for me.

If you’re new here, or just don’t know the full story, TechInform didn’t originally start with me. It launched back in 2010 when Ryan created it with some friends as a companion to his tech YouTube channel. In the beginning, it was a simple tech blog — the kind of site built more on passion than polish. Over the years, it had some genuinely great runs, some slower stretches, and a few periods where, if I’m being honest, basically nobody posted anything at all.

That’s part of why TechInform means so much to me. It has never really been a perfect, always-on machine. It has always felt like a real site built by real people with real lives. Because of that, it had highs, lows, restarts, long pauses, and weird little comeback moments in between.

My History With It

My connection to TechInform goes way back too. I first heard about it through my former business partner, who was writing for the site sometime around the 2011 to 2012 era. Not long after that, I joined the TechInform team for a few months and helped drag the site into a more modern age.

At the time, that meant doing a big WordPress update, getting access to the email account back after the previous web developer basically held it hostage, and even helping host the first-ever TechInform livestream.

Big tech energy for 2011, honestly.

Then life happened. I was in high school. I got busy. Pretty much everybody else involved with the site got busy too. TechInform never fully disappeared, but it definitely slowed down. Some years it got a couple posts. Some years it felt more like a digital time capsule than an active publication.

And yet somehow, it never fully died.

The Long Road Back

Around 2018 or so, Brad stepped in as editor-in-chief. Ryan still owned the site, but Brad and a few other people helped bring it back for a while. There was real effort there, and for a bit, TechInform had momentum again.

But tech blogs are hard. They take consistency, time, energy, and a weird amount of stubbornness. So once again, the site eventually went quiet.

Through all of that, Ryan deserves a lot of credit, because even when TechInform wasn’t active, he kept paying the bills and kept the site online. That matters more than people realize. Plenty of old sites just vanish completely. TechInform didn’t.

I actually tried to buy the site in 2022, but Ryan wasn’t ready to sell yet. Fair enough. Then in 2025, I reached out again. This time, things lined up, and he sold it to me and my former business partner.

After all those years around TechInform, it was finally mine.

Well… sort of.

At that point, TechInform became part of the last company I was a part-owner in. Then a few months later, a lot changed. I started a new company for my web projects: Glupe Media Group LLC. After that, Glupe purchased TechInform from my prior company. Not long after that, I also made the decision to part ways with that company entirely and sell my ownership in it.

I needed a reset. A clean break. A chance to build new things the way I wanted to build them.

Thankfully, I was able to bring TechInform with me.

What TechInform Is Now

Right now, TechInform is me.

Maybe one day it expands into more than that. Maybe one day there are more writers, more contributors, more people involved. But at this moment, everything on this site comes through me. Every post, every update, every design tweak, every experiment — it’s all me.

That’s part of what makes this version feel different. This isn’t just another attempt to revive an old blog for the sake of nostalgia. This is me rebuilding something I’ve had a connection to for years and finally shaping it into something that feels like it has a real future.

I also want to be honest about what the site is and what it isn’t. I can’t promise daily content right now, and I don’t want to pretend this is some giant always-on media machine. TechInform is in an experimental phase. Content will come and go. Some stretches will be busier than others. Formats may change. Not everything will always be strictly tech in the narrowest sense.

The point is not to force content for the sake of activity. The point is to cover the stuff that actually feels interesting, worth talking about, or worth sharing.

What TechInform 5.0 Means To Me

TechInform 5.0 is more than just a visual refresh. It’s the first version of the site that really feels like it has a proper long-term home.

This isn’t just another theme swap or a quick redesign to make an old setup feel slightly newer. It’s a fully custom-built site. That matters to me, because it gives TechInform room to grow without being boxed into someone else’s platform decisions or old limitations.

It means I can build the site around what TechInform actually wants to be now, not what it used to be forced to be.

More than anything, it means TechInform can finally feel like a living project again instead of an archive that occasionally wakes up.

How I Use AI Here

AI is one of the most interesting things happening in tech right now, and it’s something I’m genuinely fascinated by. So yes, AI does play a role in this site.

It helped with parts of building the site. It helps me with writing. I’m not a professional writer, and I’m not embarrassed to admit that I use AI to help make my ideas sound better, cleaner, and more readable.

But I also want to be very clear about something: I do not want this place to become AI slop.

The ideas are mine. The opinions are mine. The direction is mine. The thoughts behind the posts are mine. AI is here to help polish what I’m trying to say, not replace me, not invent the point of view, and not crank out empty content just for the sake of posting.

I see it as a tool — the same way editing software, cameras, design tools, or publishing tools are all tools. It can help make the end result better, but it is not supposed to become the actual voice of TechInform.

Where Things Are Going

I’m excited about where TechInform can go from here. Written content is a big part of it, but video is part of the future too. In a weird way, that feels right, because TechInform originally started as a companion to video in the first place.

I want this site to feel hands-on, curious, a little opinionated, and actually excited about the stuff it covers. Not just content for content’s sake. Not chasing every headline. Just covering the things that stand out and the things that spark curiosity.

And honestly, the timing feels pretty good. Tech finally feels interesting again. There’s new hardware, new ideas, new things to dig into, and that makes this relaunch feel like it’s happening at exactly the right moment.

Final Thought

On a personal level, bringing TechInform back for real has been a little surreal.

It has existed in the background of my life for years — first as something I heard about, then something I contributed to, then something I helped modernize, then something I wanted to own, and finally something I actually got the chance to bring back under my own company.

Now it’s here, under Glupe Media Group LLC, on a custom-built platform, with a clean slate and a real future.

That feels really good.

The best part is simple: after all these years, TechInform finally feels alive again.