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February 2026
January 2026
- To Continue with Hope · #personal essay #politics #reflection
- The Artist's Treadmill: Escaping the Scope Creep of Our Creative Lives · #creativity #art #media criticism #philosophy
- A Beginner's Guide to the IndieWeb for Writers Who Don't Code (But Maybe Want to a Little) · 1 comment · #personal essay #indieweb #writing #community #blogging #Digital Culture
- Announcing Fireweed Writing School · #personal essay #Creative Process #Writing Process #community #education
- The Final Coding Bootcamp: A Eulogy for Lighthouse Labs · #personal essay #Social Commentary #technical #political #Digital Culture
- More Than One Way: On Ritual, Morality, and the Darkness Beyond Knowing · #Philosophy #Anthropology #Spirituality #Cultural Analysis
- Creating an Alphabetical Tag Page feat. Nunjucks Pitfalls · #Web Development #Eleventy #Nunjucks #Technical
- twtxt: Simple, Decentralized Microblogging with status.lol · #IndieWeb #Microblogging #Decentralized #Technical
- How You Can Support Indie Creators—and You Need To · #Creator Economy #Digital Culture #community #cultural commentary #indieweb
- The Pandemic Never Ended. We Only Pretend it Did · #Chronic Illness #Medical Ethics #covid #cultural commentary #political
- Computing for the Apocalypse · #docker #homesteading #technical
- REVIEW: Light Joy Writing, On Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic · #personal essay #review #creative #philosophy
- What I Have Learned Being on the IndieWeb for a Month · #personal essay #community #Digital Culture #indieweb #technical
- Posting to Your Static Site with Quill and Micropub · 1 comment · #eleventy #indieweb #netlify #technical #tutorial
- Respecting the No-JS Choice: Making Your Site Work for Everyone · 1 comment · #css #eleventy #javascript #technical #accessibility
- Greenland Belongs to the Inuit · #indigenous #personal essay #political #cultural commentary
- From 65 to 83: Attempts at Performance Optimization · #css #eleventy #javascript #technical
- Extending the Post Graph Plugin: Adding Clickable Links and Tooltips · #eleventy #javascript #technical
- Resources for the Personal Web: A Follow-Up Guide · 1 comment · #blogging #directories #indieweb #publishing #technical
- Building an IndieAuth Comment System for Your Static Site · 9 comments · #eleventy #indieweb #javascript #netlify #technical #tutorial
- REVIEW: How do we reckon? On Yiyun Li's 'Things in Nature Merely Grow' · #Mental Health #cultural commentary #personal essay #philosophy #review #suicide
- How Can We Use the Internet for Good? · #creative #indieweb #philosophy #political
- How a Taylor Swift Lyric Gave Me an Existential Crisis · #creative #cultural commentary #philosophy #music
- auld lang syne: The Commonplace (micro)Log · #eleventy #personal essay #technical #tutorial
- Deploying An Eleventy Site to NeoCities with GitLab CI/CD · #cicd #eleventy #indieweb #neocities #technical #tutorial
December 2025
- Why I'm not a Full-stack Dev · #internet #technical
- To Dance is to Live · #creative #personal essay #philosophy #spirituality
- Building brennan.day Part One: Design, Rainbows, and Accessibility · #eleventy #indieweb #personal site #technical
- What Can We Give One Another? On Public Domain, Preservation, and Living Without Copyright · #copyright #cultural commentary #preservation #public domain
- Thoughts on Digital Third Spaces · #community #cultural commentary #indieweb #philosophy
- Do It Ugly: On Bad Art and Civic Duty · #creative #personal essay #art #philosophy
- Choosing Quiet: I'm No Longer Using AI Editors · #ai #creative #political
- Bring Back the 90's Guestbook with JAMstack: How I Added Dynamic Comments to My Static 11ty Site · #netlify #technical #tutorial
- Building an Independent Literary Publication in 2025 · #creative #publishing #technical
- Why Start Again? On Cycles, Beginnings, and the Art of Returning · #creative #learning #meta #spirituality
- Dawn of a New Day, Dawn of a New Year · #indieweb #meta
- Worse than Wrestling with God · #technical
- Getting Things Up and Running · #meta #projects
- Time to Fun Blog · #creative #spirituality #blogging
- omg.lol is the Internet We Need Right Now · #blogging #internet #technical #indieweb
- Are NSFW AI Companions Actually Just Exploited Workers in Developing Countries? · #Digital Culture #Media Analysis #Social Commentary #technical #ai
- Hello World! · 2 comments · #meta #personal essay
- The Only Real Sport · #personal essay #Cultural Criticism #Media Analysis #sport
- No, Smiling Friends WON’T Become the Next Rick and Morty · #personal essay #Cultural Criticism #Media Analysis
- 10 Ways to Write Like the 90’s · #personal essay #Cultural Criticism #Digital Culture #Writing Process
- I Started Listening To Justin Vernon In Grade School. Now, He’s Retiring As I Turn 30. · #personal essay #music
- What does it mean to be a good editor? · #personal essay #Writing Process #publishing
- Fandom is Awesome. Furries are Awesome. Bronies are Awesome. Cringe is Awesome. Fuck You. · #personal essay #community #Cultural Criticism #Digital Culture
- Move to a Better Internet in 2026. · #personal essay #Digital Culture #Social Media #technical #medium #indieweb
- You will never do anything productive or meaningful with your life. · #personal essay #philosophy #productivity
November 2025
- The Three Times the World Nearly Ended · #personal essay #political #History
- I wrote two dozen articles on Medium in November. It made me a living wage. · #personal essay #medium #productivity #publishing
- Tough, but Fair: How to Elevate Your Craft from Blogging to Literary Journalism · #Literary Journalism #personal essay #Writing Process #publishing
- Steal My Work · #personal essay #Creative Process #Writing Process
- THE ART OF THE MICROESSAY · #personal essay #Creative Writing #Writing Process
- We’ve Known About Thomas King for Over Ten Years. · #Academic Writing #Indigenous Writing #Social Justice #Literature #media criticism #political
- Did Joan Westenberg memoryhole Web3 NFTs? · #Digital Culture #media criticism #political #technical #medium
- The Misdirection · #personal essay #Writing Process #political
- A Love Letter to Public Transit · #personal essay #community #Social Commentary #Urban Planning
- Community Will Save Your Life · #personal essay #community #Mental Health #Social Commentary
- My Best Advice for Medium Writers with No Followers · #personal essay #Writing Process #medium #publishing
- THE INERTIA EFFECT: Stop Optimizing · #personal essay #productivity
- Your Civic Duty to Make Art · #personal essay #community #Creative Process #Social Commentary #political
- Gen-Z love dumb phones, the analog, e-ink screens, slow living, community, and longform work. · #personal essay #Cultural Criticism #Digital Culture #Analog Living #Digital Minimalism
- How to Rewild Your Writing Practice · #personal essay #Creative Process #Writing Process #academic writing
- Lovebombing, Psychosis, and Murder. · #personal essay #Mental Health #ai
- BoJack and the Temptation of Suicide · #personal essay #Media Analysis #Mental Health #suicide
- …How the Hell do I Find Good Creators? · #personal essay #Digital Culture #Curation #Social Media
- In Defence of Rupi Kaur · #Cultural Criticism #media criticism #Literature #Poetry
- THE COMPASSION ECONOMY · #community #political #Social Commentary #Social Justice #Economics
- When We Get Blackheart · #personal essay #Creative Process #Media Analysis #Literature
- The Piss Average Problem · #personal essay #Creative Writing #Cultural Criticism #Media Analysis #ai
- Witnessing Palestine & the United States · #media criticism #political #Social Justice #palestine
- The Current State of the Internet should TERRIFY You · #Digital Culture #Social Commentary #media criticism #technical
- Ceremony · #personal essay #Creative Writing #Indigenous Writing #spirituality
October 2025
- Mise en Place for Writers · #personal essay #Creative Process #Writing Process #productivity
- THE BANANA MYSTERY · #personal essay #Literature #Creative Writing
- Be prolific. Accept every thought. Mythologize yourself. Show up. · #personal essay #Creative Process #Writing Process #productivity #music
- Want to Decolonize Your Writing? · #Academic Writing #Cultural Criticism #Indigenous Writing #Social Justice #Writing Process #Research
- Want to be a good researcher? Go down rabbit holes. · #personal essay #Academic Writing #Writing Process #Research
September 2025
- Yes, You Can Write about ANYTHING. · #personal essay #Creative Writing #Writing Process
- This is how I’m making WRITING* my full-time career. · #personal essay #Creative Process #publishing #writing
- The Dying Art of Having Something to Say · #personal essay #Cultural Criticism #Digital Culture #Writing Process #media criticism #political
- The Architecture of Belonging · #personal essay #community #Social Commentary