January 2026

• Computing for the Apocalypse January 17, 2026 · #Web Development #Self-Hosting #Digital Homesteading #DevOps #Technical Guide
• REVIEW: Light Joy Writing, On Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic January 16, 2026 · #Book Review #Creativity #Writing #Personal Essay #Philosophy
• What I Have Learned Being on the IndieWeb for a Month January 14, 2026 · #IndieWeb #Personal Essay #Web Development #Community Building #Digital Culture
• Posting to Your Static Site with Quill and Micropub January 13, 2026 · #indieweb #eleventy #netlify #micropub #quill #tutorial
• Respecting the No-JS Choice: Making Your Site Work for Everyone January 12, 2026 · 1 comment · #accessibility #javascript #css #eleventy #web-dev #noscript
• Greenland Belongs to the Inuit January 11, 2026 · #Politics #Indigenous Rights #Colonialism #Sovereignty
• From 65 to 83: Attempts at Performance Optimization January 10, 2026 · #webdev #performance #eleventy #css #javascript #optimization
• Extending the Post Graph Plugin: Adding Clickable Links and Tooltips January 9, 2026 · #11ty #javascript #webdev #eleventy #plugin
• Resources for the Personal Web: A Follow-Up Guide January 8, 2026 · 1 comment · #indieweb #blogging #resources #directories #search-engines
• Building an IndieAuth Comment System for Your Static Site January 6, 2026 · 8 comments · #indieweb #eleventy #netlify #javascript #indieauth #tutorial
• REVIEW: How do we reckon? On Yiyun Li's 'Things in Nature Merely Grow' January 5, 2026 · #books #review #grief #philosophy #mental-health #suicide
• How Can We Use the Internet for Good? January 4, 2026 · #politics #indieweb #activism #writing #philosophy
• How a Taylor Swift Lyric Gave Me an Existential Crisis January 3, 2026 · #music #philosophy #art #creativity
• auld lang syne: The Commonplace (micro)Log January 2, 2026 · #tutorial #eleventy #webdev #commonplace
• Deploying An Eleventy Site to NeoCities with GitLab CI/CD January 1, 2026 · #tutorial #eleventy #neocities #ci/cd #indieweb #webdev

December 2025

• Why I'm not a Full-stack Dev December 31, 2025 · #webdev #internet #jamstack
• To Dance is to Live December 30, 2025 · #personal #philosophy #poetry #spirituality
• Building brennan.day Part One: Design, Rainbows, and Accessibility December 29, 2025 · #indieweb #eleventy #webdev #personal-site
• What Can We Give One Another? On Public Domain, Preservation, and Living Without Copyright December 28, 2025 · #public-domain #copyright #culture #preservation #foss
• Thoughts on Digital Third Spaces December 27, 2025 · #community #indieweb #third-spaces #philosophy
• Do It Ugly: On Bad Art and Civic Duty December 26, 2025 · #creativity #writing #philosophy #mortality
• Choosing Quiet: I'm No Longer Using AI Editors December 21, 2025 · #writing #ai #ethics
• Bring Back the 90's Guestbook with JAMstack: How I Added Dynamic Comments to My Static 11ty Site December 20, 2025 · #webdev #tutorial #netlify
• Building an Independent Literary Publication in 2025 December 19, 2025 · #writing #publishing #tools
• Why Start Again? On Cycles, Beginnings, and the Art of Returning December 18, 2025 · #meta #writing #learning #spirituality
• Dawn of a New Day, Dawn of a New Year December 16, 2025 · #meta #announcement #indieweb
• Worse than Wrestling with God December 15, 2025 · #webdev #troubleshooting
• Getting Things Up and Running December 14, 2025 · #meta #projects
• Time to Fun Blog December 13, 2025 · #writing #spirituality
• omg.lol is the Internet We Need Right Now December 12, 2025 · #internet #blogging #webdev
• Are NSFW AI Companions Actually Just Exploited Workers in Developing Countries? December 10, 2025 · #Technology #Digital Culture #Social Commentary #Media Analysis
• Hello World! December 10, 2025 · 2 comments · #meta #personal
• The Only Real Sport December 9, 2025 · #Media Analysis #Cultural Criticism #Personal Essay #Sports #Journalism
• No, Smiling Friends WON’T Become the Next Rick and Morty December 8, 2025 · #Media Analysis #Cultural Criticism #Personal Essay #Storytelling
• 10 Ways to Write Like the 90’s December 6, 2025 · #Writing Process #Cultural Criticism #Digital Culture #Personal Essay #Creativity
• I Started Listening To Justin Vernon In Grade School. Now, He’s Retiring As I Turn 30. December 6, 2025 · #Music #Personal Essay #Storytelling #Life #Reflection
• What does it mean to be a good editor? December 5, 2025 · #Writing Process #Publishing #Personal Essay
• Fandom is Awesome. Furries are Awesome. Bronies are Awesome. Cringe is Awesome. Fuck You. December 4, 2025 · #Cultural Criticism #Digital Culture #Personal Essay #Community Building
• Move to a Better Internet in 2026. December 2, 2025 · #Digital Culture #Technology #Internet #Social Media #Personal Essay #Web Development
• You will never do anything productive or meaningful with your life. December 1, 2025 · #Personal Essay #Productivity #Philosophy #Reflection

November 2025

• The Three Times the World Nearly Ended November 30, 2025 · #Personal Essay #History #Political Writing #Storytelling
• I wrote two dozen articles on Medium in November. It made me a living wage. November 29, 2025 · #Writing Career #Medium #Publishing #Personal Essay #Productivity
• Tough, but Fair: How to Elevate Your Craft from Blogging to Literary Journalism November 28, 2025 · #Writing Career #Publishing #Literary Journalism #Writing Process #Personal Essay
• Steal My Work November 27, 2025 · #Creative Process #Writing Process #Personal Essay #Creativity #Art
• THE ART OF THE MICROESSAY November 26, 2025 · #Writing Process #Creative Writing #Personal Essay
• We’ve Known About Thomas King for Over Ten Years. November 24, 2025 · #Indigenous Writing #Literary Criticism #Canadian Literature #Academic Writing #Social Justice #Storytelling
• Did Joan Westenberg memoryhole Web3 NFTs? November 23, 2025 · #Technology #Media Critique #Digital Culture #Journalism
• The Misdirection November 23, 2025 · #Personal Essay #Writing Process #Storytelling #Life #Reflection #Creativity
• A Love Letter to Public Transit November 21, 2025 · #Urban Planning #Personal Essay #Community Building #Social Commentary
• Community Will Save Your Life November 20, 2025 · #Community Building #Social Commentary #Personal Essay #Mental Health
• My Best Advice for Medium Writers with No Followers November 20, 2025 · #Writing Career #Medium #Writing Process #Publishing #Personal Essay
• THE INERTIA EFFECT: Stop Optimizing November 19, 2025 · #Productivity #Personal Essay #Reflection
• Your Civic Duty to Make Art November 17, 2025 · #Creative Process #Social Commentary #activism #Personal Essay #Art #Community Building
• Gen-Z love dumb phones, the analog, e-ink screens, slow living, community, and longform work. November 16, 2025 · #Digital Culture #Technology #Cultural Criticism #Personal Essay #Analog Living #Digital Minimalism
• How to Rewild Your Writing Practice November 15, 2025 · #Writing Process #Creative Process #Personal Essay #Creativity #Mindfulness
• Lovebombing, Psychosis, and Murder. November 14, 2025 · #Personal Essay #Mental Health #Storytelling #Life #Reflection
• BoJack and the Temptation of Suicide November 13, 2025 · #Media Analysis #Mental Health #Personal Essay #Storytelling
• …How the Hell do I Find Good Creators? November 12, 2025 · #Digital Culture #Social Media #Personal Essay #Curation #Internet
• In Defence of Rupi Kaur November 11, 2025 · #Poetry #Literary Criticism #Instagram Poetry #Canadian Literature #Cultural Criticism
• THE COMPASSION ECONOMY November 10, 2025 · #Social Commentary #Community Building #Political Writing #Social Justice
• When We Get Blackheart November 9, 2025 · #Media Analysis #Personal Essay #Storytelling #Creative Process
• The Piss Average Problem November 8, 2025 · #Cultural Criticism #Media Analysis #Publishing #Personal Essay #Creative Writing
• Witnessing Palestine & the United States November 7, 2025 · #Political Writing #Social Justice #Media Critique #activism #Journalism
• The Current State of the Internet should TERRIFY You November 4, 2025 · #Digital Culture #Technology #Social Commentary #Internet #Media Critique
• Ceremony November 3, 2025 · #Poetry #Indigenous Writing #Personal Essay #Spirituality #Creative Writing

October 2025

• Mise en Place for Writers October 30, 2025 · #Writing Process #Creative Process #Productivity #Personal Essay #Mindfulness
• THE BANANA MYSTERY October 27, 2025 · #Personal Essay #Storytelling #Creative Writing #Life
• Be prolific. Accept every thought. Mythologize yourself. Show up. October 25, 2025 · #Writing Process #Creative Process #Personal Essay #Productivity #Creativity
• Want to Decolonize Your Writing? October 24, 2025 · #Indigenous Writing #Writing Process #Cultural Criticism #Academic Writing #Social Justice
• Want to be a good researcher? Go down rabbit holes. October 17, 2025 · #Research #Writing Process #Academic Writing #Personal Essay

September 2025

• Yes, You Can Write about ANYTHING. September 30, 2025 · #Writing Process #Creative Writing #Personal Essay #Creativity
• This is how I’m making WRITING* my full-time career. September 26, 2025 · #Writing Career #Publishing #Medium #Personal Essay #Creative Process
• The Dying Art of Having Something to Say September 25, 2025 · #Writing Process #Cultural Criticism #Media Critique #Personal Essay #Digital Culture #Communication
• The Architecture of Belonging September 11, 2025 · #Community Building #Social Commentary #Personal Essay #Technology

August 2025

• I Analyzed 14 Years of My Writing with Vibe Coding. August 13, 2025 · #Writing Process #Research #Personal Essay #Creative Writing #Technology #Reflection

May 2025

• Walking Softly: Navigating the Transformation of a Writing Life May 15, 2025 · #Writing Process #Personal Essay #Writing Career #Life Transitions #Creative Writing #Reflection
• Medium vs. Substack May 5, 2025 · #Publishing #Digital Culture

April 2025

• 29: Done. April 23, 2025 · #Personal Essay #Graduation #Mental Health #Indigenous Writing #Life Transitions
• Disability in Adventure Time April 13, 2025 · #Disability Studies #Media Analysis #Critical Theory #Academic Writing

March 2025

• How Do We Fall in Love in the Future? March 18, 2025 · #Technology #ai #Personal Essay #Media Analysis #Digital Culture

February 2025

• From Digital to Analog February 24, 2025 · #Analog Living #Writing Process #Mindfulness #Journaling #Digital Minimalism #Personal Essay
• What If You Created As Much As You Consume? February 9, 2025 · #Creative Process #Digital Minimalism #Personal Essay #Mindfulness #Community Building #activism
• The Great Forgetting February 4, 2025 · #Digital Culture #Cultural Criticism #Technology #Journalism

January 2025

• OUR HYSTERICAL STRENGTH January 18, 2025 · #Personal Essay #Social Commentary #activism #Climate Crisis #Community Building #Political Writing
• The Geometry of Writing January 15, 2025 · #Personal Essay #Poetry #Indigenous Writing #Queer Literature #Mental Health #Creative Writing
• Setting Up Decap CMS with Jekyll: A Real-World Example January 5, 2025 · #Web Development