| writing-craft | 1,543 words
TAGS: Blogging, Writing Process, Creative Process, Productivity, Workflow
A detailed look at my personal blogging workflow that has enabled me to write nearly a post a day for four months straight, including how I generate ideas, organize thoughts, and maintain consistency.
| indieweb | 2,444 words
TAGS: IndieWeb, Digital Preservation, Web Development, Technology, Digital Culture
What will the Internet look like in 2036? 2046? How do we reckon with the challenges of digital preservation, link rot, and building for the Long Web in an age of ephemeral content?
| culture | 2,541 words
TAGS: Literary Criticism, Digital Culture, Academic Writing, Virginia Woolf, Feminism
What do we do with Virginia Woolf's concept of creative space in the digital age? Examining how domains, Queer dance halls, and collective spaces redefine what it means to have a room of one's own for contemporary writers.
| personal-favourites, community | 1,414 words
TAGS: IndieWeb, Philosophy, Community, Digital Culture, Personal Essay
My second principle for the IndieWeb requires good faith writing excludes the misanthrope. I want to reconsider that, carefully. Because the question of who gets to be here, and why, is more interesting and more complicated than I first let on.
| indieweb | 1,862 words
TAGS: Digital Gardens, IndieWeb, Digital Culture, Personal Essay
On executive dysfunction, the tyranny of perpetual drafts, and choosing messy immediacy over cultivated perfection.
| personal-favourites, lyric-essays | 1,218 words
TAGS: personal essay, philosophy, anthropology, Mental Health, gratitude
Turning thirty during a breakup while the world unravels. Meditating on the 12,000 generations of homo sapiens that came before us, and what it means to be embodied in this particular moment of deep time.
| 1,150 words
TAGS: IndieWeb, capitalism, Community, Personal Essay, Sustainability
A new approach to creative support: one simple tier, full access for everyone. Inspired by Manuel Moreale's 'One a Month' Club, the Toonie Club offers sustainable patronage without complex tiers or exclusive content.
| ai | 1,314 words
TAGS: AI, Open Source, Digital Culture, Media Criticism, Technology
A response to Cory Doctorow's defense of generative AI, examining the contradictions in supporting Ollama while championing open source principles, and an examination about what purity culture and hypocrisy really means.
| indieweb, community | 2,310 words
TAGS: IndieWeb, Community, Personal Essay, Digital Culture, Digital Sociology
We need to be good neighours to each other. But what does that mean on the IndieWeb? A look at mycorrhizal networks, Indra's Net, and the importance of building intentional connections between independent websites.
| personal-favourites, technical-tutorials | 2,128 words
TAGS: Digital Security, IndieWeb, Journalism, Open Source, Digital Culture, Social Commentary
A few days after writing about a weird malware campaign, I discovered that half a dozen cybersecurity news outlets had picked up the story. They now outrank me on Google. A metacommentary on the state of internet journalism, attribution, and what...
| personal-favourites, lyric-essays | 919 words
TAGS: personal essay, spirituality, writing, Indigenous Writing, philosophy
I believe writing is sacred medicine, and I have been thinking about the writing I have been offering you over the past few months. Is it healing? Is it good? Please, let me know. I am here to give you an offering.
| ai | 1,462 words
TAGS: personal essay, AI, IndieWeb, technology
This is my swan song on generative AI after writing six articles on the topic. Why I'm done with the AI discourse and instead fully leaning into the human and more-than-human web.
| personal-favourites | 1,498 words
TAGS: personal essay, IndieWeb, writing, community, Personal Development
Being developmentally delayed has benefits, and I am embracing the journey of being a late bloomer in writing, web development, and life.
| indieweb | 1,156 words
TAGS: personal essay, Social Commentary, Digital Culture, IndieWeb, community
A call to action for the 99% of internet users who consume but never create. If that's you (and it most likely is), then please read and consider what I'm asking.
| indieweb | 2,305 words
TAGS: Digital Security, Open Source, Ethics, technical, Software Development
Today, a weird malware distribution campaign targeting users of omg.lol and Triton, an open-source macOS client of omg.lol, was found. The attack leverages the trust of GitHub, creating a malicious fork where the download link has been replaced...
| 1,650 words
TAGS: IndieWeb, Web Development, Digital Culture, community, accessibility
I decide to throw my hat into the ring and define what exactly the IndieWeb movement is, the core principles, and why it matters for the future of the Internet.
| personal-favourites, lyric-essays | 879 words
TAGS: personal essay, philosophy, Climate Crisis, mindfulness, hope
Reflections on an unseasonably warm February day in Calgary, contemplating the accelerating pace of change in our world and finding meaning in small moments of connection and presence.
| indieweb | 1,899 words
TAGS: IndieWeb, Medium, Open Source, static site generators, Web Development
I created a Medium export converter for the IndieWeb that converts your Medium archive into clean Markdown for Jekyll, Hugo, Eleventy, or Astro.js. Available as both a command line tool, and a web interface.
| personal-favourites, politics | 1,309 words
TAGS: personal essay, philosophy, Mental Health, hope, activism
How the inevitability of oblivion can be a source of relief, while also examining our sacred duty to make things better in the present moment through persistent, stubborn action in the direction of care.
| indieweb | 1,792 words
TAGS: Open Source, Licensing, Software Development, Creative Commons
Why I'm Switching from MIT to AGPL and from CC BY-NC to CC BY-SA after a conversation with Dr. Matt Lee about copyleft licensing and protecting free software from corporate exploitation.