| 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.
| indieweb | 1,915 words
TAGS: Web Development, IndieWeb, JAMstack, Open Source, Blog Themes, Hugo, eleventy
I've spent the last few weeks working on three new free themes for IndieWeb blogging: Indiepaper, Newsprint, and brennan.jp.net, all of which centre around giving people a place to call their own on the internet.
| ai | 1,137 words
TAGS: AI, art, Culture, technology, Media Criticism
Prompt Engineers Lack Any Canon, Don't You? AI artists have an existential problem: they consume only their own work, severing the dialogue of culture that connects us across generations.
| writing-craft, politics | 1,763 words
TAGS: Substack, writing, Culture, IndieWeb, Capitalism
The newsletter platform is supposed to be the new economic engine for culture. Yet, they let hate speech fester. Why? The answer is obvious. Writing is treated as commodity instead of sacred art. But there is a solution.
| 843 words
TAGS: personal essay, writing, Software Development, Digital Culture, AI
A roundup of recent developments: building a terminal-based writing organizer, being interviewed by Le Monde about AI social media, and thoughts on Medium's Partner Program changes.