| 1,331 words
TAGS: IndieWeb, community, psychology, writing, digital culture
The world isn't full of critics, it's full of quiet kind people who don't get nearly enough time or attention from us because we're born with a negativity bias. We need to proactively choose to be lovers and proactively grease the quiet wheels.
| indieweb, community | 1,540 words
TAGS: IndieWeb, community, Digital Culture, philosophy
So, my silly little fanfic project blew up like crazy and received some really negative feedback. And I think I understand why. Exploring the concept of boundary spanning and cross-pollination in online communities. Drawing on organizational...
| 1,749 words
TAGS: IndieWeb, technical, self-hosting, fandom, community, open source
I deployed my own AO3 fork called fanfiction.lol, an independent fanfiction archive with no invite queue, fandom-agnostic moderation, and expanded content warnings. A manifesto on why fan communities deserve free infrastructure, the history of...
| technical-tutorials | 5,224 words
TAGS: Self-hosting, technical, homelab, IndieWeb, Linux, Docker
A beginner-friendly guide to building your own homelab on inexpensive hardware. Covers finding old computers, setting up Linux, SSH, Docker, and self-hosting services like password managers, RSS readers, and your own Fediverse instance. Digital...
| indieweb, technical-tutorials | 2,656 words
TAGS: Indieweb, Small Web, technical, Digital Culture, history, decentralization
Finger from 1971, Gopher from 1991, and Gemini from 2019. These protocols offer decentralized, terminal-based alternatives to the modern web. The small web's is in a renaissance. On the solarpunk philosophy of intentional technology, and how...
| writing-craft, technical-tutorials | 2,017 words
TAGS: bash, technical, tools, blogging, indieweb
After finding the tildeverse and the Tilde.town feels engine, I decided to build my own simple command-line tool for blogging that handles the full lifecycle of a blog post (creation, editing, building, and git push). A walkthrough of the design...
| culture | 1,550 words
TAGS: philosophy, psychology, Media Criticism, Creative Writing
I love time loops in media--from Groundhog Day to...hey, wait a minute. Does anybody else feel a weird sense of déjà vu? It can't just be me. Do you ever get up in the morning and feel as though you've already lived the same day?
| culture | 2,198 words
TAGS: philosophy, Media Criticism, Video Games, Anime, psychology
I love time loops in media--from Groundhog Day to Haruhi's Endless Eight. What do they reveal about mortality, memory, and the human desire to escape consequence through Nietzsche's eternal recurrence?
| science | 1,593 words
TAGS: Food, Biology, Science, Health
Spicy food and capsaicin demonstrate hormesis and antifragility in human biology. The science of pain, TRPV1 receptors, and how controlled exposure to stressors makes our bodies stronger rather than weaker.
| religion | 1,785 words
TAGS: Social Commentary, Spirituality, Gender, New Age, Cultural Appropriation, Health
Examining the dark side of manifestation and Law of Attraction movement: its New Thought origins, cultural appropriation of Eastern and Indigenous practices, gender dynamics, and the hidden cruelty of victim blaming cancer survivors and abuse...
| ai | 1,497 words
TAGS: Digital Culture, Social Commentary, AI, technical, politics, Gender
With the AI bubble finally deflating, what can we learn from the gender gap in genAI enthusiasm? Looking at /r/SlopcoreCirclejerk's culture of contempt, historical Luddite parallels, crypto bro demographics, and why men are drawn to extractive...
| personal-favourites | 2,546 words
TAGS: personal essay, IndieWeb, community, writing, blogging, internet, open source
My first IndieWeb Carnival entry--the theme is love letters, and I couldn't pick just one thing. A letter to the infrastructure that holds my corner of the internet together, to the strangers who maintain the open-source tools I depend on every...
| technical-tutorials | 1,413 words
TAGS: eleventy, javascript, technical, web development
How I decomposed an 866-line .eleventy.js monolith into four focused modules, fixed some lurking bugs, and eliminated dead CSS and dead dependencies along the way
| personal-favourites, history, culture | 1,702 words
TAGS: personal essay, mythology, philosophy, biology, history, identity
Sixty thousand miles of blood vessels run inside each of us, more than twice around the Earth. 330 billion cells are replaced every single day. Humanity has always built civilization beside rivers because we are rivers. Always in motion, never...
| culture, indigenous | 1,915 words
TAGS: personal essay, history, politics, culture, language, indigenous, colonialism, identity
In 1995, China abducted six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima--the recognized 11th Panchen Lama--severing the chain of mutual recognition at the heart of Tibetan Buddhist succession. Meanwhile, Michif, a language born from Cree verbs and French nouns...
| technical-tutorials | 1,507 words
TAGS: eleventy, javascript, technical, tutorial, IndieWeb, personal site
A walkthrough of how I audited my 11ty build benchmarks and cut cold-start time from 14 seconds down to 2.6 seconds by caching two custom filters and swapping out a bare network fetch.
| indieweb, community | 1,163 words
TAGS: personal essay, indieweb, internet, community
You visit your parent's house and find your white Xbox 360 in your childhood bedroom. A friends list full of gamertags that haven't booted up their own console in hundreds of weeks. On the heartbreak of digital disappearance, and why I'm...
| science | 699 words
TAGS: personal essay, science, politics, health, covid
A hantavirus outbreak aboard the MV Hondius in the South Atlantic has sent thirty passengers home across twenty-three countries before a single test was run. What does the WHO's 'low risk' framing mean? The institutional failure of January 2020...
| indigenous | 4,314 words
TAGS: personal essay, politics, Indigenous, Social Justice
Fred Moten and Stefano Harney's 'The Undercommons' describes a space of collective refusal beneath the institutions of the master. On why Black American cultural revolution was possible, why Indigenous cultural revolution is structurally...
| science, politics | 2,795 words
TAGS: personal essay, science, politics, conspiracy theories
Scientists working in classified American aerospace and nuclear research have died and disappeared. The story has migrated from UFO forums to the White House briefing room. A conspiracy requires a conspirator. On grief, and the brain's furious...