| indieweb | 1,808 words
TAGS: personal essay, Digital Culture, IndieWeb, Social Commentary, philosophy
What is trust in an AI-saturated internet? And a related question, how do we reckon with the barriers to onboarding people to the IndieWeb? We must cultivate faith in our digital interactions and make independent web spaces more accessible.
| french | 766 words
TAGS: personal essay, Language Learning, philosophy, Mental Health, writing
Cet article de blogue est écrit en français. This blog post is written in French. Apprendre le français, le deuil et les limites de la vie -- un exercice en vulnérabilité linguistique.
| ai | 1,842 words
TAGS: Tech Criticism, Digital Culture, Open Source, AI Ethics, Software Ethics, Digital Sovereignty, Community
genAI code is now in Python, curl, and systemd. We face an ethical crisis. Slopware means we have two possible responses: absolutism or harm reduction. This moment demands the same principled stand that free software absolutists have taken for...
| personal-favourites, writing-craft | 1,293 words
TAGS: personal essay, Creative Process, Writing, Philosophy, Community, Digital Culture
I've written 120 blog posts in the past 140 days, averaging 1,900 words per post. 250,000 words total on my blog currently. It's as good a time as any to review my work so far and speculate on the possibilities of my future.
| science | 2,209 words
TAGS: personal essay, Creative Process, Philosophy, Indigenous Writing, Neuroscience
Come be bored with me. Utterly bored. Within the default mode network, Heidegger's philosophy, Indigenous dream epistemologies, and personal experiences with hypnagogic states.
| personal-favourites, culture | 2,164 words
TAGS: personal essay, Cultural Criticism, Digital Culture, nostalgia, capitalism, childhood
My nostalgia is hypercapitalist. My nostalgia is the worst of the unregulated Internet. I cannot decouple my fondest memories from the corporations and the loss of innocence that produced them, and I'm not sure there's anything wrong with that.
| politics | 8,904 words
TAGS: Philosophy, Personal Essay, Ethics, Social Justice, Human Rights, Activism, Cultural Criticism, Social Commentary
Liberal democracies selectively apply universal human rights, and there is a progressive failure to extend moral consideration to: Palestinians, Congolese, Rohingyans, Uyghurs, trans people, women, Black communities, Indigenous Peoples, the...
| indieweb, technical-tutorials | 2,355 words
TAGS: eleventy, IndieWeb, personal site, technical
What have I added to my site since I started in December? Quality-of-life improvements, new pages, interesting features, and of course, easter eggs! When you add a little each day, it really adds up.
| history, community | 2,895 words
TAGS: Philosophy, Personal Essay, Community
Drawing on Susan Neiman's philosophy of evil, the 'missing stair' problem, and Elinor Ostrom's principles for governing the commons, I try to explore the difference between withdrawal due to burnout versus accountability, and argue that ethical...
| personal-favourites, writing-craft | 827 words
TAGS: personal essay, Creative Writing, Literature, freewriting
Dogfooding my freewriting; an experiment on why writers need to embrace the weird, unfiltered, and unconventional rather than fearing AI detection.
| personal-favourites, politics | 2,356 words
TAGS: Feminism, politics, Personal Essay, Philosophy, Activism
An open letter to the men in my life and around the world, pleading that we recognize there is so much work for us to do. A recognition of my own shortcomings and failures. Steps we can take to try to liberate the future.
| 1,036 words
TAGS: Digital Culture, Media Criticism, journalism, IndieWeb
I was permanently banned from r/Calgary for posting my own writing about local public library funding. What does this say about the state of local journalism?
| ai | 1,481 words
TAGS: Digital Culture, Media Criticism, politics, art
The Calgary Public Library is offering $8,000 for an AI Artist Residency while Canadian artists face funding cuts and 16% grant acceptance rates. There are programs like this around the world. Why?
| indieweb | 830 words
TAGS: Eleventy, Static Site Generators, Open Source, Web Development, Community, Kickstarter
After only a couple days, Build Awesome's Kickstarter has been cancelled and rescheduled due to email delivery issues that ruined the project's momentum despite reaching their funding goal in a single day.
| personal-favourites, politics | 1,692 words
TAGS: cultural criticism, politics, media criticism, social commentary, personal essay
A CEO took a comically small bite of a burger. The internet erupted. Meanwhile, the US is bombing Iran, Trump is drafting executive orders to seize control of the midterms, and civil unrest is reaching a boiling point. We need to talk about what...
| indieweb | 2,295 words
TAGS: Eleventy, Static Site Generators, Open Source, Web Development, Community
Build Awesome is a rebrand of 11ty/Eleventy, backed by a successful $40k Kickstarter. But this attempt to monetize static site generators repeats the same mistakes that killed Gatsby and Stackbit--and misunderstands who actually builds static sites.
| 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.