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A piece I wrote for Vrai Magazine in July 2017 that I’m republishing here.
*Like most of the National Conservation Lands, Agua Fria National Monument is a place that’s meant to be explored and investigated, not a place to blandly stroll from interpretative marker to interpretative marker.”
A short essay on Sonoran Desert National Monument in Arizona, written for a photography book on Our National Monuments.
Look, the early internet sucked. It was shitty design. We aren’t looking to go back to shitty design for shitty design’s sake. What we are nostalgic for isn’t terrible websites. It’s personal websites. It’s just a bit of diversity in design choices. It’s a hint of a person. Not a personal brand. An actual fucking … Read more
Five interesting things about me, and a listing of other bloggers who are posting about their own 5 Interesting Things (add yours!)
I’m working on three big projects right now. The first is finalizing my dad’s stuff. He passed away last month and there’s still a lot to do, from planning and hosting the memorials, taking care of financial and legal obligations, and dealing with the remainder of his stuff. And, grieving, of course—that’s obviously been ongoing. … Read more
Webnotes are manually added to the end of a post by the author after publishing as a way to provide useful info, links to other relevant posts, and comments from readers.
These custom text shortcuts can be incredibly useful in making some typing tasks easier—whether that’s routine things like your email address, or hard to type items like special characters.
I pay a 30% tax on keeping up with the friends, as they only post life updates on enshittified platforms.
Traditional web analytics emphasize the wrong things, at least for the noncommercial personal websites. Here are some ideas on what analytics for the personal web could look like.
A thought experiment about how Apple could create a new hybrid model of personal websites + social media leveraging iCloud and other products.