2024–2026
945 posts
2026 226
October 2026
- Weeknotes: Oct. 24-30, 2026
- Fall color at Seattle’s Japanese Garden
- Pine pruning inspiration from Seattle’s Japanese Garden
- Weeknotes: Oct. 17-23, 2026
- Developing a nonfiction book concept
- Finding invisible barriers to new habits
- Interrogating influences in sci-fi novels
- Notes from Living Rooms
- Thoughts from HWC Writing October 2026
- Read The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy
- Read Daggerbound
- Weeknotes: Oct. 10-16, 2026
- Read The Great Derangement
- Read Lolly Willowes
- Read The Language of Liars
- What makes me pick up a book?
- Read There Is No Antimemetics Division
- Read On Fairy-Stories
- Weeknotes: Oct. 3-9, 2026
- Notes from The Staff Designer
- Wonders of Web Weaving podcast annotated transcript
- Notes from The Weird and the Eerie
- Notes from Surfaces and Essences
- Weeknotes: Sept. 26 – Oct. 2, 2026
- Stage one: acquiring my word list
- Healthcare Theory of Everything?
September 2026
- Adopting new words
- Read The Last Lady B
- Read Haven
- Read Stay for a Spell
- Read Double Take
- Read Blood Slumber
- Learning scripting by scraping my own website
- Weeknotes: Sept. 19-25, 2026
- Read The Art of Relevance
- Read The New Aesthetics of Deculturation
- Weeknotes: Sept. 12-18, 2026
- Designs from Bauhaus, Modernism & the Illustrated Book
- Photos from the end-of-summer garden
- Two and a half years without a gallbladder
- Legibility in work
- Notes from The Arts of Action
- Read Small Things Like These
- Read Sea of Charms
- Read Exiles on Earth
- Weeknotes: Sept. 5-11, 2026
- Read Storytelling with Data Before and After
- Working less: decoupling self worth from paid labor (part 9)
- Read How Experts Differ from Novices
- I bought retinol and I feel weird about it
- Weeknotes: Aug. 28 – Sept. 4, 2026
- Distinguishing human readers from bot traffic with server-side stats
- The betrayal of perceived allies
- Formatting as courtesy to the reader
August 2026
- My emergency food supply is extra normal food
- I asked my city about their street cameras
- Weeknotes: Aug. 22-28, 2026
- What I read online today: Aug. 26, 2026
- What I read online today: Aug. 25, 2026
- What I read online today: Aug. 24, 2026
- My book TBR system
- Weeknotes: Aug. 15-21, 2026
- Authenticating digital works without ‘detectors’
- Weeknotes: Aug. 8-14, 2026
- Postcards
- Does kitsch discard the “interesting”?
- Why I don’t do atomic notes
- Read Kitsch Life: Aesthetics of Misinformation
- Read All of Us Murderers
- Read The Wolf and His King
- Read The Brides of High Hill
- Read Startup Hell
- Read Villain
- Read Claimed by the Flame of Faery
- Notes from Green Light
- Weeknotes: Aug. 1-7, 2026
- Paddling out of the doldrums
- Notes from A Prehistory of the Cloud
- Being told to sit
- Weeknotes: July 25-31, 2026
July 2026
- Notes from Sincerity and Authenticity
- AI or not?
- Read Crash Course
- Cooking eggs in stainless steel
- Weeknotes: July 18-24, 2026
- Fantasy as a tool of justice
- Three ways to approach creative work
- Weeknotes: July 10-17, 2026
- Trip report: long weekend in Victoria B.C.
- Weeknotes: July 4-9, 2026
- In memory of Rhaedar (2012-2026)
- Weeknotes: June 27 – July 3, 2026
- Intersection Murals
June 2026
- Weeknotes: June 20-26, 2026
- Horror and Romance as mirror genres
- Weeknotes: June 13-19, 2026
- Notes from The Digital Sublime
- I don’t like prompts
- A future fable: how American tech workers went union
- Read What the Bees See
- Weeknotes: June 6-12, 2026
- To buy or not to buy: making our selves through our homes (Part 8)
- Read Since the Marquess Demands
- Read Apparently, Sir Cameron Needs to Die
- Read Starhawke Rogue Series
- Read Nobody’s Baby
- Weeknotes: May 30 – June 5, 2026
- Mental defrag
- Read Color Pattern Texture
- Reimagining mobile
May 2026
- Imagining human-oriented online posts
- Weeknotes: May 23-29, 2026
- Thoughts on The Modern Myths
- Weeknotes: May 16-22, 2026
- Read The Grammar of Fantasy
- Read Wild: The Naturalistic Garden
- Women’s sun hats
- Weeknotes: May 9-15, 2026
- Bookshelves as mental constructs
- Read The Dark Lord’s Guide to Dating (and Other War Crimes)
- Read Claiming the Princess
- Read Never a Bride
- Read A Fellowship of Bakers & Magic
- Letting things build
- Digital aura reading list
- Read The Dialectics of Art
- Weeknotes: May 2-8, 2026
- Aura through the Cult of Self: opportunity creates authenticity
- Weaponized non-governance and political impotence
- Read The Ethics of Authenticity
- Weeknotes: April 25-May 1, 2026
April 2026
- Read STILL: The Art of Noticing
- Nostalgic for past futures
- Embedded ideologies
- Weeknotes: April 18-24, 2026
- Notes from Creating Identity
- Notes from How to Read a Book
- Recalibrating my reading for thinking
- Notes from Against Creativity
- Tidepooling in La Jolla (photos)
- Weeknotes: April 4-10 and 11-17, 2026
- An afternoon exploring Balboa Park gardens (photos)
- Trip log: Coast Starlight train from Seattle to Los Angeles
- Read This Will Be Interesting
- Read Star-Crossed Captive
- Notes from Technopoly
- Weeknotes: Mar. 28 – Apr. 3, 2026
- Personalized computing
March 2026
- Weeknotes: March 21-27, 2026
- Dissecting meaning
- Read A Bride’s Story 15
- Read Curse of the Thorn King
- Read Echo
- Read Yes, Your Serpentine Excellency
- Read Bride of the Fae Duke
- Read The Quiet Side
- Read His Forsaken Bride
- Weeknotes: March 14-20, 2026
- Brute force learning
- Notes from Ways of Seeing
- Watched Mickey 17
- Diluting meaning, diluting reality
- Weeknotes: Mar. 7-13, 2026
- Notes from Internet_Art
- Notes from The Extinction of Experience
- Forever War
- Weeknotes: Feb. 28 – Mar. 6, 2026
- Non-visual negative space
- Doing your own research sucks sometimes
- Notes from The Gutenberg Parenthesis
- Read What Comes of Attending the Commoner’s Ball
- Read The Sorceress and the Incubus
- Read Bonded
- Read Japandi Living
February 2026
- Weeknotes: Feb. 21-27, 2026
- Aura through the Cult of Media: synthetic becomes authentic
- Preventing bird window strikes
- Read Colour Combinations
- Read A Land So Wide
- Read Say Yes to the Princess
- Read Silver & Blood
- Weeknotes: Feb. 14-20, 2026
- How I make a mix
- Weeknotes: Feb 7-13, 2026
- Aura through the Cult of Personality: performed labor signals authenticity
- Read Marchioness Overnight
- Where I’m getting my news these days
- Weeknotes: Jan 31 – Feb 6, 2026
- Read Contact
- Read On the Concept of History
- Super Simple Sidenotes
- Read The Death of the Author
- Read The Author as Producer
- Read The Secrets of Ormsdale
- Read Enchanting the Fae Queen
January 2026
- Weeknotes: Jan 24-30, 2026
- Notes from The Siren’s Call
- Notes from Writing to Learn
- Letter to State rep re: banning rodenticides
- Watched Nine Creative Meditations
- Letter to state senator supporting coal divestment
- Notes from Chromophobia
- Weeknotes: Jan. 17-23, 2026
- Written testimony in support of Well Washington Fund
- Decoding failure
- Read Life in Three Dimensions
- Read The Disappearance of Rituals
- Letter to State reps re: Keep Our Children Safe Act
- A sunny day in the winter garden (photos)
- Weeknotes: Jan. 10-16, 2026
- Read The Psychology of Writing
- Read Behooved
- Letter to my state reps re: Washington State budget
- Embracing influence
- Read Snowed in with Shifters
- The world in the computer
- Weeknotes: Jan 3-9, 2026
- Read The Shots You Take
- Read I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons
- Read Art in the After-Culture
- Read Uncommon Kitchens
- Digital aura and the source of Truth
- 2025 in Review
- 2025 in Music
- Weeknotes: Dec 27, 2025 – Jan 2, 2026
- 2025 Year-End Reading Review
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December 2025
- Listened to The Crane Wife by The Decemberists
- 20 Favorite Books I Read in 2025
- Weeknotes: Dec. 20-26, 2025
- Read Cult of the Machine
- Read Cover
- Weeknotes: Dec. 13-19, 2025
- The signifiers of digital aura
- Weeknotes: Dec. 6-12, 2025
- Notes from Understanding Comics
- Read Astronaut II
- Read The Homeowner’s Guide to Contracting, Building, and Remodeling
- Recipe for a good week
- Notes from The Class Matrix
- Notes from Culture as Weapon
- Notes from A Wave in the Mind
- Notes from What Art Is
- Read Romance Your Brand
- Read Feeling & Knowing
- Read The Irresistible Urge to Fall For Your Enemy
- On revisiting a foundational text
- Weeknotes: Nov. 29-Dec. 5, 2025
- Email template to ask Beehiiv newsletters to enable RSS
- Aesthetic expectations
November 2025
- Weeknotes: Nov. 22-28, 2025
- On work: who sets the defaults?
- Greed: narratives and consequences
- Notes from An Eclectic Eclecticism
- Listened to The Moon & Antarctica by Modest Mouse
- Weeknotes: Nov. 15-21, 2025
- A study in aura
- Read Shenanigans
- Read Listen
- Read Sweep of the Blade
- Reemerging orality and serf brain
- Weeknotes: Nov. 8-14, 2025
- Weeknotes: Nov. 1-7, 2025
- Read The Smart Approach to Design: Bathrooms
- Read Vexations
- Read Automatic Noodle
- Read The Elf Tangent
- Decisions are the foundation of art
- Read Clean Sweep
- Read The Cuddle Clause
- Read These Gentle Wolves
- Read Captive of the Pirate King
- Read Of Lies and Earls
- Weeknotes: Oct. 25-31, 2025
October 2025
- Read Medium Hot
- Read Wordslut
- Review: Budget Blinds of Bothell
- Read The New Design Rules
- Weeknotes: Oct. 18-24, 2025
- Woke up angry
- The stages of taste
- Weeknotes: Oct. 11-17, 2025
- Notes from Woman Hating
- Read Leisure: The Basis of Culture
- Thirsting after oligarchs gone wild
- Slop is a symptom of capitalism
- Read Mate
- Weeknotes: Oct. 4-10, 2025
- Question: my site’s not indexed but I’m getting referrals from Google
- Read His Grace, The Duke
- Can people’s minds be changed?
- American thoughtcrime and violence against citizens
- Weeknotes: Sept. 27-Oct. 3, 2025
- Misalignments
- Refusing to apply hostile readings to ourselves
- Read The Sum of Small Things
- Read Superbloom
September 2025
- Two modes of Internet use
- Read The Summer War
- Read A Gentleman’s Gentleman
- Read The Bargain
- Played Light & Magic by Ladytron
- Weeknotes: Sept. 20-26, 2025
- How aesthetics destroyed privacy and polarized us
- Wandering the river
- No one is coming to save us
- Weeknotes: Sept. 13-19, 2025
- Notes from Self Made
- Read Mastering the Process
- The risks we’re willing to take
- Read The Art of Slow Writing
- Sovereign individuals and NPCs
- Read Hemlock & Silver
- Read Then Came You
- Weeknotes: Sept. 6-12, 2025
- Online feels truer than material reality
- It’s ok to not read your read later backlog
- Weeknotes: Aug. 30-Sept. 5, 2025
- Read The Eye of the Heron
- Listened to Ambulette – I’ve Got More
- Read Virtue Hoarders
- Read Gardens of Awakening
- Praise and Criticism
- Imagining better work: creating a niche for myself
- Read What Art Does
- Read Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic
August 2025
- Weeknotes: Aug. 23-29, 2025
- Read I Was Abducted by Aliens and Now I’m Trapped in a Rom-Com
- Read 12 Rules for Strife
- Read A Duke Never Tells
- Turning towards the positive
- Best 20 SFF books published 2020-2024, according to Tracy
- Read Art & Fear
- Taming the sensory and the strange
- Weeknotes: Aug. 16-22, 2025
- Read Against Interpretation
- Re: do blogs need to be so lonely?
- Read The Last Battle at the End of the World
- What to read? Big questions as filter and frame (Part 7)
- Weeknotes: Aug. 9-15, 2025
- Planning for a Portland trip
- Read The Crisis of Culture
- Building out of the mistakes of the past
- A hierarchy of liberty
- Internet People
- What’s up with sci-fi publishing?
- Weeknotes: Aug. 2-8, 2025
- Romance Scholarship Database
- Read A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping
- Read Demon with Benefits
- Weeknotes: July 26-Aug 1, 2025
July 2025
- Read Things Become Other Things
- Listened to Suzanne Vega – In Liverpool
- Weeknotes: July 19-25, 2025
- Weeknotes: July 12-18, 2025
- Read What We See When We Read
- Weeknotes: July 5-11, 2025
- Read Dangerous Fictions
- Read I Think I’m in Love with an Alien
- Read Sweet Obsession
- Nostalgic revisionism
- Weeknotes: June 28-July 4, 2025
- Read The Fourth Consort
June 2025
- Read Cooking As Though You Might Cook Again
- Self-webmention versus self-pingback
- Email to my Representative re: tabling impeachment
- Weeknotes: June 21-27, 2025
- Read We Will Not Cancel Us
- Generative AI as a magic system
- Read The Arts and Crafts Movement
- Read This Will Be Fun
- Weeknotes: June 14-20, 2025
- Read Mammoths at the Gates
- Read A Bride’s Story 14
- Back to “normal”
- Weeknotes: June 7-13, 2025
- Realities, perceived and presented, and their relationship to Truth
- Read The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
- Letter to Planning Commission re: upzoning in Juanita
- Juanita Garden Tour
- Notes from Immediacy
- Weeknotes: May 31 – June 6, 2025
- Notes from Revision and Self-Editing for Publication
- Read A Sea of Love
- Read Seven Drafts
- Generative AI and the Business Borg aesthetic
- Midlife rage
May 2025
- Weeknotes: May 24-30, 2025
- Read Pretentiousness
- Read More Than Words
- SAFE Bellevue — letter in support of streets for everyone
- Read The Reluctant Duchess
- Weeknotes: May 17-23, 2025
- Read England’s Perfect Hero
- Read Bewitching Rhaego
- Read The Plenitude of Distraction
- Weeknotes: May 10-16, 2025
- Read Bartleby, the Scrivener
- Read A Touch of Darkness
- Weeknotes: May 3-9, 2025
- Letter to Governor re: Right to Repair Bills
- Re-watched V for Vendetta
- Ebike options
- Weeknotes: April 26 – May 2, 2025
- Read The Pleasure of the Text
April 2025
- Browsing as thinking
- Read Tiny Experiments
- Read On Browsing
- Non-Prepper emergency preparedness
- Email to King County re: advertising on its website
- Online Sneaker Shops
- Weeknotes: April 19-25, 2025
- Read Mickey7
- Read Her Empath
- Read Bearadise Lodge
- Read Hotel Kitsch
- Read Cat’s Cradle: Suri’s Dragon
- Weeknotes: April 12-18, 2025
- Ceding the work of interpretation
- The contradictions of fascist communication
- Blogs are personal infrastructure
- On hobbies and the difficulty of embracing slowness
- Read Murder by Memory
- Media incentives
- Letter to Senators re: illegal deportations
- Weeknotes: April 5-11, 2025
- Words mean things
- Dumbness is emotional, not intellectual
- Read In Harmony with Nature
- Letter to Senators re: Signal chat
- Read The Pantry
- Weeknotes: Mar. 29 – Apr. 4, 2025
- Notes from Scorched Earth
- Read Chaos
- Personal security roundup
- Read She Doesn’t Have a Clue
- Read Calamity
March 2025
- Weeknotes: March 22-28, 2025
- On conformity and control
- Re-read Tempting Auzed
- Notes from Chronicles of a Liquid Society
- Notes from The Ordinal Society
- Slow craft: writing with a noncapitalist mentality (Part 6)
- When profit trumps principles
- Weeknotes: March 15-21, 2025
- Early spring osoberry bloom (photos)
- Read The Alien’s Steel
- Re-read A Duke by Default
- Read The Midcentury Kitchen
- Read Japanese Interiors
- Mini mix: upbeat 2010s indie
- Weeknotes: March 8-14, 2025
- Listened to Glass Island
- Finding safety in irony, apathy, and animosity
- Weeknotes: March 1-7, 2025
- Read Evil Twin
- Read Soviet Bus Stops
- Read Only One Bed
- Decolonizing my garden
- Listened to Beneath the Brine
- Weeknotes: Feb. 22-28, 2025
February 2025
- Read A Few Rules for Predicting the Future
- Read Collision Course
- Listened to Baby by Spank Rock
- Read Wooing the Witch Queen
- Choosing my pace by shaping my thinking spaces (Part 5)
- Read The Wild Wolf’s Rejected Mate
- Read He’s Not My Type
- Weeknotes: Feb. 15-21, 2025
- Notes from Understanding Media
- Listened to Coming or Going
- Read Alien Attraction
- Read How to Tame a Trickster Fae
- Weeknotes: Feb. 8-14, 2025
- Notes on the coup
- Read Elder Race
- Read The Spellshop
- Weeknotes: Feb. 1-7, 2025
- The 70% Rule
- Read Still Life
- Weeknotes: Jan 25-31, 2025
January 2025
- Read The Serviceberry
- Read My Dearest Enemy
- The open web as gift economy (Part 4)
- Weeknotes: January 18-24, 2025
- Read Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters
- Guiding principles for my website
- American origin stories
- The history and future of corn
- Weeknotes: Jan. 11-17, 2025
- Blog Questions Challenge
- Listened to Green Eyes by Ludes
- Giving up the pretense
- Progress vs. Growth
- Weeknotes: Jan 4 – 10, 2025
- Sanding off friction from indie web connection
- How to weigh evidence
- Folk programming
- What it means that blogs are part of oral culture
- Read Yield Under Great Persuasion
- Read Hot Hex Boyfriend
- 2024 in Review
- Disrupting my reading habits to read more of what *I* want (Part 3)
- Weeknotes: Dec. 28, 2024 – Jan. 3, 2025
- 2024 in Music
- 2024 Year-End Reading Review
- Questioning collections: the emotional weight of uncollecting (Part 2)
- 20 favorite books I read in 2024
- How I edited my blog post “Accepting Friction”
- Read Ori Gersht: History Repeating
- Read Program or Be Programmed
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December 2024
- Read Swordcrossed
- Read Declutter Your Photo Life
- Accepting friction: listening without a streaming subscription (Part 1)
- The mindset of more (series introduction)
- Read Come Together
- Read Galileo’s Holiday
- Read Capitalist Realism
- Weeknotes: Dec. 21-27, 2024
- How I’m cleaning out my music library
- Read Tin to Table
- Read Radium Girls
- Weeknotes: Dec. 14-20, 2024
- Looking again
- Read Lena
- In praise of the hundred page idea
- Cultural power vs. economic power
- Weeknotes: Dec. 7-13, 2024
- Air fryers produce less indoor air pollution
- Video pairing: systems steeped in values
- Disruptive technology: the answering machine
- We’ve done it before
- Read Seen and Unseen
- Weeknotes: Nov. 30 – Dec. 6, 2024
- Visual details from the California coast
- Gift to the indie web: I will edit your blog post
- What is the impact of online writing?
November 2024
- Read Dear Sophie, Love Sophie
- Weeknotes: Nov. 23-29, 2024
- Going to Web Writer’s Workshop
- Read CCCP Underground
- Trip log: California coast road trip
- Weeknotes: Nov. 18-22, 2024
- Weeknotes: Nov. 9-17, 2024
- Weeknotes: Nov. 2-8, 2024
- The election is just the first step for democracy
- Watched Toxicity Halloween Light and Fire Show
- Weeknotes: Oct. 26-Nov. 1, 2024
- What I looked up this week
October 2024
- Watched First Peoples – Americas
- Public comment on proposed vehicle safety rule
- Ambiguous words collection
- Trello open source alternative
- Read Snowed in with the Alien Dragon
- Read Cyborg Seduction
- Read Kilts & Kraken
- Weeknotes: Oct. 19-25, 2024
- Online ordering hours
- A woman, blogging: this is a political act
- Read A Shining Beacon
- Re-read Love and Other Scandals
- Weeknotes: Oct. 11-18, 2024
- The thoughts we use to think with
- Stories help us find truth, but there’s a difference between fact and fiction
- Watched Ed Yong’s XOXO talk
- Truthwashing: vibes and scams all the way down
- Resilience builds on trust, fascism on fear
- “The list is the origin of culture”
- Fighting climate change with financial reform
- Weeknotes: Oct. 5-12, 2024
- Read Ruined
- Agency in reading
- Hypertext writing includes modalities beyond text
- Granting ourselves grace
- Read Women & Power
- Weeknotes: Sept. 28 – Oct. 4, 2024
- Read Service Model
- Read Counter Space
- Managing climate disasters
- Read Advocate
September 2024
- The secret power of a blog
- Article pairing: restoring rivers
- Listened to Zydeco Gumbo
- Weeknotes: Sept. 21-27, 2024
- The Great American Road Trip
- Four years ago today…
- “The aesthetic is liquidity.”
- Article pairing: demonizing protestors
- Listened to Cake – Frank Sinatra
- Weeknotes: Sept. 14-20, 2024
- Long live hypertext!
- Read Cloudspotting for Beginners
- Aesthetic fascism
- Read Design is a Job
- Read Tulipina’s Floral Fantasy
- Read The Strategic Designer
- Recipe as story structure
- Why do blogging and fiction writing use different creative energy?
- Getting accommodations at work shouldn’t be so hard
- Weeknotes: Sept. 7-13, 2024
- Article pairing: reclaiming productivity
- Article pairing: missing information
- Pine niwaki pruning inspiration and notes
- The invisible toll of pollution
- What’s in your pills?
- Weeknotes: Aug. 31-Sept. 6, 2024
- Childfree cat lady 👋
- Listened to Memory Reboot
August 2024
- Weeknotes: August 24-30, 2024
- A sunset stroll at Bellevue Botanical
- Escaping corporate mindsets on the indie web
- The mindset of un-curating
- The globalization of attention
- Mo’ Money Day
- Read Aquicorn Cove
- Roundup: why we don’t have enough housing
- The Not Doing List
- Read A Dawn with the Wolf Knight
- Climate roundup: August 2024
- Weeknotes: August 17-23, 2024
- Read Stolen Threadwitch Bride
- Restoring species where they came from
- Read Beauty in Spring
- Read The Midwinter Mail-Order Bride
- Audio illusions (video)
- Weeknotes: August 10-16, 2024
- Creating rituals: remembering Coach Taylor
- Read Wild Art
- Read The Mausoleum’s Children
- Read Better Living Through Algorithms
- Thinking about how readers use our websites
- Weeknotes: Aug. 3-9, 2024
- Windows as productivity tech
- Minimalism as a way of taking up less space
- Read Cucina Povera
- Letter to Council re: upzoning Houghton Village
- Who decides what’s normal?
- On sidewalks
- Weeknotes: July 28-Aug. 2, 2024
- Notes from Doppelganger
- Notes from belonging by bell hooks
- Read Universal Principles of Color
July 2024
- Article pairing: the future of culture
- Read The Earl Who Isn’t
- Using personal weeknotes as a tool for attention
- Read Be Prepared
- Pretty things I saw in Bellingham
- Learning your own learning process
- $1000 UBI financial experiment
- Weeknotes: July 20-26, 2024
- Using biology to color in the long-lost past
- When will the bubble pop?
- Read The Marriage Game
- Flower field trip to Volunteer Park
- Straight No Chaser – Gerry Mulligan and Thelonius Monk
- Read How to Be Ace
- Read SFSX Vol. 1
- Tsunami Bomb – Lemonade
- Read A Life In Pattern
- Weeknotes: July 13-19, 2024
- Tech is a philosophy
- Delightful, friendly maps
- Read The Jewel-Hinged Jaw
- Subjective insomnia
- Generic drug issues 😬
- Self-care that’s not driven by shame
- The Rite of Spring
- Weeknotes: July 6-12, 2024
- The importance of anecdotal evidence
- Romance novels as Camp
- A Criminal Mix
- Re: 15 Books with the Most Impact
- When you don’t own your tools
- Moving towards climate accountability
- Weeknotes: June 29-July 5, 2024
- Finding common ground
- A better dream
- Seattle area indie bookstores
- Steered towards wanting
- Recognizing fascism
June 2024
- Read Rose/House
- When the future doesn’t work anymore
- Read Cat’s Cradle: The Golden Twine
- Weeknotes: June 22-28, 2024
- Watched Oppenheimer
- The Dysfunctional State
- Notes on Tajikistan
- Process reveals personality
- Read View, Kyoto
- Read Seven of Infinities
- Predatory business practices
- RSVP maybe to 7/1 Writing HWC
- Read Queen of Dust
- Weeknotes: June 15-21, 2024
- Dystopian architecture as memorial
- Good idea?
- The overwhelming loudness of performance
- The injustice embedded in our infrastructure
- Defining public goods
- Read Unknown Pleasures
- Read Emergent Properties
- Weeknotes: June 8-14, 2024
- Read Mariposas Nocturnas
- US psyops to undermine confidence in vaccines
- Read Project ARKA: Into the Dark Unknown
- Eating bitter
- Read Linghun
- How do my phone, dSLR, and point and shoot cameras compare?
- Pedestrian bridges and plantings
- Building and rebuilding community spaces
- Read Hidden Systems
- Weeknotes: June 1-7, 2024
- The value of canon
- Getting out of your own way
- Posting frequency as the heartbeat of a blog
- Equal systems mean better systems
- Libraries as publishers
- Weeknotes: May 25-31, 2024
May 2024
- It’s Because of People Like You
- Housing is broken for everyone but the rich
- Weird online money stuff
- The vision of libraries
- Read Dreadful
- A better way to organize information
- Plant and Animal ID Resources
- Emotional dominoes
- Eric Clapton – Journeyman
- Produce as memento mori
- Indie web curation and collation
- The ambivalence of cooking
- Weeknotes: May 18-24, 2024
- Tasting heritage
- On kitsch
- Mega tech companies are cheaters
- My current work-life “rules”
- Devices versus focal objects
- Articles I read today: May 19, 2024
- Read The Yearning
- Read Marimekko: In Patterns
- Articles I read today: May 17 + 18, 2024
- Social norms of the IndieWeb: followup from Homebrew Website Club
- Weeknotes: May 11-17, 2024
- The IndieWeb’s next stage?
- When is it time?
- Articles I read today: May 16, 2024
- Cultural arbitrage
- Tricks for getting a group talking
- Reply to gRegor: COVID safety at events
- Control of thought, control of movement
- Read The Road Not Taken
- Read The Garden of Time
- Weeknotes: May 4-10, 2024
- Marc Broussard – Home
- Efficiency isn’t everything
- Taste requires intentional attention
- Climate roundup: May 2024
- The consumer society
- Theft of the land
- How we feel about what we consume
- Scale requires deskilling
- Weeknotes: April 27 – May 3, 2024
- Hobbies are productive
- Describe scents by mood
- Spring at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden
- The rotating bookshelf art show
- Polaroids, memories, associations
- Human dimensions
April 2024
- Retribution and forgiveness
- Power expands
- Read The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species
- Weeknotes: April 20-26, 2024
- Read Design for the Mind
- Adding a heart reacji to my WordPress theme
- The “creative industries”
- Read Woven
- Self-promotion vs. advertising
- P’tit Belliveau – Income Tax
- Access to capital for change
- King County Parks Levy survey: an exercise in defining success
- “Webbing” the IndieWeb
- Read The Museum of Scent
- Phonefree
- Global nutrient transfer
- Weeknotes: April 13-19, 2024
- Read Dumb: Living Without a Voice
- Rewilding for resilience
- Read Mexican: A Journey Through Design
- Style vs. taste
- The obscenity of women’s pleasure
- The vulnerability of having taste
- Recipes as a score for improvisation
- Read Pieometry
- Read Susan Point: Works on Paper
- Read The Factory Witches of Lowell
- Read The Hard Switch
- It’s just a blog
- Read The Empress of Salt and Fortune
- The draw of the herd
- Publishing pressures on genre fiction length
- Weeknotes: April 6-12, 2024
- Interview at People and Blogs
- Read Strikethrough!
- Translations within translations
- This is not a doomed time
- 10:20AM by Spoon
- Reply to Alex: who designed that hotel room? 😆
- An invitation to wander
- My drift away from the sci-fi genre
- Read The Haunting of Tram Car 015
- Read Rescued by Quiyaan
- Read Once More Upon A Time
- Read The Renegade Akseli Cyborg
- Read Stone Cold Cyborg
- Weeknotes: March 30-April 5, 2024
- Read The Madness of Lord Ian Mackenzie
- Listened to Lloyd, I’m Ready to Be Heartbroken
- Digging into the training datasets for genAI models
- Building community friendly spaces
- Listened to Madness
- Gulping information
- Honest book criteria
March 2024
- Weeknotes: March 23-29, 2024
- Risograph printing class at Paper Press Punch
- The anathema of perceived negativity
- RSVP: Writing Themed Homebrew Website Club
- Shape a body of work around a thesis
- Read More is More
- Failures of markets
- Enough is a dirty word in America
- Weeknotes: March 16-22, 2024
- Read Liberty: British Colour Pattern
- Interview on creative habits with İsmail Şevik
- Observing your day
- Watched Dune Part Two
- Riso inspiration roundup
- Creativity comes with the work
- Our lives, commodified
- Exposure to vacuum
- Not your strongman
- Tradwives are comforting propaganda
- Spotting misinformation
- Listened to On My Shoulders
- Exploitative arbitrage
- Weeknotes: March 9-15, 2024
- Read Drunk on All Your Strange New Words
- Read The Mother of All Squid Builds a Library
- Resources for divesting your retirement
- Prioritizing locals
- Anything can be treated as a craft
- Eye-pleasing type specimens
- Weeknotes: March 2-8, 2024
- You don’t hate AI, you hate…
- Read Art Deco Textiles
- Mini online comics to read
- Read Part of Your World
- Phases of a consulting career
- Read Darkly She Goes
- Resisting apathy
- Websites as gardens of the Internet ecosystem
- Reply to Sara: lowering social barriers
- Listened to Katchi
- Read Shout Out
- Becoming the wave
- The hollowness of fulfilment
- Creating our own unrealities
- Article pairing: the immediacy of blogging
- Weeknotes: Feb. 24 – Mar. 1, 2024
- IndieWeb interactions: what builds connection?
February 2024
- A bad look for Automattic
- In Praise of the Great-tailed Grackle
- Re-watched Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind
- Read Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free
- Read In Which Margo Halifax Earns Her Shocking Reputation
- Censorship is a public-private partnership
- Weeknotes: Feb. 17-23, 2024
- Read Into the Riverlands
- Read Ways of Curating
- Information parasites
- The value in forgetting
- False equivalencies
- Things to do with a website
- Reframing home as a productive rather than consumptive space
- Adapting your tools
- Learning how to revise a novel
- Read This Country
- Weeknotes: Feb. 10-16, 2024
- Lessons in resistance
- Interactive map of New Deal projects
- See look I don’t hate all AI
- The many tongues of English
- Article pairing: the best way to teach
- Read Why Don’t We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole
- Weeknotes: Feb. 3-9, 2024
- Voting disparities in odd year elections
- Unlocking the color spectrum
- If the medium is the message, what do AI graphics say?
- Read Unchained
- Read Women Without Kids
- Read Happily Ever After
- Paying for media
- The patriarchy embedded in techno-think
- Who’s at risk from new technology?
- Living with the litter of modernity
- Read The Tea Master and the Detective
- Weeknotes: Jan. 27 – Feb. 2, 2024
January 2024
- The siren call of LLMs
- Lake Washington’s original shoreline
- Read The Lily of Ludgate Hill
- Read Love & Lemons Simple Feel Good Food
- Electrifying my house: the first year with a heat pump
- Culture war: meat and masculinity
- Listened to Civilization
- Listened to Audacity of Huge
- Read Sight Beyond the Sun
- The webpunk ethos
- Weeknotes: Jan. 20-26, 2024
- Capitalism brain
- Challenging the “rights” of cars for the rights of people
- Bottomless graphics
- Misadventures in leaded dishware
- Game roundup
- Weeknotes: Jan. 13-19, 2024
- New phone, try two
- “Pantone” colors without subscription
- Watched Everything Everywhere All At Once
- Tenuous at best
- Read The Witchwood Knot
- Read A Power Unbound
- Email about genAI to King County OESJ Team
- Weeknotes: Jan. 6-12, 2024
- To stay or to go?
- Generated content is an invasive species in the online ecosystem
- Emoting with punctuation
- Moving through anxiety
- Read Sourdough
- Reply to Alex: Uplifting Reads
- Read I’m Glad My Mom Died
- Weeknotes: Dec. 30 – Jan. 5, 2024
- 2023 in Music
- Online game night
- A subversive art show hidden inside a soap opera
- When the data are fuzzy
- Challenging myself playfully
- Listened to Attica
- 2023 Year-End Reading Review
- 2023 in Review