I just saw an article that called itself “yet another goddamn article about generative AI”—it’s good, by the way, you should read it—so I want to keep this somewhat brief. I’ve been wanting to write something about em dashes and AI for a while now, because I like em dashes, and I don’t like AI, but like, what else...

It’s official. About 20 minutes ago, I deleted my Hetzner VPS that I’ve had since October 2020 (and that my wife rightly pointed out I bought in the depths of Covid … whatever happened during Covid, right? crazy times) and moved this website over to static Fastmail hosting. While I used to use the VPS for actually...

I have remade my website (yet again) and now generate it with (yet another) SSG of my own design. For some while, my I-don’t-have-anything-to-do-but-I-want-to-program project was SSGs, so I’ve written quite a few. They’re fairly simple to design and implement, and it allows me to do what’s always been my favorite...

OK, I admit it, the main reason I’m writing this is so that my buddy dozens’s blog post is wrong. His is not the last blog post about markdown—mine is!! Bwahahaha! I do actually have something to say about Markdown though. I actually completely agree with dozens’s thesis that Markdown is fine, in fact it’s maybe the...

No, your blog should not have comments. Or at least, you should not feel as though it has to have comments. The comment section is famously the vilest part of any webpage (except YouTube, for some reason); while I do not aim to tell you how to run your site, I do not think anyone who isn’t ready for the muck of the...

These are the books I read in the month of December, 2025. They’re not in order of me having read them, but rather in order of me remembering that I read them. R.U.R. (graphic novel adaptation) by Kateřina Čupová, trans. by Julie Nováková I know approximately two things about Karel Čapek: he was Czech, and he coined...

I’ve been enjoying STAR TREK: VOYAGER quite a bit over the past week or so I’ve been watching it, but I think this episode—the tenth of season 1—is my current favorite. In it, the crew find themselves welcomed by the Sikarians, a notoriously hospitable people that have a law against providing outsiders with...

when i saw the topic for this blog carnival i knew i'd have to participate. i have an mfa in poetry so i'm contractually required to weigh in on matters of poetics. however, because you can find plenty of my poetry about, i'm not going to use this month's carnival to share my creative output. instead, i'm going to...

Alongside silly licenses, I really enjoy seeing and thinking of funny versioning schemes as well. One such scheme is Binary Versioning (binver), which is just a fun time.I suppose I should mention that most of these schemes are in conversation with Semantic Versioning (semver), which is by and large the most common...

trev over on #systemcrafters was asking about blogs switching from straight.el back to package.el, the built-in package manager for Emacs. I have done this, so here is a blog about switching back.why straight.el?First, let’s have some background. Straight has a fairly complex bootstrapping process and requires...