Thoughts on embracing the ugliness of your early creations as a form of civic duty and spiritual practice. A call to action without judgement.

An exploration of cognitive dissonance around AI usage, parallels to meat consumption, and the decision to transition to Sublime Text for an AI-free coding experience.

Reviving the classic guestbook for a static site using Netlify Forms and serverless functions, with lessons on distributed systems and race conditions.

Breaking free from platform dependence to build an independent literary publication with Eleventy, exploring privacy-first analytics and sustainable publishing models.

Exploring the value of public writing as reference material, why blogging serves as better knowledge management than private notes, and embracing cycles of beginning again.

Announcing the launch of brennan.day, an IndieWeb-focused personal site built with Eleventy, hosted on GitLab, and committed to ethical technology choices.

An all-night debugging session wrestling with web design issues, from omg.lol glitches to CSS mysteries, and the decision to migrate to Eleventy.

Transitioning from private to public writing, sharing progress on the Calgary Groups project and plans for the brennan.day website setup.

A pre-dawn reflection on overcoming fear and perfectionism to create an authentic, no-stakes blog for genuine self-expression.

Take back your corner of the Internet. Stop building on rented land. Stop trusting platforms that see you as product. Stop waiting for some company to make the “perfect” tool.

My first post on this weblog, writing from Calgary on Treaty 7 Territory about returning to independent writing on the open web with simple, enduring technology.