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I’m John Williams

I build for the web and write about our digital culture. Posts here tend to be about whatever’s caught my attention. That usually means front-end development or the intersection of technology and the humanities, but sometimes other stuff sneaks in.

I also run a weekly lyrics guessing-game, because not everything has to be serious.

Recently Published

Black and white landscape photograph from the Blue Ridge Parkway. On the left in the foreground stands the trunk of a weathered, very dead tree with practically no branches; those that are left are near the top, and resemble twisted, broken fingers.

Amazon Strolls Into Mordor

| They ignored the obvious risks, but now the risks have become consequences and they’re looking for someone else to blame.

Monochrome photograph of pueblo ruins in a desert mesa landscape. The image has a brownish cast and is rather dreamlike.

Art sources

| Good places to find free(ish) artwork for blog posts.

Illustration of a cemetery at night. The headless figure of the ghost of Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat, walks in foreground towards the left wearing a monk's robes. He holds his head in his left hand and a walking stick in his right.

Ghost (and back again)

| After years of running static sites, I had a brief flirtation with a hosted service.

Full Circle

| Wanting more interactivity on my blog, even at a minimal level, has made static site generators more trouble than I want to deal with.

Friday’s Ten Lyrics