Notes

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archived awesome-static-generators today. new generators were turning up faster than I could review them, and a stale list isn’t much use to anyone.

it’ll be deleted on 1 november 2027, so fork it before then if you want to keep it going. I use Astro these days, if you are looking for a recommendation.

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I’m hosting Silent Reading Club at 1RG on the autumn equinox (Tuesday 22nd September at 6pm). Bring whatever you’re reading, find a comfy spot, and enjoy a few hours of quiet company with friends old and new. If you’re looking for something to read:

Into the dark by Kathleen Jamie, a winter spent hunting for actual darkness; quiet, beautiful prose.
In Praise of Shadows by Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, shadow as something to value rather than banish.
Total Eclipse by Annie Dillard, light leaving the world; the best “awe” essay in English.
The Book of Delights by Ross Gay, harvest and gratitude without the sentimentality.

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I’m speaking at Python Toronto’s July 23 Meetup on Personal Data Archaeology with Python. Almost every platform you use holds a slice of your life, all locked behind an API. The Dogsheep pattern (pioneered by Simon Willison) pulls that data into SQLite, where you can actually query it. I’ll share what I’ve learned building these tools.

Come say hi.

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Finished my first day at Relay today.

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I really want to like HyperTexting (an iOS app that will turn feeds into a scrollable social media interface), but when I first opened the app, it auto-subscribed me to 20+ feeds I have no interest in, and now the first post on the list is an ad to buy a sponsorship for their app.

I get that good software requires people to actually make money, but this is a little much for an app that hasn’t even shown me it’s worth using.

iOS screenshot of the HyperTexting app’s Timeline, showing a sponsored post — an advertisement from the verified @hypertexting.com account promoting their “Weekly Sponsorship Program.” The ad explains that advertisers can promote products to free users with text, links, images, audio, video, and PDF downloads, and that free users will see one sponsor per week, displayed once per day. Below the ad copy is a link preview card with a money bag emoji linking to hypertexting.com/sponsors.

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Built a docs site for astro-jsonfeed, powered by Starlight. Setup was painless. Took an afternoon.

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I built a new website, Yarrow. It pulls a three-card tarot spread every time you visit. A fun side-project built with Astro, Svelte, and Tailwind. I’ve got a bunch of ideas for it, but wanted to get a basic version out first.

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Love this poem I found:

They/Them
(dedicated to Nex Benedict)

If God created night & day
& dawn, of course
& dusk
& the tangerine rosepink sunset
& the deep amethyst twilight
& the infact bright of morning

the to perceive the world in binary is to forgo knowledge of the divine.

A printed poem on cream-coloured paper, photographed close up. The title reads "THEY/THEM" in small caps, with an italic dedication to Nex Benedict beneath it. The poem is set in a serif typeface, its lines built from ampersands as it moves through times of day — dawn, dusk, sunset, twilight, morning — before closing on a two-line stanza about binary perception and the divine.

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I’m hosting Silent Reading Club at 1RG on June 16 starting at 6pm. Bring whatever you’re reading, find a comfy spot, and enjoy a few hours of quiet company with friends old and new.

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I created my first NPM pcakge today for astro-jsonfeed, my Astro utility for genreating a JSON Feed. Check it out https://www.npmjs.com/package/astro-jsonfeed.

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I started working on an Astro utility to generate a JSON Feed for blogs, changelogs, or any chronological content. It’s called astro-jsonfeed (super original, I know).