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Why

I believe that one should control one’s writing and photographs, and this site is my home on the web for those things. I frequently post them other places too, but they generally start here. Other platforms are ephemeral—as evidenced by the many broken links here to things I found interesting in the past, but which weren’t cared for by their publisher—so I try not to post elsewhere, except as a copy.

What

This site has been powered by a number of different technology stacks over the years. It is currently implemented as a custom CMS I call Herringbone, which is written with the wonderful (if unfortunately out of vogue) Ruby on Rails. Herringbone is not currently open sourced, mostly because I’m constantly experimenting on it—it’s my playground to try new things. I wouldn't want anyone else to rely on it, so I don’t make it accessible to others. Maybe that will change someday.

The somewhat sparse design is my own. It leans heavily on the personality and style of the fonts Klavika Condensed and Elena from Process Type Foundry, which look especially lovely when rendered on a Retina/high-resolution display.

How

The site lived for a long time on a Mac Mini, physically co-located in a data center in Las Vegas. It is now deployed as a Docker container to Hetzner's cloud service. While I somewhat miss the idea that I had a server somewhere that was dedicated to whatever I wanted to play with, this is much more flexible and easy to maintain. And it’s cheaper, to boot.

When

You can look back on all the things I've written here, indexed by year and month, in the archive. Or you can browse by topic in the tag index. If you'd like to follow me, you can subscribe to my RSS feed. I frequently post versions of what I write here on social media, and you can find an up-to-date list of where else you can find me online on my about page.