A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

The people behind Bullet Journal spent the last 12 months making the website impossible to use for everyone who might want to learn about bullet journalling and better for everyone who wants to spend $1000 on a course

There’s never been a shortage of posts about quitting blogging in the blogging community. I’ve contributed a few myself over the years.

It’s been a while ...

The breadcrumbs were terrible for Hansel and Gretel, yet we still use the term

“Technology doesn’t need liberation, people do.”

Jason Snell has published the results from his annual survey of a panel of Apple observers and, as I expected, there seems to be wide agreement that the company’s software quality is not up to scratch thanks primarily to Liquid Glass. This year’s average score of 2.7 for operating system quality and 3.1 for first-party […]

A call to action for the 99% of internet users who consume but never create. If that's you (and it most likely is), then please read and consider what I'm asking."

Where do we go when the internet dies?

I enjoy reading on my Kobo Sage a lot. Before the Sage, I had the Libra H2O. That device went to my wife when she gifted me the Sage. The ability to

"It's never too late to start growing."

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A living hub of blogging tips, tools, and inspiration — from design and writing to ideas and add-ons. Updated often with good stuff worth exploring.

An examination of the modern consumption trap and a passionate argument for creating as much as we consume. From digital minimalism to analog practices, from solo creation to community building, this essay explores practical ways to reclaim our creative agency and resist the forces that keep us scrolling, buying, and passive.

Come be bored with me. Utterly bored. Within the default mode network, Heidegger's philosophy, Indigenous dream epistemologies, and personal experiences with hypnagogic states.

I think we might be at the dawn of a new age of tiny little devices, mostly open-source and open-hardware; and I think there are several factors that could trigger it.

A beginner-friendly guide to building your own homelab on inexpensive hardware. Covers finding old computers, setting up Linux, SSH, Docker, and self-hosting services like password managers, RSS readers, and your own Fediverse instance. Digital sovereignty doesn't require expensive equipment.