are you electronic

about

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 18:36:00 -0700

It’s the about page.

link like simon

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:13:00 -0700

Simon Willison asked for it, and I think it is a good low effort way to share what’s interesting, useful, or just cool. He had some suggestions which I want to pull out here too (but I’m paraphrasing):

Include the names of the people who created the content.

Try to add something extra.

Be liberal with quotations.

If the original author(s) read my post, they should feel good about it.

I’m also trying to prove that I read the original post.

I might include screenshots too.

rss club

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:27:00 -0700

I’m joining RSS Club because I’ve loved RSS feeds since before Google killed the Reader. Follow the feed to get more “secret” posts!

style test

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 09:26:00 -0700

section heading

Lorem Ipsum Dolet etc.

a
b
c
😄

This has a footnote¹.

a footnote. ↩︎

hello

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This is the first post on this blog.

It’s mostly a writing experiment. Expect short notes, the occasional longer piece, and very little else. The styling is intentionally close to raw markdown: monospace, narrow column, a horizontal rule between sections, and not much chrome.

If you’re seeing this, the site is up.

on monospace

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Most prose on the web uses proportional fonts because that’s what books do. But a blog isn’t a book. The unit of writing is the paragraph, not the page, and reading speed is gated more by the screen than by the typeface.

Monospace flips a few small things in your favor:

The column has a natural width — about 80 characters — that you don’t have to think about.
Inline code doesn’t visually shift the line.
The text looks like a draft, which lowers the stakes of publishing.

The downside is that long-form prose can feel relentless. So far the trade seems fine for short posts.

why hugo

Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

A short list of why this site is built with Hugo:

One binary, no runtime. Builds in milliseconds.
Tags are a built-in taxonomy. No plugin needed.
The templates are ugly but small, which is fine for a site this minimal.

Search is provided by Pagefind, which runs after the Hugo build and generates a static index. No server, no Algolia, no Lunr shoved into the page.

search

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