brennan.day

I was five years old, sitting on a dark green shag carpet in my home in Winnipeg, witnessing the television the way everyone else was.

With news of DigitalOcean deciding to give $3 million dollars to Omarchy and DHH, I thought it would be fitting to once again take a look at alternative visions of what our Internet can be.

Buckle up.

Another month, yet another technical tutorial and audit of my website.

It's the sixth of September already, somehow.

The title of this post comes from the last line of Joseph Fasano's poem "For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper", but to me, it encompasses so much more than that.

For my entire life, I have been aware that I must die, and that my time alive is finite.

I'm somebody who's written rather extensively on generative AI ethics, and I feel there is a lot that is unethical about the current corporate climate and culture surrounding the technology.

I really miss chain-letter-style questionnaires, which I often participated in on sites like deviantART and Nexopia many years ago.

In the past few days, Debian has held a lengthy and rather bureaucratic vote on how the project will handle genAI and LLM contributions moving forward.

When I first began this blog last year, it was meant to be a silly place where I allowed myself to draft rough ideas and prose experiments.

As you may be aware if you're a regular reader of my blog, I love learning, studying, and academia.

August is ending, and yet today's high is going to be 28+°C, that unseasonable summer air in early fall.

A few days ago, I noticed on Umami that there was a small uptick of referrals coming from Reddit, so I searched the site for my URL and found this lovely little post in r/IndieWeb recommending me and James.

It was near the end of April when I interviewed the creator of Bubbles.town, Benjamin Behnke, and I feel as though I've been using the platform for enough time to give a more long-term review of it now.

If you take a look at my website's homepage, you'll note that it's titled "Brennan's Weblog."

Yesterday, I posted a couple toots sharing some rather heated exchanges I had with anonymous blogger Unstory, who I previously failed to interview properly.

Une "listicle" populaire qu'on retrouve pas mal partout sur Internet, c'est les mots et expressions d'autres langues qui n'ont pas de traduction directe vers l'anglais.

Around a month ago, I wrote an article about accessible approaches to the IndieWeb and meeting people where they are.

It's been a while since I allowed myself to just pour freely onto the page.

If you've been on the Internet, you've seen someone venting.

Abstract: This post argues that a personal website can function as a citable, open-access publication, then walks through how to do it: register an ORCID, apply to Rogue Scholar for DOI and archive mirroring, add issue numbers and ISSN metadata, generate…

I can finally say I've really made it—I'm currently the target of circlejerk.blog (archive).

A week ago, when I was working on my project for HTML Day 2026 I stumbled upon this passage from an essay on blink and marquee tags: At the time, there was a new breed of web professionals proudly labeled “webmasters.”

During my time on the omg.lol IRC channel (a place I find inspiration for many posts, it seems!)

If you've ever been in a heated argument, odds are you've come up with a clever response only after several hours had passed.

It's been awhile since my last essay on religion, and while I've shared my personal testimony and death rituals from around the world, I haven't written about the fascinating origins of religion.

The United States has marked 250 years since the Declaration of Independence this year, a nation in decline, which includes the infamous line of the unalienable rights given to all people: "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" [1] But what does it…

I have been mulling over free speech since my previous post on the topic.

Have you heard of ball lightning?

On December 2nd, 1938, an issue of The Minneapolis Star first wrote the phrase "keep it simple, stupid."

I wrote a guest post for The Sprout, the blog of the Calgary Vegan Society, about navigating social eating situations as a vegan.

A couple days ago, I wrote the blog post titled "Five Interesting Indie Platforms You Might Not Have Heard Of".

I discovered today that my blog post from yesterday didn't post automatically to my Mastodon account—which I assumed was due to an error made.

It's already been almost a month (how??)

There are a handful of albums that I've listened to front-to-back over and over hundreds of times throughout my life.

If you can't tell, I've been trying to scratch an itch.

I love YouTube, I confess I love watching dozens, if not hundreds, of channels regularly.

Of course, for my first post of Blaugust, what would I be writing about other than blogging?

It's the final day of July, and I'm in a contemplative mood.

I have been a computer nerd my entire life.

I don't think I'm wearing rose-coloured glasses when I say the industry is in a really cynical, exploitative state.

Yesterday, Coyote wrote about the problems with Bubbles.town and more generally, feed aggregators that sort by popular vote.

Salut, pis bienvenue dans mon post mensuel 100% en français!

Continuing where I left off yesterday writing about Beeminder, I realized that there were a couple goals/systems that I needed to modify due to how various integration options and API have changed.

It's been just over a week since I deleted all my corporate social media accounts and, honestly?

🚨 MAJOR SPOILERS for Better Call Saul and Attack on Titan.

Vibe coding has added yet another layer of abstraction to programming.

Yesterday, Unattributed posted a long response and dissection of my article What have note-taking PKMs accomplished, really?

Yesterday, omg.lol founder (and overall wonderful person) Adam Newbold posted a guide titled "Hardcore IndieWeb", where he went over how anybody can start their own fully independent website for only $0.01 USD per day thanks to the hosting solution Nearly…