Sitemap

Catalog

Fanfic

• At Ease, Soldier: a fanfic about Bucky Barnes reclaiming himself.

Zines

• Splendid SciFi: a curated collection of must-read science fiction books.

Lists

Reflections

• 100 Things That Made My 2025: what I'm grateful for in the year.
• 35 Things That Made My 2024: what I appreciated in the year.

Site Directories

• Crosswinds + Currents: a directory of sites by people living in or from Asia/the Pacific.
• Fanfic Writers Collective: a directory of folks with sites writing fanfiction.
• Guestbooks Galore: a directory of personal sites that host guestbooks.
• Oceania Web Atlas: a directory of sites by people living in or from Oceania.
• Proust Questionnaire: a directory of sites featuring answers to the Proust Questionnaire.
• Queer Web Directory: a directory of sites by queer folks around the world.
• Static HTML Site Directory: a directory of sites running on Static HTML files.
• Title Traders: a directory of folks willing to trade blog post titles as a collaborative effort.

Webrings

• Star Wars Webring: for folks who enjoy Star Wars.
• Vintage Car Webring: connecting vintage car aesthetics and design enthusiasts.

Notes

Challenges

• 40 Questions To Ask Every Year (2025): a guided list of reflections for the year.
• 50 Tiny Cogs: things that give my life meaning.
• Facts About Me: twenty facts about me, inspired by Peige and Becky's posts.
• Music Questions Challenge: a little insight into my musical tastes.
• Proust's Questionnaire: my answers to these time-honored questions.
• Sandwich Questionnaire: exploring preferences and the joy of stuff between bread.
• Ten Pointless Things About Me: a compilation of useless yet fun facts.
• The Colbert Questionert: my answers to these fifteen questions.

Collaborative

• Fanfiction Conversation With Sara Jaksa: a discussion of fan culture and writing.
• Literature Conversation With Sara Jaksa: a bookish discussion.
• Painting Impressions With James: where we chose and shared our thoughts on artworks.

Fiction

• Tear Me Down, Build Me Back Up: a short experimental prose poem.

Goal Setting

• Goals For 2025: things I wish to achieve.
• Goals For 2026: what I want to do.

Indieweb Carnivals

Book Club

• Broad Band by Claire L. Evans: a review of the women who made the internet, this month's IndieWeb Book Club pick.
• Indieweb Book Club: Oct 2025: the Creative Act by Rick Rubin

Indieweb Carnival

• Curiosity As A Form Of Life-Giving: a love letter to curiosity.
• IndieWeb Carnival Roundup: Feb 2026: it's come to a close.
• IndieWeb Carnival: Feb 2026: the theme is Intersecting Interests.
• The Unexpected Ambassador: to exist is to explain.

Indieweb Fiction Carnival

• IndieWeb Fiction Carnival Roundup: Feb 2026: it's come to a close.
• IndieWeb Fiction Carnival: Feb 2026: the prompt is: we've got to dream past it.

Movie Club

• Indieweb Movie Club: Apr 2025: the Castle (1997)
• Indieweb Movie Club: Sep 2025: the Wild Robot (2024)

Interviews

• People and Blogs: the story of Manuel Moreale's interview series, and a complete index of every conversation collected here.
• People and Blogs: Adrianna Tan: for the introvert who would always rather write than speak.
• People and Blogs: Alex Sirac: from a butterfly-strewn French pre-teen blog to now.
• People and Blogs: Alexandra: the library of alexandra, where she rambles as long as she likes.
• People and Blogs: Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino: a designer who hated PHP and kept blogging anyway, since 2005.
• People and Blogs: Alexandra Wolfe: stumbling from MySpace into hand-built HTML, like everyone did.
• People and Blogs: Alice: The Wallflower Digest, born from boredom and a need for a goal.
• People and Blogs: Alison Wilder: an outlet to write, and a secret hope of being a real writer.
• People and Blogs: Ana Rodrigues: travel notes that grew into something personal, and why the name changed.
• People and Blogs: Andrea Contino: from a 2007 FIFA press trip to a blog that stuck.
• People and Blogs: Andrew Stephens: contributing his own content to the web, because it seemed only fair.
• People and Blogs: Anh: a shy nerd's comfortable drift toward oversharing online.
• People and Blogs: Anne Sturdivant: several blogs, a long burnout, and the way back to the web.
• People and Blogs: Annie Mueller: a lifelong journaler who blogged her way out of the platforms.
• People and Blogs: Anthony Nelzin-Santos: growing up at the dawn of the web, before anyone knew its shape.
• People and Blogs: Anton Podviaznikov: a site born from falling in love with the web itself.
• People and Blogs: Arun Venkatesan: on how every blog could be vastly different, unlike a book.
• People and Blogs: Ava: documenting the tinkering — until life had other plans.
• People and Blogs: BSAG: a technically-minded weblog, kept since the 'weblog' days of 2002.
• People and Blogs: Ben Borgers: high-school programming posts that quietly found an audience.
• People and Blogs: Ben Werdmuller: blogging since 1998, careening across platforms he often built himself.
• People and Blogs: Benji: past a graveyard of abandoned project blogs, one that stays.
• People and Blogs: Bix Frankonis: a modern blogging era reclaimed, one bix.blog post at a time.
• People and Blogs: Blake Watson: hooked on making websites since a high-school sports site.
• People and Blogs: Brad Barrish: from a 2001 blog to a music site that found its people.
• People and Blogs: Brian Koberlein: a scientist's web pages — most lost to entropy, one that stuck.
• People and Blogs: Cassidy Williams: nearly twenty years of writing down everything she learns.
• People and Blogs: Chris Butler: the lifelong urge to keep a record of some kind.
• People and Blogs: Chris Coyier: the plain obviousness that everyone should have a personal website.
• People and Blogs: Chris DeLuca: writing through a leukemia diagnosis and a crashed economy.
• People and Blogs: Chris O'Donnell: a blog and a career, intertwined since New Year's Eve 1995.
• People and Blogs: Cory Dransfeldt: recovering a decade of posts and a love of the indie web.
• People and Blogs: Courtney: a decades-long discomfort with the word 'blog'.
• People and Blogs: Dalton Mabery: writing because the people he admires in history always did.
• People and Blogs: Daniel Miller: a public notebook, kept in the spirit of personal knowledge management.
• People and Blogs: Dave Rupert: the third incarnation of a blog that began as a high-school zine.
• People and Blogs: David Cain: Raptitude — a blog about getting better at being human.
• People and Blogs: David Wertheimer: a personal page from 1996, when the web reinvented itself monthly.
• People and Blogs: Denny Henke: a community activist's zines, carried onto the web.
• People and Blogs: Derek Sivers: after selling CD Baby, a new place to share his thoughts.
• People and Blogs: Dominik Schwind: learning HTML from a game manual, before he even had the internet.
• People and Blogs: Donny Truong: blogging since 2003 to master a second language through design.
• People and Blogs: Eli Mellen: writing online for good and ill, as long as he's been online.
• People and Blogs: Em: from avid lurker to her own blog, on an unremarkable Saturday.
• People and Blogs: Emma Goto: writing her way into confidence as a programmer.
• People and Blogs: Eric Schwarz: a software 'business' name from his TRS-80 days, reborn as a blog.
• People and Blogs: Erica Fustero: from punk-rock forums to LiveJournal, Fotolog, and beyond.
• People and Blogs: Frances: a fresh burst of indie-web enthusiasm, decades after Geocities.
• People and Blogs: Frank Chimero: a designer-teacher thinking out loud about his craft.
• People and Blogs: Frank Meeuwsen: the orange button in 2000 that first introduced him to blogs.
• People and Blogs: Frills: pulled into the IndieWeb by sprawling links upon links.
• People and Blogs: Georgie Cooke: from a Neopets ban to a lifelong coding playground.
• People and Blogs: Giles Turnbull: a journalist who learned HTML to cover the web, then never stopped.
• People and Blogs: Herman Martinus: a writer who built Bear Blog to keep the words simple.
• People and Blogs: Hyde Stevenson: from Debian how-tos in 2001 to a long life writing online.
• People and Blogs: JF Martin: the Numeric Citizen, and a life lived in cyberspace.
• People and Blogs: JTR: a quest to learn technology, recorded one note at a time.
• People and Blogs: Jack Baty: which blog? the late-90s habit he could never quit.
• People and Blogs: James: a place to write and tinker, found alongside the IndieWeb.
• People and Blogs: James A. Reeves: from Big American Night to crisscrossing a paranoid America.
• People and Blogs: Jamie Crisman: rebuilding the blog from scratch to learn each new language.
• People and Blogs: Jamie Thingelstad: a domain registered in 1999, and a blog that grew into it.
• People and Blogs: Jatan Mehta: sharing the excitement of space, one post at a time, since seventeen.
• People and Blogs: Jedda: an angsty teenager's words, carried across a dozen platforms.
• People and Blogs: Jennifer Devastatia del Gato: not a blog, not a blogger — just a refusal of the social media paradigm.
• People and Blogs: Jeremy Keith: from band sites in 1990s Germany to a cornerstone of the IndieWeb.
• People and Blogs: Jessica Nickelsen: several blogs, some books, and the 'real' one at discombobulated.
• People and Blogs: Jim Nielsen: from Photoshop shitposts to two decades of web writing.
• People and Blogs: Justin Duke: a résumé-padding tech blog he unexpectedly fell for.
• People and Blogs: Karen: blogging since the 'weblog' and 'online journal' days of 2001.
• People and Blogs: Kathleen Fisher: an annual Christmas-card spoof that turned into a love of writing.
• People and Blogs: Keenan: a lifelong search for a little place that's perfectly him.
• People and Blogs: Kev Quirk: longform over hot takes, from one of Fosstodon's founders.
• People and Blogs: Kris Howard: from a dreaded dining-hall job to learning HTML and never stopping.
• People and Blogs: Lars-Christian Simonsen: hooked at a Norwegian internet café in 1995, and online ever since.
• People and Blogs: Linda Ma: on the sudden, surprising need to write in public.
• People and Blogs: Loren Stephens: several blogs, and the one that stuck after switching to Apple.
• People and Blogs: Lou Plummer: a 90s GeoCities blog named after an obscure ballplayer.
• People and Blogs: Louie Mantia: a fifteen-year-old's PHP-powered site, proudly his own.
• People and Blogs: Lucy Bellwood: a gap-year travel blog at seventeen that's somehow still up.
• People and Blogs: Luke Harris: a spot all his own, inspired by forum signature links.
• People and Blogs: Manton Reece: twenty years of blogging, and the platform he built to keep it going.
• People and Blogs: Marco Giancotti: interdisciplinary musings from an 'undercover physics' career.
• People and Blogs: Marisabel Munoz: a Java-learning log that grew right alongside her career.
• People and Blogs: Marty Day: a webcomic, a breakup, and a corner of the web to call his own.
• People and Blogs: Matt Stein: the Matt Stein who got to mattstein.com first.
• People and Blogs: Matt Webb: blogging since 2000, back when he was building web toys like Dirk.
• People and Blogs: Matthew Graybosch: a place to live online and share his fiction, since 1996.
• People and Blogs: Max Kapur: a pianist's blog, started to own his own Google results.
• People and Blogs: Maya: an eavesdropper's notebook, for the worlds moving parallel to ours.
• People and Blogs: Melanie Richards: on the web, design, and a years-long monthly Learning Log.
• People and Blogs: Naz Hamid: inspired by the Blogger pioneers, online since 1999.
• People and Blogs: Nic Chan: blogging to prove a freelancer is a real, trustworthy person.
• People and Blogs: Nick Heer: Pixel Envy, stripped to text so the focus could be the writing.
• People and Blogs: Nick Simson: a design-portfolio requirement that turned into a lasting site.
• People and Blogs: Nicola Losito: an early Italian blogger, posting since Splinder in 2003.
• People and Blogs: Nicolas Magand: ten years, many platforms, and a switch from French to English.
• People and Blogs: Nicolas Solerieu: a domain of vowel-less initials, and a wish to stay a little hidden.
• People and Blogs: Nikhil Anand: blogging since 2003, in the lineage of Kottke and Zeldman.
• People and Blogs: Nikita Prokopov: from heated LiveJournal debates to writing under his own name.
• People and Blogs: Om Malik: an early believer that publishing to the network is what matters.
• People and Blogs: Patrick Rhone: Rhoneisms — kept since 2003, with roots reaching back even further.
• People and Blogs: Pauline P. Narvas: from a RuneScape dream to a journey through tech, written down.
• People and Blogs: Peter Rukavina: catching himself in about-page clichés, and writing his way out.
• People and Blogs: Phil Gyford: a personal site since 1995, and the SXSW trip that made it a blog.
• People and Blogs: Piper Haywood: test content for a Tumblr theme that became a decade of recording.
• People and Blogs: Piri: a designer who can't remember a time without a blog.
• People and Blogs: Ploum: online since 1998, from a hand-updated journal to a popular wiki.
• People and Blogs: RMF: an update box that grew rantier until it became a blog.
• People and Blogs: Rachel J. Kwon: blogging since the early 2000s, dead URLs and teenage cringe left behind.
• People and Blogs: Rachel Smith: the seventh attempt at a blog, and the one that lasted.
• People and Blogs: Ran Prieur: from photocopied zines to a column that outlasted them all.
• People and Blogs: Ray Thomas: a sailor father's photo albums, scanned and given a home online.
• People and Blogs: Rebecca Toh: hand-coding daily Geocities tables since she was thirteen.
• People and Blogs: Riccardo Mori: from Usenet and LiveJournal to a long life watching Apple.
• People and Blogs: Robb Knight: after a graveyard of abandoned blogs, the one that finally stuck.
• People and Blogs: Robert Birming: blogging since 2002, from a blog once called 'Smidigt'.
• People and Blogs: Robert Kingett: an unapologetic blog that refuses to be beholden to any platform.
• People and Blogs: Robin Rendle: on the liberation of owning the writing, the design, the domain.
• People and Blogs: Romina Malta: a slower space to think through writing, always in progress.
• People and Blogs: Ryan: online since 1994 — only the second student on his college's server.
• People and Blogs: Sara Jakša: a blog that began over coffee after a Toastmasters meeting.
• People and Blogs: Sara Joy: she'll just keep typing — about herself, since 1999.
• People and Blogs: Sebastián Monía: finally blogging, after years of thinking it was for the more qualified.
• People and Blogs: Seth Werkheiser: back to blogging in 2018, salvaging old words from the Wayback Machine.
• People and Blogs: Simone Silvestroni: a blog born from grief, and the writing that helped him through.
• People and Blogs: Stefano Verna: a Blogger-era blog where he even met his future wife.
• People and Blogs: Stephanie Stimac: from a high-school LiveJournal to writing about the web itself.
• People and Blogs: Steve Ledlow: collapsing exhausting multiple blogs into one tangible life.
• People and Blogs: Steven Garrity: Acts of Volition, started with friends in the year 2000.
• People and Blogs: Steyn Viljoen: from a consciousness coach's first posts to many iterations since.
• People and Blogs: Taylor Troesh: digital notebooks online, born from a fudged resume.
• People and Blogs: Toby Shorin: deepening design discourse from the sub-pixel up.
• People and Blogs: Tom Critchlow: from teenage Elfwood poetry and poker forums to writing on his own terms.
• People and Blogs: Tom MacWright: writing online since 2010, in the footsteps of the blogs he loved.
• People and Blogs: Tracy Durnell: a digital garden that makes room for the incomplete.
• People and Blogs: V.H. Belvadi: from a magazine explainer to hand-coded pages and a lasting blog.
• People and Blogs: Veronique: enchanted by the quiet corners of the web, she made her own.
• People and Blogs: Watts Martin: Coyote Tracks — musings on tech, an absurdly long time in the making.
• People and Blogs: Westley Winks: a blog as your brain, over time, on the internet.
• People and Blogs: Winnie Lim: from a Geocities page at fifteen to a quietly enduring blog.
• People and Blogs: Xanthe Tynehorne: born with the internet in her blood, at the tail end of Geocities.
• People and Blogs: Yancey Strickler: a music journalist with more opinions than places to print them.
• People and Blogs: Zinzy: personal websites as rooms, as homes that outlast the feed.

Reflections

• Blog Questions Challenge 2025: my answers to the questions posed.
• Did We Lose Something In The Third Dimension: on 2D animation's quiet disappearance.
• Emerging Writers Festival (2025): notes from attending in September 2025.
• Liminal Festival (2024): what I took from the conversations.
• Mildura Writers Festival (2024): what I learned from attending.
• Minds Within Mine: what my characters might say about me.
• What Is This Feeling, If Not Love?: i do this all the time. And not in the conventional sense.

Resources

• How To Join The IndieWeb Wiki: a step-by-step guide to joining.
• Punchy Prose: words I watch for in my writing, to replace/remove for stronger prose.
• Site Ideas: suggestions for what to put on your site.
• Things To Do While Waiting: liminal time isn't a curse. It's an opportunity.
• Things You'd Perhaps Enjoy: things I wish to share with you, hoping you'll enjoy them.
• Writing Sparks: prompts for braving the blank page.

Trades

• A Sense Of Place: what a strange concept when your existence always oscillates.
• An Endless Summer Doesn't Seem Romantic Anymore: missing the mythic summer break.
• Authenticity On The Web: why does it mean so many conflicting things on the internet?
• Consciousness Is The Most Expensive Accident: on the cost of noticing.
• How Travel Is An Engine For Writing: i thought about how it makes me a better writer.
• My 2025 Goals So Far: let's do a six-month review and see how I went!
• My Fondest Childhood Memory: on teaching myself history through Horrible Histories.
• No Going Back: if you search for me on social media, you won't find me.
• Shot Silk And Sapphire Spiders: if there's one thing I need, it's finding joy in nuance.
• Syzygy: when encountering this, I didn't know its pronunciation, let alone its meaning!
• The Fictional Worlds I'd Live In: if I had a one-way ticket, where would I go?
• The Notification I Look Forward To The Most: how do I do this phrase justice?
• The Strangest Thing Happened The Other Day...: a list of things noticed.
• Weaving A Closer-Knit Web: on the collaborative nature of the internet.

Offerings

Services

• Beta Reading: beta reading services for fiction and non-fiction.
• Blog & Newsletter Setup: blog and newsletter setup services for writers and creatives.
• Editing: professional editing services for fiction and non-fiction.
• Ghostwriting: ghostwriting services for fiction and non-fiction.
• Sensitivity Reading: sensitivity reading services for fiction and non-fiction.
• Website Making: delightful personal websites built with static HTML.
• Workshops: creative workshops covering drawing, writing, worldbuilding, and zine-making.
• Zine-Making: custom zine-making services for your creative projects.

Pages

About Me

• About: my mini autobiography, press, intentions, and wishes.
• Avatars: my representative avatars, created for fun's sake.
• Beverage: would you like to meet for one? I would!
• Defaults: the usual tools I use for various purposes.
• Homepage: my site. Explore my space fantasy writing, IndieWeb projects, and more.
• Interests: what fascinates me.
• Now: what I'm currently reading and working on.
• UnOffice Hours: i'd love to meet you for a video or audio call!
• Uses: the tech tooks I use + referral links for services I find useful (and you might too!)
• Wants: things and concepts I wish to embody.

Collections

Art

• Art: my portfolio of collages, digital art, drawings and gods eyes.
• Collages: the ones I've made from paper and glue.
• Digital Art: pieces I've drawn on the tablet/computer.
• Gods' Eyes: my portfolio of the ones I've made.
• Photos: my gallery of shots.

Curated

• Bookmarks: links I've found fascinating.
• Buttons: little buttons directing you to delightful web corners.
• Favorites: lists of my loves in various categories.
• Ideas: things I'd like to make and concepts that've caught my attention.
• Quotes: interesting sayings I've gathered.
• Recipes: tested, simplified favorites.
• Top 4: lists of my top three plus one.
• Words: interesting pieces of the English language.

Media

• Music: my favorite songs and three years of Spotify listening stats.
• Spotify: interesting listening stats from years past.
• Watched: an organized log of films, tv shows, and online videos I'd recommend.
• Wordle: a reverse-chronological log of my Wordle results.

Site Info

About Site

• Accessibility: what features this site has/are planned.
• Changelog: all site changes, reverse-chronologically.
• Cite: how to cite pages on my site, and how I cite personal sites on my blog.
• Colophon: more on this site, accessibility, internet principles, numbers, and esoterica.
• Principles: the things that guide my internet existence.
• Statistics: numbers and esoterica related to this site.

Community

• Guestbook: go on, sign it!
• Hello: details on contacting me: email, meet, message, or trade with me (please do!)
• Jots: my microblog, with occasional today-I-learned updates.
• Mentions: recording my webmentions: sent and recieved.
• Trades: what I'd love to trade with you and how to organize one.
• Webmentions: places the site's been mentioned on the internet.
• Webrings: all the ones this site belongs to.

Navigation

• Random: click this link to go to a random page on my site!
• Search: use it to find what you're looking for.
• Sitemap: a curated index of everything on my site.
• Subscribe: my RSS Feed and how to subscribe.
• Tags: browse pages by tag.

Useful Things

• Bookmarklets: useful snippets of Javascript.
• Save: hopefully useful discount and referral codes.

Tools

Puzzles

• 4x4 Sudoku Maker: a dynamically generated 4x4 Sudoku puzzle and its solution.
• 6x6 Sudoku Maker: a dynamically generated 6x6 Sudoku puzzle and its solution.
• 9x9 Sudoku Maker: a random 9x9 Sudoku and its solution.
• Circular Maze Maker: a random circular maze and its solution.
• Cryptogram Maker: input a sentence to create a cryptogram and its solution.
• Honeycomb Maze Maker: a random honeycomb maze and its solution.
• Mini Word Search Maker: input words to create a mini word search and its solution.
• Number Search Maker: input numbers to create a number search and its solution.
• Square Maze Maker: a random square maze and its solution.
• Word Search Maker: input words to create a word search and its solution.

Text

• Empty Line Remover: paste text to remove blank lines while preserving content.
• Line Break Remover: paste text to remove line breaks into a single clean paragraph.
• List Splitter: paste a list to split it into three roughly equal batches.
• Repeats Finder: paste text to find repeated phrases and word echoes.

Zines

• 8-Page Mini Zine Template: printable templates for folded mini zines.
• 8-Page Quarter Zine Template: printable templates for quarter-fold zines.