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I almost called this page “Notes”, in homage to Nadia’s Notes, but the semantics of that word are just too wide. Everything on this site is a note of some kind. The best description of this place is something like “Twitter of my own” and Nadia’s words:

I often scribble half-baked ideas, reactions to things I’ve read, or something useful I’ve heard. Sometimes they turn into longer blog posts or projects, but most of them sit in my notes app, unused. … (Please note: you are crawling my brain. These are rough notes, which means ideas are experimental and conviction level is highly variable!)

I still use my Stream for quick storage (capturing quotes, work screenshots, and throwaway ideas), my Twitter for reaction-posting, and Bluesky for…stuff. This page is another entry in the genre, but one that I own outright.

And where I have even less concern for quality, since nobody is subscribed to it. There isn’t even a special RSS feed for it; all readers arrive here intentionally.

2026

03 • March • 11:12 PM

I should probably start selling a service like “why you don’t actually use your personal website” more explicitly with my Webcraft sites. Mostly because I’m annoyed at abondoned websites, and particularly annoyed when they’re websites I’ve made.

I’ve seen enough failure modes to have fixes for the most common ones, and am especially sensitive to things that are likely to be Ugh Field generators.

03 • March • 9:20 PM

I’m bad at reading DD-MM-YYYY style dates because my brain doesn’t convert numbers into months fast enough. And almost every way to write the actual month name alongside a date just looks funny to me:

  • “14 March” reads as “one three march”
  • “14th March” is almost nice enough but semantically wrong
  • “March the 14th” is just too much

So DD • Month is my chosen compromise, it’s sufficiently quirky while remaining functional, with good whitespace to boot.

03 • March • 7:32 PM

I just set up this page, and am already feeling the useful effects of it’s existence. In particular, each time I start typing here, I’m nudged into one of either:

  • tweeting out the thought
  • drafting a Riff instead
  • framing things in a way that’s slightly more polished than I would if writing to just myself (which usually takes the form of a lazy fragment)

The reason this is good is because putting in just a little extra effort seems to improve both my thinking and the verbal expression of said thinking. And this place is low effort enough that I actually start writing more often. If it graduates out of here to another place, all the better. If it doesn’t, it’s still somewhere and the stakes are low.