Wesley’s Notebook
a place for thoughts to grow
- The “Resonant Computing Manifesto” is not very good
- A Year Later: Getting Kicked out of the Recurse Center
- Replacing the Anubis CGM Battery
- Recently
- 2023 in Books
- A little bit of magic for the nonbelievers
- Scattered ChatGPT thoughts
- 2022 in Books
- Remembering Steve Inness
- Starwatching
- Recently
- In Control
- A few things that could be poetry
- Petit Bourgeois & Amazon Reselling
- Words, Definitions, and Prescriptivism
- Annotations
- A IndieWeb Request
- Interconnections
- Recently
- Tech, Industry
- How Websites Die
- Neurodiversity
- On Cryptocurrency
- Recently
- On Feeds
- Servers and Desire
- Recently
- “The” Self
- Recently
- Reactionary
- Bike Trip
- History and Globalization
- Recently
- Identity and Decentralization
- Friendships, Online and In Person
- Respecting Complexity
- Art and Engineering
- Everyone loves collecting data, nobody loves analyzing it later
- Recently
- Reading Aloud
- Learning How to Ride a Bike
- IndieWeb Thoughts: POSSE
- Treating Depression
- Tragedy of the Commons
- The Lobster (2015)
- Bitcoin and Gold
- A Few NYC Places
- How to Pirate Ebooks
- Piracy & Legal Monoculture
- Recent Books
- The Perfect Decisionmaking Structure
- Consciousness and Emulation
- A New York Secret
- Recent Life Improvements
- The Limits of Science
- Pandora’s Box and Collapse
- Belief
- Rewarding Curation
- Efficiency vs. Resiliency
- Fidget Websites
- The Sameness of Social Media
- Geometry Pedagogy
- Content
- 2020 Retrospective
- Small Websites & Internet Infrastructure
- Induced Demand
- Gender
- Better Things
- Creating Value
- Commodification
- Roots
- “Democratizing”
- Devs
- What Hypertext Could Be
- How to get a Taiwan Gold Card
- Taiwan
- Nuclear Waste & Optimism
- Social Media: Bad?
- Analysis, Agency, and Alienation
- Finding Things
- Mysterious and Beautiful Objects
- Birthdays
- What is “Hard Work?”
- Unwarranted Confidence
- Worlds Colliding
- Bubblegum Bitch
- Writing Substrates
- Computer Writing
- Font Licensing
- Notes on “Notes on the Synthesis of Form”
- Vexations and Meaning
- Sharing Old Ideas
- Crow Tools
- Keep Pedaling
- The Heritage of Tools
- The Hermit and The Magician
- Introduction
