Blog, portfolio, and résumé for David Hepworth, a front-end Web developer in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.
Maybe I’m late to this, but it seems as if maybe America has never been the great country its history books has proclaimed it to be. In fact, we might even be the villain of the story. No wonder so many men in the United States think about Rome regularly: we might be its next iteration. Moon Channel Ka-Pow: America, Propaganda, and the Illusion of Soft Power The United States is the best at soft…
I’ve only made it about an hour into this documentary and it is already a highlight of 2026 for me. This is an incredibly well-documented history of Creationism throughout written history and I think it’s important for people — Christian and non-Christian — to watch. Gutsick Gibbon DARWINIANA | How Science and Religion Killed Creationism Why did fire-erupted lands arrive? Why did murderous animals…
My introduction to Teenage Engineering came with glimpses on YouTube videos of their original OP-1 synthesizer in TikTok videos and YouTube Shorts, more as a marvel at a price point that seemed to defy sensibility. Further items that came across my algorithms were their ludicrous grip car or their over-engineered radio which again reiterated the imbalance of usefulness to price and how unlikely I…
On Tuesday, the “Oklahoma Standard” presented by the voters carried a stark contrast to the initiative’s propaganda: when challenged to have empathy and consideration for their fellow citizens, those who even bothered to vote made a majority decision to hide behind technicalities and equivocations to avoid the discomfort of thinking about anyone but themselves. For a state inundated with…
I built up my collection of books for my own interests; many of these are healing from my past where I felt fooled into accepting weak answers. In many cases I collect books on the chance I meet someone similar to my younger self who might benefit from better instruction. I also thought I could use this new knowledge to challenge others who have accepted the simplistic and inaccurate answers fed…
There was a time early in the AI usage increase that I struggled to find articles from writers who were speaking out against LLMs, so I collected as many as I could and saved them for the moments where I needed to share some of my reasoning for finding prolific AI use so troubling. But now in early 2026 I find myself overwhelmed: I can’t keep up with the newsletter posts, industry experts, or the…
Remember those “infomercials” that would play on late-night TV? The spokesperson would make shocking claims about the product and how it could solve a problem that you didn’t even know you had. When customers received these “too good to be true” products they’d be dismayed to learn these items couldn’t be found in stores because once the truth was apparent all desire to own the product would…
After having so much fun making a mini site for the Constellation Browser version of the site for the Panic Playdate I decided to make one for the application Hopper . My Gemini capsule is now up at gemini://dhepworth.smol.pub and the Gopher version is up at gopher://smol.pub/1/dhepworth , but you can see the capsule in your web browser at https://dhepworth.smol.pub .
Some of my recent posts were a bit heavy so I wanted to find something less challenging to share on this blog. I have taken many photos in my life and have many favorites, so I decided to share some of them here. I didn’t include any portraits or photos with people in them because I wanted to protect their privacy, but I also prefer landscapes and still life. Give this list of images a horizontal…
I was raised with a fundamentalistic theological view of Revelation, where I was to study modern-day political events to try to find the clues to prove my particular prophetic interpretation of the book. It was therefore unconscionable for me to consider that the book of Revelation could be about anything but a future event. So much of the Bible interpretation I used was to present the events of…