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Brennan Kenneth Brown is a Queer Métis writer exploring Indigenous identity, digital culture, and creativity. Read essays on technology, craft, and human e…

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  1. The Pendulum Cycles
  2. I Am Relentless and Undaunted
  3. Thank You For Today
  4. Where the Sidewalk Ends
  5. Lyric Essays
  6. Support
  7. The Better Web / The Human Web / The Living Web
  8. Artificial Intelligence
  9. IndieWeb
  10. Plain-text Version
  11. Ode'imin: In Defence of the Berry Pickers
  12. Indigenous
  13. Major IndieWeb Services Now Have genAI and Claude Built-in. What Do We Do?
  14. RIVYAYR PIMICÎWAN: We Are Always Somewhere
  15. I Love Sharing Cool Stuff Made By People
  16. Community
  17. What Do You Stand For? What Do You Fall For?
  18. Politics
  19. Wintering: On Hiatus, Bill C-22, and Why I Don't Block People
  20. Plain-text Version
  21. Here Is a Person: Enter the Tildeverse
  22. Personal Favourites
  23. History
  24. Why I Write (and Care) About the Internet, and What So Many People Get Wrong
  25. Men, Don't Be Jaded Into Silence
  26. Culture
  27. A New Design: Tradition, Rituals, and Astrology
  28. Religion
  29. I've Never Wasted My Time Writing
  30. Writing Craft
  31. Kindness as First-class Citizen in Programming
  32. Man
  33. A Love Letter to the Super Dimension Fortress
  34. Technical Tutorials
  35. Static Site Generators for Beginners
  36. LLMs Democratize Extraction and Scale Malice
  37. Creating a Blog in Gemini://
  38. 'Would You Like to Reload a Previous Save?' (➤Yes / No)
  39. Proper English is a Myth: There's No 'Correct' Way to Write
  40. I, CEO: How Medium.com went from being anti-AI to pro-AI
  41. There is so much to love and celebrate. Reclaim joy. Be open. Forgive.
  42. It's Christlike to Love Immigrants and Transfolk
  43. Plain-text Version
  44. A Quarter of a Century Later
  45. Oldnets and Altnets: A Guide to Building a Low-Spec Daily Internet Out of Gemini, Gopher, and Terminal Tools
  46. How the Mysterious ScreenJesus can DDoS You
  47. More Mindful Web Development
  48. Tending the Garden I Have: A Current State of Affairs
  49. Love is for the ones who love the work.
  50. I Want to be Unremarkable
  51. Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $21.7 Million Given to DHH
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  59. 100 Questions for Webmasters
  60. SAD MACHINE
  61. A Few Small Things
  62. Creating an Open-source Blogging Studies Syllabus
  63. Notice: Bandwidth Exceeded
  64. Being a Toolshed of Optimism
  65. Bubbles.town: Four Months Later
  66. A 450-year History of Blogging
  67. I'm Looking for Love
  68. Le Flâneur, et Autres Mots Intraduisible
  69. French
  70. IndieWeb Ethos and Pagecord
  71. Writing By Accident & Surrendering On Purpose
  72. In Defence of Vent Posting
  73. A Guide to Becoming a Rogue Scholar
  74. Science
  75. Outjerked by the Trickster
  76. WEBMASTER@ a manifesto for everyone
  77. Advanced Webweaving: Auditing Against Specification.Website
  78. Confessions of a Maladaptive Daydreamer
  79. Suspect Happiness in Pursuit: An Anti-Interview with Unstory
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  81. 1 comment
  82. 2 comments
  83. What Remains? My AuguStory
  84. 1 comment
  85. REVIEW: Sufjan Stevens' Carrie and Lowell, Ten Years Later
  86. 4 comments
  87. 2 comments
  88. 1 comment
  89. Wow, I Love the 'Puter!
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  91. Playing the Games We Have
  92. Video Games that Secretly Teach Mathematics
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  94. 4 comments
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  98. Beeminder: Getting Back on the Horse
  99. It Was Always a Love Story, Actually
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  101. 3 comments
  102. far more insidious harms
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  104. Mea Culpa, When Somebody Writes Your Wrongs
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  107. People and blogs interview brennan kenneth brown
  108. 4 comments
  109. half a million words and 200 blog posts
  110. The True, Unglamorous Life of a Writer
  111. My Blogging Workflow: A routine for nearly a post a day for 4 months straight.
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  114. 300 Minutes a Month: Cutting My Eleventy Netlify Build Time in Half
  115. CLOWN BURNOUT
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  118. A Full Guide to Properly Delete Corporate Social Media Accounts
  119. Toonie Club
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  124. Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze?
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  126. To My Readers: What Do You Want To See More Of?
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  128. There Are People Who Would Give Anything For Your Ability to Read and Write
  129. The Fool's Autopsy
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  131. How Webmentions Work on brennan.day
  132. 1 comment
  133. Blogging with Magic Unicode: Simple Doesn't Have to Mean Boring!
  134. Why Make Your Website Accessible, Anyways?
  135. Fixing Work Imports from Other OTW-based Archives
  136. Shake Off the Dust!
  137. Love and Romance in the Times of Our Apocalypse
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  142. COMPULSION: The Writers Who Wrote The Most in History
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  156. Announcing My New Radio Show (a Love Letter to Public Access Television)
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  163. Poetry Saved My Life
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  165. That's Home. That's us.
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  169. The Blogging Übermensch, or, Being the Luckiest Person on Earth
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  183. Introducing the Toonie Club!
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  192. The Artist's Treadmill: Escaping the Scope Creep of Our Creative Lives
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  194. Announcing Fireweed Writing School
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  2. Building an Independent Literary Publication in 2025
  3. Why Start Again? On Cycles, Beginnings, and the Art of Returning
  4. Dawn of a New Day, Dawn of a New Year
  5. Worse than Wrestling with God
  6. Getting Things Up and Running
  7. Time to Fun Blog
  8. omg.lol is the Internet We Need Right Now
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  11. You will never do anything productive or meaningful with your life.
  12. I wrote two dozen articles on Medium in November. It made me a living wage.
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  15. …How the Hell do I Find Good Creators?
  16. The Current State of the Internet should TERRIFY You
  17. Mise en Place for Writers
  18. Want to Decolonize Your Writing?
  19. Want to be a good researcher? Go down rabbit holes.
  20. Yes, You Can Write about ANYTHING.
  21. This is how I’m making WRITING* my full-time career.
  22. The Dying Art of Having Something to Say
  23. The Architecture of Belonging
  24. I Analyzed 14 Years of My Writing with Vibe Coding.
  25. Walking Softly: Navigating the Transformation of a Writing Life
  26. Medium vs. Substack
  27. 29: Done.
  28. How Do We Fall in Love in the Future?
  29. From Digital to Analog
  30. What If You Created As Much As You Consume?
  31. OUR HYSTERICAL STRENGTH
  32. The Geometry of Writing
  33. Setting Up Decap CMS with Jekyll: A Real-World Example

2021 1

  1. Why Does Conor McGregor Get a Comeback?

2014 1

  1. REVIEW: Missing 'Missing Richard Simmons'

1997 1

  1. of my values

1996 1

  1. PGP and other keys

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  1. A Story of the Origins of Religion
  2. Our Skies Contain Sprites, Elves, Trolls, Pixies, Ghosts, and Gnomes
  3. SBSK is The Most Important Channel on YouTube
  4. On n'a pas la langue dans notre poche!
  5. You Must, You Must, You Must
  6. Blogging Saved My Life
  7. Announcing folk.zone: An attempt to build the IndieWeb commons myself.
  8. THE LANTERNFLY.
  9. A Ship in Harbour is Safe
  10. Introducing writer-cli: a bash tool I built from scratch to blog in the terminal!
  11. Groundhog Day, Groundhog Day, and Variations on a Theme
  12. Groundhog Day, Savescumming, and Our Endless Numbered Days
  13. SPICE: Our Antifragile Biology
  14. /r/SlopcoreCirclejerk and the Men who are pro-AI
  15. On Being a River
  16. What We Lose with Cultural Extinction: The Red Thread Cut
  17. Last Online 620 Weeks Ago: Why I'm Loyal to the IndieWeb
  18. The Hondius Pneumonia (Low Risk Assessment)
  19. Where is the Indigenous Cultural Revolution?
  20. PATTERN RECOGNITION
  21. Writers Who Burned All Their Words feat. Bix Frankonis
  22. Floating Up: An Interview with the creator of Bubbles.town, Benjamin Behnke
  23. Deeds, Not Words: The Myth of Polite Revolution
  24. Being a Citizen Journalist
  25. Follow-up: An Interview with Frances Widdowson
  26. Right-wing Conservatives Cannot Make Good Art
  27. A THOUSAND CRANES: Why I Write Every Day
  28. CLEAN AIR: Long COVID Is a Catastrophic Public Policy Failure
  29. Memes, Metal Gear Solid, and You
  30. GRAIN ELEVATOR COUNTRY
  31. 30: Finding My Footing
  32. Loss, and Loss, and Loss: A Eulogy
  33. Earning My Keep
  34. REVIEW: Falling Into Sinkhole (Jake Beka, 2026)
  35. THE MOON
  36. Behind Glass
  37. Incels Won the Culture War
  38. Being a 21st Century Schizoid Man
  39. STORYTELLING Part Two: The (Literal) Magic of Writing
  40. STORYTELLING Part One: The Neurology of Narrative
  41. REVIEW: To be Un Poeta (2025, dir. Simón Mesa Soto)
  42. Constellation of Living Stars
  43. Fermenting Boredom
  44. CHILDHOOD: Hypercapitalist Nostalgia & Unsupervised Internet Access
  45. Write Weird Shit
  46. Why is my local city and public library looking to pay $50/hr to an AI Artist Residency?
  47. Build Awesome's Kickstarter is Cancelled
  48. The Big Arch Distraction (while the World is Burning)
  49. A Room of One's Own in 2026 in 6 Parts: The Domain, the Material and the Immaterial
  50. 'The Friend of Mankind Is No Friend of Mine': What's the Misanthrope's Place in Community?
  51. 12,000 Generations: On Deep Time, Grief, and the Body
  52. My Malware Story Gets Stolen; Yet Another Argument for the IndieWeb
  53. What Can I Offer? The Shell.
  54. The Many Wonders of Being a Late Bloomer
  55. The 1% Rule: An Open Letter to Everyone Who Doesn't Post Anything Online
  56. The Curious Case of the Triton Malware Fork
  57. Unseasonal
  58. Our Shared Oblivion
  59. Announcing Three New Free JAMstack Blogging Themes
  60. Substack's Subpar Subculture
  61. No, Moltbook is not the Singularity or AGI. Not even close.
  62. To Continue with Hope
  63. The Final Coding Bootcamp: A Eulogy for Lighthouse Labs
  64. More Than One Way: On Ritual, Morality, and the Darkness Beyond Knowing
  65. Creating an Alphabetical Tag Page feat. Nunjucks Pitfalls
  66. How You Can Support Indie Creators—and You Need To
  67. The Pandemic Never Ended. We Only Pretend it Did
  68. Computing for the Apocalypse
  69. REVIEW: Light Joy Writing, On Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic
  70. What I Have Learned Being on the IndieWeb for a Month
  71. Greenland Belongs to the Inuit
  72. From 65 to 83: Attempts at Performance Optimization
  73. Extending the Post Graph Plugin: Adding Clickable Links and Tooltips
  74. REVIEW: How do we reckon? On Yiyun Li's 'Things in Nature Merely Grow'
  75. How Can We Use the Internet for Good?
  76. How a Taylor Swift Lyric Gave Me an Existential Crisis
  77. auld lang syne: The Commonplace (micro)Log
  78. Deploying An Eleventy Site to NeoCities with GitLab CI/CD
  79. Why I'm not a Full-stack Dev
  80. To Dance is to Live
  81. Building brennan.day Part One: Design, Rainbows, and Accessibility
  82. What Can We Give One Another? On Public Domain, Preservation, and Living Without Copyright
  83. Thoughts on Digital Third Spaces
  84. Do It Ugly: On Bad Art and Civic Duty
  85. Choosing Quiet: I'm No Longer Using AI Editors
  86. Are NSFW AI Companions Actually Just Exploited Workers in Developing Countries?
  87. The Only Real Sport
  88. No, Smiling Friends WON’T Become the Next Rick and Morty
  89. 10 Ways to Write Like the 90’s
  90. I Started Listening To Justin Vernon In Grade School. Now, He’s Retiring As I Turn 30.
  91. What does it mean to be a good editor?
  92. Move to a Better Internet in 2026.
  93. The Three Times the World Nearly Ended
  94. Tough, but Fair: How to Elevate Your Craft from Blogging to Literary Journalism
  95. Steal My Work
  96. THE ART OF THE MICROESSAY
  97. We’ve Known About Thomas King for Over Ten Years.
  98. The Misdirection
  99. A Love Letter to Public Transit
  100. Community Will Save Your Life
  101. My Best Advice for Medium Writers with No Followers
  102. THE INERTIA EFFECT: Stop Optimizing
  103. Your Civic Duty to Make Art
  104. Gen-Z love dumb phones, the analog, e-ink screens, slow living, community, and longform work.
  105. Lovebombing, Psychosis, and Murder.
  106. BoJack and the Temptation of Suicide
  107. In Defence of Rupi Kaur
  108. THE COMPASSION ECONOMY
  109. When We Get Blackheart
  110. The Piss Average Problem
  111. Witnessing Palestine & the United States
  112. Ceremony
  113. THE BANANA MYSTERY
  114. Be prolific. Accept every thought. Mythologize yourself. Show up.
  115. Disability in Adventure Time
  116. The Great Forgetting
  117. Wallet
  118. More of My Accounts →
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  120. License
  121. /AI
  122. collections
  123. IndieWeb Guide