Stories built to
outlast the platform.

Thirty Years Online, and I Never Owned the Ground

From Windows 95 to the AT Protocol, and why this is the last time I rebuild this site (at least the backend).

The Win Was Never Bluesky. It Was the Protocol.

The better question is whether we can stop rebuilding the same landlord model with a different logo on the door. Right now, our social graphs are corporate hostage files. One model lets you leave a platform and take your world with you; the other forces you to download your history as a static zip file and start over from zero.

Testing a Plugin by Writing About Not Knowing What to Write About

There’s something beautifully recursive about installing a publishing plugin… then immediately not knowing what to publish with it.

Behind the Pages of Pejorative: With the Author

Every story starts with a spark. For Pejorative: Echoes of a Nation, that spark was a question I asked on my blog, just a few “what if” scenarios about Alberta leaving Canada. At the time, it felt like speculative fiction. But the more I followed the rhetoric, the clearer it became that the lines between reality and fiction were blurring. What started as a thought experiment grew into something much deeper, a layered story about propaganda, memory, and the quiet erasure of national identity. In ...

Wearing Too Many Hats (and Writing Anyway)

There’s a particular kind of tired that doesn’t come from lack of sleep. It comes from context switching. It’s the friction of writing a chapter in the early morning quiet, then pivoting immediately to emails, scheduling posts, and checking sales dashboards I pretend not to care about (but care about anyway). It’s the mental tax of pushing a book I’ve already finished while my mind is already drifting to the next one. That’s where I am right now.

The Gander Passport: Why a Sovereign Node Beats a Digital Bunker