The Darth Mall a personal website

2022

Bring Back Blogging

As people are abandoning Twitter, maybe it’s time to go back to writing blogs. Sign up at bringback.blog and write three posts in January. They don’t have to be long. Look at how short this post is…

Taipei Zoo

Photos from a visit to the Taipei Zoo

But Does Social Media Scale?

What if social media platforms inevitably breakdown into unpleasantness because of their size? Can this many people really interact with each other on a daily basis without it becoming Twitter all over again?

Content Warnings on Mastodon

An explanation of how I use content warnings, how I ask for content warnings, and how some of the recent conflicts surrounding content warnings have shaped my thinking.

Astro on the Brain

A little blog-therapy. Talking through the aspects of Astro that are appealing to me and drawing me toward wasting time rewriting my website with Astro.

When it Rains

Fighting the climate crisis has to be about more than driving electric vehicles, it has to be about designing a world where cars are far less important to transportation.

The Sandman

Just me gushing about how much I loved Netflix’s adaptation of The Sandman comics by Neil Gaiman. What an absolute treat.

The Brilliance of Terry Pratchett

I think it’s hard to overstate the brilliance of Sir Terry Pratchett, although it may have been easy to miss because you were so busy laughing.

Logging in Eleventy

How to use the debug package to output custom log messages alongside of Eleventy’s logs in your Eleventy build.