Setting up a personal website as the new place for where my writing lives. I'll still publish to Substack, but the format there is TBD. Currently, writing and building this is too fun to ignore, so I'm going to see where it leads. I wrote a little guide on how I built this. In additional to it being a full archive of my logs, essays, definitions, and notes, I'm excited for a few features, especially the fact that people can comment without accounts.
Building a list of 12-14 classic essays for Essay Club to read each week. Unlike a book club, we can read the full work together on the call, in 10-30 minutes. After that we'll do breakouts, discussion, and some annotated visuals using the Essay Architecture patterns. Starts Memorial Day.
I've been building out the scaffolding for a v2 of the Essay Architecture software. The core change is that it's evolving from a reporting tool to an editor, where AI agents leave comments in the margins. I'm starting a starting a devBlog to share the musings and mishaps of building this. First one is here.
Launched an anthology called The Best Internet Essays 2025, which features the winner and finalists from the $10,000 essay prize I hosted last year. We sold 350 copies through Metalabel, where 100% of the profits went to the writers, the judges, and the 2026 prize pool. I wrote about essay anthologies, the emergent theme, and interviewed the winner, Tommy Dixon.
Vibe-coded a new home base for our 60 members in Essay Club. After using community tools like this for year, it was fun to build one specific for our needs, which includes monthly goal setting, feedback exchange, publishing tracking, etc.