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May 2026

michael-dean-k/

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.

May 2026

Summer Syllabus

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.

April 2026

Margin Muse

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.

January 2026

Essay Club HQ

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.