Where I Write
My primary homes on the web, in order of how often new work lands there:
- brennan.day: my independent publication
- bkpoetry.com: my poetry, hosted on Tumblr
- brennanbrown.dreamwidth.org: my diary on Dreamwidth
- brennan.smol.pub: my gemlog on smol.pub (notes on Gemini, tutorials, small-web experiments)
- brennan.click: my digital garden of notes in progress
Mirrors and Backups
Additional redundant copies of my writing:
- brennan.casa: NearlyFreeSpeech mirror (under construction)
- brennanday.neocities.org: Neocities backup
- plaintext.brennan.day: plain-text mirror of the whole site
- brennan.day/twtxt.txt: my twtxt feed
- web.archive.org/details/brennan.day: Wayback Machine archive
Low-Bandwidth Mirrors
Plain HTTP versions of my writing for terminal browsing, legacy hardware, or connectivity issues:
- brennan.w10.site and brennan.oldcities.org
- 135.181.118.12/~brennan/ (IPv4, works without DNS)
- [2a01:4f9:4b:1e30::3]/~brennan/ (IPv6)
- Wayback sitemap of w10.site
Recommended Articles
- A Love Letter to the Super Dimension Fortress: the history of SDF from a 300-baud Apple IIe BBS to today's NetBSD network, plus a hands-on Perl CGI guestbook and making a site Dillo-compatible
- Creating a Blog in Gemini://: why blog on a protocol with no JavaScript, no CSS, and no AI slop; where to host a capsule; Gemini BBS, Station, and Astrobotany
- Oldnets and Altnets: a guide to building a low-spec, text-first daily internet out of Gemini, Gopher, Spartan, Lynx-friendly sites, and peer-to-peer networks
- WEBMASTER@: a manifesto for everyone: reclaiming the title of webmaster for anyone who designs, develops, writes, and advocates for their own corner of the web
- Knitting the Web: We Need Interlinkers!: on garden, stream, and campfire metaphors for the web; linkdumps versus synthesis; and why every link out strengthens the blogosphere
- Blogging with Magic Unicode: CSS variables and Unicode symbols for visual personality on a minimal, accessible, fast-loading personal site
- Homelab for the Beginner: self-hosting your own server on $50 hardware: old computers, Linux, SSH, Docker, and your own Fediverse instance
- Gemini, Gophers, and Fingers. Oh My!: Finger from 1971, Gopher from 1991, and Gemini from 2019: terminal-based alternatives to the modern web