2025-06-24 03:05:00
It’s late on Monday 23rd and I’m typing this weekly recap that I was supposed to write on a Sunday but it’s been a hectic day—today wasn’t much better, autostrade per l’italia loves me—and I was too tired to write it last night so I’m doing it now.
Week three has been interesting. Didn’t go as planned but it’s been a fun learning experience. I did manage to meditate all 7 days but for a few of those days I only meditated once, which is fine. Didn’t listen to podcasts, didn’t watch videos, and made some progress with my third book of the month. I did push live a new version of the blogroll, but didn’t post much on the blog. Screen time was back up again on my phone and that’s because I spent the first 4 days of the week with a terribly annoying seasonal flu. I woke up on Monday with a sore throat and by Monday night I had a headache, then a minor fever and a runny nose. By Friday I was already back on track but one thing I noticed is that when I feel sick my mind becomes VERY distracted and I suspect that’s because I can’t focus on work or on reading a book or on doing basically anything useful with my time and so I found myself staring at that stupid phone way too much.
But I’m glad it happened because it’s a learning experience and I have a plan for the next time I find myself stuck in bed because I’m sick.
Overall, I’m still very happy I’m doing this experiment and I very much look forward to writing the next follow-up at the end of the month because there are some important—for me at least—takeaways.
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2025-06-20 19:00:00
This is the 95th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Dave Rupert and his blog, daverupert.com
Way back in 2023 Chris Coyier was a guest on this series and I'm happy to finally have the other half of the Shop Talk Show on and close the circle.
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I’m Dave Rupert, a web developer from Austin, TX. I went to college in a time before web design was even a discipline and majored in Japanese. After living in Japan for three years I came back to the states to pursue web development full-time. I started a company called Paravel with two of my best friends Trent Walton and Reagan Ray. We did that for fifteen years with pretty great success then took some funding and tried our hand at a startup for two years. Now I currently write web components at Microsoft and in my spare time I’m busy with family, writing, gaming, and building plastic mech models from the Gundam anime series.
This is the third major incarnation of my blog. My first biog I actually consider to be the paper zine I wrote in high school with my friend Michael Rice. It was very low-budget and small-time but got me addicted to the thrill of self-publishing.
When I graduated college I started the web version of that zine and made a blog chronicling my entrance into corporate life and my time living in Japan. It was a great outlet for me creatively as well as a way to stay connected to folks back home. I hosted a few other friends blogs as well as a forum and it made for a nice little co-op community of bloggers.
That project eventually folded and the current version of my site was started a couple years later after I got deeper into professional web development. My content shifted from day-in-the-life random observations to more a tech focused tone. I only posted a few times a year but a switch flipped in me when I met Jeffrey Zeldman and Eric Meyer at SXSW one year and it motivated me to pour more energy into blogging regularly.
Most of my ideas come from my work experience, tangents I’m chasing down, or seeing an intersection of two completely unrelated ideas. It’s pretty whimsical and I don’t try to pigeon hole myself into only talking about websites, although most of my posts are tech adjacent in some way since that’s a big part of my life. I care about the Web, so I write about the Web.
I have hundreds of draft posts that I organize in a blogging kanban which I originally created in Notion but now do in Obsidian. With too many drafts in a folder I had a hard time figuring out the state of my ideas, so the kanban adds structure to help get my posts across the finish line: published on my blog.
I like to say “it’s overkill, but it’s my overkill” because I’m not a linear thinker (ADHD), and I’m always working on five ideas at once. It really does help me get a grasp on my writing. I even created a “Deadpool” status so I can let half-baked ideas die. It’s not a particularly efficient process but it works for me.
I have a nice recliner I like to write in. I also have a cool backyard office that is a great space but feels more like work and I prefer the coziness of the chair. Digging in and writing often happens after the kids go to bed when the house is finally quiet and nothing is being asked of me. Then I can put hands on keyboard and get some thoughts out.
I don’t treat it as something precious, but I think your environment absolutely influences your creative output. Whether it’s noisiness, cleanliness, or being surrounded by your favorite tools; our spaces (as well as music or general mental wellbeing) enables creativity. You can eke out creativity anywhere, but the right setting removes a barrier for getting into that flow state.
My website is built with Jekyll on Netlify. Nothing beats a folder full of markdown files. I also have a folder full of assets that I sync to Netlify using Apple Shorctuts. I’ve tried blogging platforms with databases in the past but you’re always fighting against comment spam and hacks and constant updates. A static site generator really smoothes out the technical overhead to I can focus on the writing.
If I were to do it all again, I would maybe try a pen name. Having my name associated to my blog has done well for my career, but what if it wasn’t? What if the line between me and writing was a bit more blurry. Dave Rupert is just some guy, but Snake Renegade… he’s a hero.
I don’t actually have the energy to maintain that ruse for decades, but it might be nice … in these uncertain times … to have an online persona detached from the name you put on your résumé.
The domain name is $18.99 per year but beyond that It costs $0 to run my blog. I used to run ads on my site that made me about $100 per year, but I think they ad vendor restructured their payouts and I said goodbye. It was more about a self-imposed third party script constraint than the handfuls of cash I made. I’m not opposed to folks monetizing their blog but ideally it’s tasteful. I probably get more upset at people who disable ads on small blogs than those that run ads on small blogs.
In a perfect world the Web Monetization API would exist and we could passively drop pennies in people’s pockets as we travel from one site to the next. There was a whole crypto grift associated with Web Monetization though, so if they ever do it again I hope it can be more straightforward.
One of my favorite bloggers is Susan Jean Robertson. She’s a web developer but her blog is mostly posts about her knitting projects and reaction posts to interesting long reads she finds. It’s so far away from the stuff I write about that I’m kind of jealous of her. I think she’d make a great interview candidate.
Greg Storey is another recommendation I’d make, he’s a prolific blogger from the old days, but I feel he’s recently re-found his voice and is harnessing a deep punk rock aesthetic. Worth a read as well.
If you’re interested in stuff I do…. I blog at daverupert.com, I also post my shitty sci-fi on my site, I have a few apps like Mundango hosted on subdomains. And I co-host Shop Talk Show with Chris Coyier from CodePen (and this blog), it’s a weekly web development podcast.
Thank you so much for having me.
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2025-06-19 16:40:00
The other day while chatting with Kevin I was commenting on the fact that our experimental Junes are going in opposite directions. In his most recent Sunday update, he wrote that
But I think the experiment won’t have as big an impact as I expected.
While I wrote
I’m overjoyed with how this experiment is going and I’m currently thinking about which lasting changes I should make to keep some of these positive effects around for the long run.
I thought that was quite interesting and while discussing this, after he commented that maybe the reason why this is not having much of an impact on him is because it has his digital life under control, I jokingly teased him by saying that maybe the reason is that he’s a digital addict and he can’t actually give up most of this stuff.
I even proposed to him to do a month of complete pause from all the digital projects we have going but he refused (because you’re an addict Kevin!). I’m mostly having fun with these wacky experiments but, on a more serious note, it got me thinking about all the various digital chains we voluntarily put around our necks that often end up dragging us down, making us miserable.
Probably the funniest thing people write me every now and again is “I know you’re not on social media. I wish I could do the same”.
I wish I could do the same. Never stops making me smile. There’s nothing that forces you to be on social media. Absolutely nothing. Unless your job is to be a social media manager, you don’t have to be there. And yet so many people are suffering because they can see how these stupid platforms manage to make them miserable and yet they don’t do anything to change this situation. It is such a bizarre phenomenon to observe.
And I can already see many of you out there trying to rationalize why you still are on these platforms: some of you will claim that every now and again they still find something useful on there while others will claim that they need to be there because it’s useful for their career.
Look it’s not up to me to say what you should do, that goes without saying. It’s your life after all, not mine so you do you. If you want to spend the next 5 hours doom scrolling on Instagram you’re absolutely free to do so and the only person you’re hurting is likely yourself. But at least you should realize that it is a choice you’re making. Because you don’t have to wish you could do the same: you can do the same. Nothing stops you and nobody is forcing you to live this way.
As Kevin wrote:
You don’t have to do anything, really. You just have to deal with the fallout. And I’d argue that in a lot of cases, the fallout’s just a story you’re telling yourself. One that isn’t half as bad as you think.
If you wish you could do the same, stop wishing and just do it. Delete those stupid apps. Rediscover that you can stay in touch with the people you care about in other ways. Rediscover the joy of reading a good book, of eating a meal without having to take a picture to post it on your stupid Instagram profile nobody cares about, of walking in a beautiful place and enjoying it fully, without having to document every second of your own experience for the other TikTokers. Nobody will care about your content in a few years but you’ll likely regret not being more present in those moments.
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2025-06-16 16:30:00
A few years ago the government here in Italy decided to switch from old paper ID cards to the new plastic, credit card-style ones. I have no idea if this was EU-mandated—I didn’t bother checking—and I have zero problems with the change.
The card itself is not the part that interests me though. What interests me—and it’s part of the topic of this post—is the bureaucratic process to get the new card. In addition to the usual stuff—a photo, some data, a bunch of money—they now ask you if you want to be registered as an organ donor.
The fact that the government is asking that question intrigues me. Before I dive into this probably massive rant let me just say that next year, when it’s time for me to renew my ID, I’ll answer yes to that question. Take whatever you want from me when I’m gone, who gives a shit. If I can be helpful to someone even after I’m gone, that’s fucking awesome.
Ok so what I’m wondering is this: why is that even a choice I have? Hear me out: who owns my body after I’m dead? I assume this is both a legal and philosophical question and the answer probably changes based on where you live but the reason why I’m intrigued by it is because it’s one of those questions where I don’t have an immediate gut answer that feels right at an intuitive level.
When you’re alive you own your body… I guess. Are we even sure that you own your body? Sure maybe we can define you as a mind trapped inside a meat spaceship that is the body that you then own. But maybe what you are is a mix of both body and mind and so saying that you own the body isn’t quite right because you can’t own something you are. You are your body, you don’t own it. And who knows, maybe in the future we’ll be able to do a full brain transplant and at that point, this whole situation will change but as of right now—the 16th of June, 2025 at 9.54 am—that is not the case.
I guess your ownership of your body is implicit because it’s part of what you are. But then, unfortunately, you die. Sorry, happens to everyone, even the best, and you certainly are one of the best. And when you die, you no longer are. You no longer own a body. You no longer own anything as a matter of fact. Because you’re dead. Dead don’t own stuff. Because dead, are dead. I’d go as far as to say that the whole concept of ownership doesn’t apply to dead people because concepts don’t apply to them. Because they’re dead. You can’t argue concepts with someone who’s no longer here. They can’t give you their opinion, they can’t agree on anything. Because they’re dead.
Before I move on, I understand that things like inheritance and wills and shit like that are a thing and so yes, technically, the dead can take decisions about what will happen to stuff they own after they’re dead.
Let’s go back to bodies. So you’re dead—again, I’m sorry. Who owns you? A simple intuitive answer could be your heirs. Ok then let’s pretend you have four of them and they all want to do something different with their newly acquired property. What do we do then? Do we just chop you into four equal pieces? People already have a hard time deciding how to split a cake into equal parts and those are usually round so imagine what a mess would be to split a body into equal pieces. It would be a bloody mess!
So clearly can’t be them. So who’s left? It’s either nobody or the government. If it’s nobody then that means it’s a free-for-all to scavenge what’s salvageable from your now-dead body and even though that would make for a great movie plot I think that’s not a sustainable arrangement in a civil society.
Which leaves us with the government. You die, “the man” owns your body. That is for sure a simpler setup but if that’s indeed the case, then why should the government ask for permission to do something with my body once I’m gone? That’s the interesting—for me at least—conundrum I found myself ruminating on while walking the dog.
If some of you out there with legal expertise want to chime in and provide their informed opinion, I’m all ears because this is all so fascinating to me.
What’s not equally interesting is the moral implications of answering “no” to the organ donor question. People, as you know, come in all shapes, colours, and sizes. We all have our idiosyncrasies, we all have our quirks, that’s what makes life fun and worth living. And I don’t want to be the type of person who judges what others do in their lives. As long as it’s legal and it doesn’t hurt anyone, go nuts. Do whatever you want. I’m very libertarian in that sense.
BUT, and it pains me to say this, if you decide to not be helpful to someone else, to potentially save lives, and instead opt to take your dead body into the ground to let it rot and dissolve in a puddle of stinky glue, then you are a selfish jerk. I’m sorry.
And I’ll tell you more. I think this is probably the single most selfish action you can possibly take. There are many selfish things one can do when they’re alive, going from actions that are mildly annoying to straight-up batshit crazy and totally illegal. But in doing one of those things, no matter how despicable they are, you get something out of them. Maybe it’s just some perverse pleasure for being a dick, it doesn’t matter. It’s at least something.
But by not donating your organs after you’re dead? You’re getting nothing out of that. Literally nothing. Because you’re dead. There’s no twisted pleasure to be found there, nothing. It’s just pure selfishness.
Ok now, some of the more religious people out there might be all up and arms about this whole discussion. I get it. But I also don’t care. Believe in reincarnation, believe in whatever you want. As I said above, you do you, I don’t care. That doesn’t change the fact that it’s still selfish. Also, it’s the one decision you can make without facing real consequences. There’s going to be no consequences for you no matter what because you’re dead.
Anyway, long way for me to say that donating organs is cool, not doing it after you’re dead is selfish and ownership of corpses is an interesting topic and if you know more about it please do let me know.
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2025-06-15 17:10:00
It’s a very warm morning on Sunday the 15th and I just got up from my meditation cushion that I never failed to meet once since I started this experimental June. The return to meditation is going wonderfully and that pleases me greatly. I missed meditation, I know it’s good for my mental well-being and yet I managed to distance myself from the practice for no other reason than that I am my worst enemy—and also an idiot. This week I managed to meditate either two or three times a day every single day—except for today, but the day is still long—and the health app is reporting 27 minutes on average over the past 7 days. I’m pleased with that. I’m also happy that my shift in mindset is still present and I still feel the desire to sit quietly and observe my mind. I’m also starting to feel that some of the sessions are too short but I plan to go through the entire introductory course anyway, even though it’s something I have done already in the past. I thought it was a good idea to start again from scratch. By the way, I’m using the Waking Up App if you’re wondering which course I’m going through.
And speaking of apps, screen time on my phone this second week has gone back up a bit but that’s mostly a function of me spending way too much time on Telegram for a variety of reasons. I was down 39% on week one and I’m up 14% this week. But that’s ok. It’s been a weird week from a mental health standpoint and phone usage reflected that. That said though, still no podcasts and videos. I did read two articles but both were sent to me as part of conversations and that’s all I consumed for personal reasons in terms of digital content. I did have to read a bunch of stuff for work but that is, well, work.
And speaking of reading, I did finish two books this month and I hit my—albeit very conservative—goal of reading 12 books this year. That is something else I’m quite happy about.
As for output, writing on the blog has slowed down but that’s just a function of me working on a lot of other stuff and there are only so many hours in the day I can spend in front of a screen.
Overall, I’m overjoyed with how this experiment is going and I’m currently thinking about which lasting changes I should make to keep some of these positive effects around for the long run.
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2025-06-13 19:00:00
This is the 94th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have James A. Reeves and his blog, jamesreeves.co
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Left-handed. Six feet tall. Becoming aggressively middle-aged and doing my best not to lapse into nostalgia even though being alive in the twenty-first century feels like an increasingly undignified experience.
Work-wise, I’m lucky. I’ve managed to stitch together a living that lets me do things I care about: designing things for constructive clients, teaching a class about the history of visual culture, and working with my partner Candy Chang on art installations about the future of ritual. I’m trying to do as much of this as I can before the robots and recessions get here.
It started as Kinosport in 2000, back when I was heavy into film and Constructivism. Then came a ten-year run as Big American Night during the Bush and Obama years when I crisscrossed the country listening to late-night AM radio, where America’s paranoid style was curdling into extreme tribalism. But looking in the rearview mirror now, it all seems rather quaint.
After some time overseas, I decided to nix the American focus, so I renamed it Atlas Minor, after one of the last maps to feature sea monsters. I thought this was a clever name until, several years later, someone took it for their design company. Rather than argue about it, I decided the name was a little pretentious anyway.
I’ve spent so much time chopping myself into pieces over the years: a blog for writing, a separate website for design work, another for music, and yet another for artwork. But last year, I woke up one morning with a rare revelation: I should just be James. So here we are.
I’m perpetually redesigning my website, hoping to achieve a Platonic blend of legibility and calm while also evoking the inside of my head, which is very much neither of those things. Fiddling with my website feels like rearranging the furniture: a cleansing, sometimes a humbling, when I’m forced to accept how I actually live.
One night I asked myself: what do I like to do when nobody’s paying attention? Well, I tend to make heavily reverberated mixtapes of slow-motion songs while ruminating about spiritual matters. So last year, I turned this tendency into a ritual: Midnight Radio—a short mix and an essay that I send out ‘round midnight on the first and fifteenth of every month.
Ugly and splintered. For years I romanticized the act of writing to a destabilizing degree. I was convinced I should be producing lovely personal essays about themes, maybe even some punchy think-pieces about current events. But in reality, I had notebooks filled with tangled sentences about mythology, techno, death, petty grievances, highways, favorite songs, and neon lights.
I often think about Douglas Coupland’s confession that “around 2010 my own brain started feeling truly different. I realised that I was never going to go back to my old, pre-internet brain: I’d been completely rewired.” This idea horrifies me on a spiritual level because sometimes it feels like an ultimatum: embrace a pixellated future without complaint or grieve for the textures of the past.
The only solution might be a cognitive leap, like how the Modernists plunged into the future a century ago, determined to fuse with the machine. Embrace speed. Groove on distraction and fragments. Let my thoughts get garbled and strange.
But to be concrete about process: I always start with pen and paper. I think better when the writing doesn’t resemble the final product. For a recent piece, I wrote a few sentences about a terrible visit to the dentist, which for some reason left me thinking about a fire ceremony I had the opportunity to see in Japan—how those taiko drums rattled my ribcage. I sensed a connection between these events, but I had to let it cook for a week before I saw the connective tissue: acceptance as liberation.
For this interview, I jotted “rearview mirrors” and “rearranging furniture” into my notebook and put it away for two weeks before typing it out in IA Writer, which is the only writing software I use these days.
I used to believe my physical situation was very important. The perfect desk or café. A mystical belief that the right notebook would solve all my problems. I wasted years in absurd feedback loops in which, facing the blank page in the morning, I would decide I was a night owl who did his best writing at midnight, and when midnight rolled around, I would discover I was an early bird after all. And so on.
Maybe those calisthenics were necessary for me to finally—and truly—understand it’s very simple: Write or don’t write. So now I write whatever whenever. But I make sure to write every day or else I’ll need to go through a day or two of sighing and self-loathing before I get the muscles and momentum again.
After twenty years on WordPress and a few on Substack, I switched to Ghost last year because it’s lighter and easier, and I wanted to start my Midnight Radio newsletter on a platform that feels secure and sane and not tinted by some tech guru’s tantrums. After so many years of thrashing around in the muck of bloated plugins and baroque template structures, working with a light combo of handlebars and static HTML is a pleasure.
I would have started Midnight Radio sooner. But the teacher appears when the student is ready, etc. Putting together some text and sound before midnight on the 1st and 15th of every month has become a reassuring ritual that has helped me etch deeper memories and find unexpected connections between my favorite things. And it’s led to some delightful conversations with people I may not have otherwise met.
The most important skill for surviving the 21st century is managing one’s attention, so the idea that someone is spending their time online with my writing feels like a gift, and I’m not about to charge money to receive that.
To my mind, “monetize your content” is one of the most bleak phrases in the English language. I wouldn’t want to meet the psychopath who would pay to receive more email. I prefer when people sell concrete things. This summer I’d like to make a little book that compiles the first year of Midnight Radio, and I might offer a few handsome prints of melancholy gas stations.
Anyway, between hosting and domain names, my current setup probably shakes out to $25 per month, but the spiritual cost is priceless.
Candy Chang because I want her to blog more often. David Leo Rice because this essay captures our current gestalt like nothing else, and his Wake Island dispatches with Paul K have become required reading. And although Marty Essig’s website is often inscrutable, I know he’d be fascinating to interview, especially if you’re interested in talking about demons.
Fall of Civilizations, which might seem a bit on the nose nowadays, but I’ve learned so much: the wild technolgies of the Khmer Empire, how the Sumerians invented time, and the eerie Sea People who wiped out the Bronze Age. I fall asleep to an episode every night at 75% speed. It’s absolutely worth $3 a month to support Paul Cooper’s brilliant work—start with Carthage, but be warned: it’s a heartbreak.
And lately my late-night writing has been heavily soundtracked by Midwife’s heaven metal and hour-long reverb sessions from the Deepchord camp.
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