Brennan Kenneth Brown

Because $18 million dollars isn't enough for some people, I have more people and organisations of note to list as paying Omarchy patrons (there are over hundreds in total):

• Axel Fontaine is the creator of Flyway, the widely used database migration tool he sold to Redgate in 2019. He's also submitted code to the Omarchy repo, both a funder and a hands-on contributor.

• Marc Köhlbrugge is the founder of WIP and BetaList, fixtures of the indie-hacker/bootstrapper scene that Omarchy's ricing bullshit aesthetic is clearly courting.

• ServiceStack is an established .NET web-services framework vendor, one of the patrons backing the project as a company rather than an individual.

• Bertrand Janin is a longtime open-source developer (ex-Ramp, ex-Truveris) running his own small shop, Atelier Janin.

• Pagecord, the blogging platform created by Olly.

• Vincent Ritter, founder of Tinylytics and Scribbles, known for complaining about being offended by pronouns, being disappointed by more inclusive Apple emoji, disparaging "foreigners" who drive for Uber and play "foul rap music," and praising Elon Musk the day after he performed two Nazi salutes on camera. Manton Reece, of micro.blog, publicly defends him.

• 9538-7874 Quebec inc. is one of at least a couple of numbered, unnamed Canadian corporations on the list. Bizarre shell companies with no public identity attached to them at all. Unsure about these.

https://omarchy.org/patrons/

Last Online 640 Weeks Ago: Why I'm Loyal to the IndieWeb | 🔗 https://brennan.day/last-online-640-weeks-ago-why-i-m-loyal-to-the-indieweb/

#PersonalEssay #Indieweb #Internet #Community

❌ Getting a typo wrong on a blog post title is the worst, because then the entire URL changes and I have to make a permanent redirect in the netlify.toml every time like a log of shame.

I Made My Eleventy Build 5× Faster with Five Changes | 🔗 https://brennan.day/i-made-my-eleventy-build-5-faster-with-five-changes/

#Eleventy #Javascript #Technical #Tutorial #IndieWeb #PersonalSite

I've been so lucky to be spending time this week with my family.

I don't know who would need this, but I made a simple static site for myself to test out different coding syntax palettes using Shiki!

17 Dark themes. 11 Light themes. 15 Fonts. 27 Language examples.

https://syntax.brennan.day/

my little radio show is online

https://fm.brennan.day

Right now, it is just pulling public domain 78rpm records, CC music, old-time radio dramas, and spoken word from the Internet Archive with a cron job until I begin the live schedule.

Good, Standard Work: Creating the Commons | 🔗 https://brennan.day/good-standard-work-creating-the-commons/

#PersonalEssay #Commons #IndieWeb #OpenSource #Indigenous

The Build Awesome Kickstarter is back up, already hit its goal in less than a day.

I backed it, because I do want to see Leatherman and OSS projects as a whole succeed monetarily and be sustainable. I hope there is an audience for Build Awesome Pro despite my doubts.

That said, seeing one of the main features of Build Awesome be that "Cursor can refactor it, Claude can rewrite it, and your own scripts can manipulate it (safely)." and that "Build Awesome was designed for a world where your agentic assistant is a full contributor" is certainly frustrating and disappointing.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fontawesome/build-awesome-pro

#11ty #buildawesome #eleventy

Uh... 2 of the 3 winners of the porkbun creativity contest are just ai-generated slop??

https://porkbun.com/event/porkbun-creative-competition

good important read
https://blog.avas.space/misogyny/

Announcing My New Radio Show (a Love Letter to Public Access Television) | 🔗 https://brennan.day/announcing-my-new-radio-show-a-love-letter-to-public-access-television/

#PersonalEssay #Community #Radio #Technology #IndieWeb #CreativeProcess #Technical

RE: @goodenough@mastodon.world

Even more reason to use a very cool blogging platform!!

📻 Spinning up a server with AzuraCast, possibly maybe starting an indie radioshow in the future...

🛫 Arrived yesterday in Winnipeg! On a bit of a vacation.

🧚‍♀️ Today is a wonderful day to be a fairy and add magic into someone's life.

How and Why I Believe in God: The Ballad of Tragic Theism | 🔗 https://brennan.day/how-and-why-i-believe-in-god-the-ballad-of-tragic-theism/

#PersonalEssay #Theology #Christianity #Buddhism #Spirituality #Philosophy #Métis

🕸️ I get a lot more comments in Medium's silo than I do on my personal indie site, but the comments from the indieweb are always so intentional and human. So many comments on Medium are just... uncanny? Like it feels like genAI but why would you use that for a 50-word comment ?!

🌇 Listening to The Weakerthans "One Great City!" as I leave and greatly miss everything.

A THOUSAND CRANES: Why I Write Every Day | 🔗 https://brennan.day/a-thousand-cranes-why-i-write-every-day/

#PersonalEssay #Writing #Blogging #Culture #History

🍫 I usually get mountain trail mix, which is just gorp + fake M&Ms, but they were out so I got "indulgent" trail mix today instead and, y'all... there is too much chocolate. Like, 80:20 ratio

What We Lose with Cultural Extinction: The Red Thread Cut | 🔗 https://brennan.day/what-we-lose-with-cultural-extinction-the-red-thread-cut/

#PersonalEssay #History #Politics #Culture #Language #Indigenous #Colonialism #Identity

Where is the Indigenous Cultural Revolution? | 🔗 https://brennan.day/where-is-the-indigenous-cultural-revolution/

#PersonalEssay #Politics #Indigenous #SocialJustice

CLEAN AIR: Long COVID Is a Catastrophic Public Policy Failure | 🔗 https://brennan.day/clean-air-long-covid-is-a-catastrophic-public-policy-failure/

#PublicHealth #COVID-19 #LongCOVID #Disability #Policy #SocialCommentary

Memes, Metal Gear Solid, and You | 🔗 https://brennan.day/memes-metal-gear-solid-and-you/

#PersonalEssay #InternetCulture #Memes #Writing #VideoGames

One of the weirder scams I've come across, positively review-bombing my book...?

RE: @marcgovan@mastodon.social

Thank you for the kind words :) I really hope you do consider writing in Dutch more! I've been starting to write some of my articles and essays in French.

PATTERN RECOGNITION | 🔗 https://brennan.day/pattern-recognition/

#PersonalEssay #Science #Politics #ConspiracyTheories

The Hondius Pneumonia (Low Risk Assessment) | 🔗 https://brennan.day/the-hondius-pneumonia-low-risk-assessment/

#PersonalEssay #Science #Politics #Health #Pandemic

Right-wing Conservatives Cannot Make Good Art | 🔗 https://brennan.day/right-wing-conservatives-cannot-make-good-art/

#CulturalCriticism #Politics #Art #MediaAnalysis #SocialCommentary

I'm watching all of MasterChef USA in order, and the first few episodes of S4 has RANCID vibes compared to S3. Like what the hell.