Writing Portfolio
Creative writing
Lyric essays and cultural criticism. Full archive at brennan.day/archive.
WEBMASTER@ a manifesto
I'm reclaiming the title of "webmaster" as the multidisciplinary creator who designs, develops, …
GRAIN ELEVATOR COUNTRY
A fifteen-hour road trip across Saskatchewan with my brother, watching the prairie unfold through …
That's Home. That's us.
We have the first human photograph of Earth from space in 54 years, and I can't help but meditate on …
Our Skies Contain Sprites and Elves
Yes, really. Exploring the magical world of transient luminous events in the upper atmosphere: …
THE CLOWN BURNOUT
Clown white doesn't come off in one pass. A personal story about how I can never take myself …
Writers Who Wrote The Most in History
I've been writing publicly every day for seven months, and I wanted to know what that looked like …
Technical writing
Tutorials and IndieWeb write-ups for developers who want to build their own independent sites.
Why Make Your Website Accessible?
Web accessibility isn't compliance theatre or checking off a list. It's about designing for …
Oldnets and Altnets: Gemini and Gopher
Reacting to the Omarchy and DigitalOcean news, I set out a curated low-spec, text-first alternative …
Becoming a Rogue Scholar
I've been weighing grad school against continuing my own open-access publication, so I wrote a guide …
How Webmentions Work on brennan.day
A tutorial and walkthrough of how I implemented webmentions on my site, from setup to display, …
Homelabbing For Beginners
A beginner-friendly guide to building your own homelab on inexpensive hardware. Covers finding old …
Making a Digital Garden in 11ty
I decided to build brennan.click, a wiki-linked digital commonplace book in Eleventy, with …
