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Brennan Kenneth Brown is a Queer Métis writer and web developer exploring Indigenous identity, digital culture, and creativity. Personal essays on technology, craft, and human experience from Calgary, Alberta (Treaty 7).
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Tending the Garden I Have: A Current State of Affairs
https://brennan.day/tending-the-garden-i-have-a-current-state-of-affairs/
Published: September 7, 2026 02:00
Taking stock of my digital garden before the first frost: an honest audit of everything I'm tending online, from Brennan.day and fanfiction.lol to my 565-day writing streak, plus the projects I've neglected, the intentional prunes I'm happy with, and the…
Love is for the ones who love the work.
https://brennan.day/love-is-for-the-ones-who-love-the-work/
Published: September 5, 2026 02:00
Taking the final line of Joseph Fasano's poem 'For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper' as a starting point, I argue that loving the verb of creation matters more than daydreaming the noun. There's a wide chasm between writing discipline and the…
I Want to be Unremarkable
https://brennan.day/i-want-to-be-unremarkable/
Published: September 3, 2026 02:00
A meditation on the contradiction of writing publicly while wanting to remain unremarkable, drawing on Daoist uselessness, Epicurean lathe biōsas, state legibility, and Deleuzian imperceptibility—and why the only peaceful path is to keep writing and…
Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH
https://brennan.day/normalized-fascism-in-open-source-12-million-given-to-dhh/
Published: September 2, 2026 02:00
Open source has become a safe harbor for far-right politics, from David Heinemeier Hansson's white-nationalist rhetoric and the Omarchy Foundation's $12 million in patron funding to so-called apolitical projects that treat marginalized contributors as…
100 Questions for Webmasters
https://brennan.day/100-questions-for-webmasters/
Published: September 1, 2026 02:00
A hundred-question chain meme making the rounds about how and why we make websites. I answer my way through questions on workflow, editors, CSS confidence, webrings, Neocities and Nekoweb, domain names, accessibility, genAI ethics, Gruvbox, and everything…
SAD MACHINE
https://brennan.day/sad-machine/
Published: August 31, 2026 02:00
Debian's recent vote to permit genAI contributions, alongside the questions raised by the IndieWeb is Punk manifesto, leads me to reflect on the harm-reduction case, the deskilling of creators, the NFT-like grift of genAI output, and the Potemkin village…
A Few Small Things
https://brennan.day/a-few-small-things/
Published: August 30, 2026 02:00
Reflecting on the mental fatigue of posting every day during Blaugust, I share a few small things that cheered me up: a new keyword filter on Bubbles.town, Jan Miksovsky's Origami Projector, and the ongoing, hand-made goodness of the independent web.