Relaunch!—JOURNAL

A new website design and implementation for 2020 and beyond—with a new title to boot!

Writing Requires Reading—JOURNAL

…as my November-writing adventures make clear!

Travel is my Kryptonite—JOURNAL

It ruins all my normal habits and rhythms and tanks my productivity.

…but Running is Sunlight—JOURNAL

(Why yes, that is a riff on Superman.)

25,462 Words—JOURNAL

Reflections on a month of writing.

Some Thoughts on micro.blog—JOURNAL

I like the service. But I’m not using it.

Endings and Edges—JOURNAL

Reflections prompted by Michael Sacasas’ wrapping up a decade of blogging.

Writing Implements—JOURNAL

Sheer delight—by way of writing in a Pano Totebook with a Uniball Signo RT1 0.38mm.

Adieu to 2019—JOURNAL

A year of rest and recovery, for which I’m profoundly grateful.

A Decadal Kind of Change—JOURNAL

Rethinking this site—and my own vocations—as the 2010s give way to the 2020s.

Epistemic Status—JOURNAL

Making explicit just how confident I am (or am not).

Tell Me Your Priors!—LIBRARY

A gap I wish David H. Kelsey’s introduction in Eccentric Existence had filled.

Please Don’t Just Screenshot Books!—JOURNAL

A PSA to writers-on-the-web about how we share text.

How I Publish This Site—JOURNAL

Explaining how I run this site—everything.

Scripting Affiliate Links in Alfred—JOURNAL

Perhaps weirdly, I haven’t done much of this before!

On Ending “This Week I Learned”—JOURNAL

At least for now, I don’t have time for this particular bit of blogging. And that’s okay.

Polemic is Hard—LIBRARY

One can only take so much bludgeoning-of-bad-ideas before growing weary of a book.

Twitter and Me, Redux—JOURNAL

A 2020 update on my take on that particular social medium.

Can You Recommend a Book on This?—JOURNAL

Probably not, unfortunately. Maybe I can write something up, though?

Wrapping Up 2020 and Starting 2021—JOURNAL

Goodbye, good riddance, won’t look back fondly on this one.

Just Write—JOURNAL

Even if you only have five minutes: write anyway.

Miscellaneous Updates—JOURNAL

Or: it has been months since I wrote anything, so I’m scratching that itch.

2021 End-of-Year Thoughts —JOURNAL

Another year behind, another reflection on what happened (and what didn’t!) in this latest circuit of the sun.

Buy Me a Book—JOURNAL

Moving from Patreon to BuyMeACoffee for folks to support my writing if so inclined.

Don’t Sprint the First Mile of a Half Marathon—JOURNAL

On establishing a sustainable pace at the start of a new year.

Volume—JOURNAL

On my need to write, and writing here less lately. (Or: writing something because I needed to gain a sense of momentum about my writing goals, and writing about writing comes easily, which is why bloggers resort to it when they’re tired.)

Don’t Universalize from Your Own Experiences—JOURNAL

Snappy writing, careers in software development (and other fields), advice-giving, and over-generalizing.

A quarter-of-the-year check-in——JOURNAL

What Can I Do With 10 Minutes?—JOURNAL

What can I do when I do not have long stretches of time to give deep attention to a task?

Flow State—JOURNAL

Maybe it’s less important than we like to think?

Long and Short—JOURNAL

The value of different kinds of writing.

Obsidian—JOURNAL

A reply to an acquaintance’s question about what Obsidian is doing for me.

John Cook and Brief Notes—JOURNAL

Journaling—JOURNAL

But in a very specific way.

Journaling, One Day Along—JOURNAL

A progress report: It had the desired effect. I like it!

2022 in Review: Writing —JOURNAL

Getting published in print, and a year to at least match last year for my normal blogging and open source work!

2022 in Review: The Rest of life —JOURNAL

Less than I wanted of music, running, etc.; but some good things on the financial and spiritual fronts.

Generative Work and Productive Puttering—JOURNAL

They sometimes feel similar, but they aren’t the same. (And both can be good!)

Blog-Gardening in Public—JOURNAL

❡ Length: An Observation —JOURNAL

Blog posts, like essays (published online or in magazines) tend (I think!) to differ from books in just how long they let their paragraphs run.

dimension change/code review—JOURNAL

Writing Tools—JOURNAL

Obsidian, Bear, high-quality native apps vs. cross-platform Electron apps…

Extended Time Off Report—JOURNAL

What I got up to over the past month! Because I relax by learning and doing.

Just Keep Climbing—JOURNAL

Or: how to make progress.

Writing and Prestige-Building—A Reply to Will Larson—JOURNAL

On “infrequent, high-quality content” as a tactic.

Tools for Thought, Not Shortcuts for Thinking—LIBRARY

Now: Sabbatical—JOURNAL

Resting well and (by?) working hard.

2023 in Review: Sabbatical Report—JOURNAL

2023 in Review: Writing and Speaking—JOURNAL

Being a Fast, Cogent Writer Is Useful—JOURNAL

It is also something you can get better at!

music.chriskrycho.com—ELSEWHERE

A new one-stop shop for all things musical from me.

How I Currently Use Social Media—JOURNAL

Aspirations and actualities.

Microblogs Without Social Media—JOURNAL

Feeds. Feeds are great. More feeds.

Weeknote: June 17–21, 2024—JOURNAL

Weeknote: June 22–29, 2024—JOURNAL

Red Pen—JOURNAL

How (and why) I revise the “old-fashioned” way.

Weeknote: June 30–July 5, 2024—JOURNAL

Review: A Quiet Mind to Suffer With ↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE

Writing at The Gospel Coalition on John Andrew Bryant’s book on OCD and the Christian life.

Weeknote: July 6–13, 2024—JOURNAL

PSA: Do Not Use Blockquotes for Admonitions—JOURNAL

Markdown leads you into this trap, but you don’t have to fall into it.

Programming Language Learning: A Rant—JOURNAL

Or, what makes programming language learning materials so hard to do really well.

A Note on Social Media Topics—JOURNAL

A quick Friday-evening note on what I do and don’t tend to write about on Bluesky, LinkedIn, Mastodon, etc.—and why!

On My Current Writing Output—JOURNAL

Or, why mostly only “Read the Manual” posts lately.

Life Update, Advent 2024—JOURNAL

Present goings-on and general life status as we come into the start of a new liturgical year.

No AI on This Site—NOTES

A statement and a pledge.

Is Organic Social Media Dead?—NOTES

If you know Betteridge’s Law, you know.

Ghost (Instead of Substack)—NOTES

Own your turf! Including, if you have one, a newsletter!

Buttondown’s Alternatives Page—NOTES

Would that all software companies acted this way.

Byword—NOTES

Still a really great Markdown editor after all these years.

Noteblogging—NOTES

We needed a word for this thing that various folks are doing.

Why the Jujutsu posts are all about differences from Git—NOTES

After all, it can do all the normal Git workflows, too…

2024 in Review—JOURNAL

A weird year—not a bad one, sometimes a great one, always a strange one.

Against Hard-Wrapping Text Documents—NOTES

Let your text editor do the work for you instead. Please.

What Distinguishes Newsletters from Blogs?—NOTES

Genre, medium, content… delivery mechanism?

mdBook tip: Redirects and the SUMMARY.md file—NOTES

The “helpful” creation of files named in SUMMARY.md might trip you up.

The twitter:label and twitter:data meta tags—NOTES

I have never seen these documented, but they are useful!

Authoring This Site in Obsidian etc.?—NOTES

Why I don’t, and what I do instead (at least at present).

Indurate—NOTES

A lovely, too-little-used word.

The Rust Programming Language, 2024 Edition—ELSEWHERE

That’s my name in the authors list! Whoa!

Quoting Jane Scharl on Poetry Magazine↩︎—❈—NOTES

Art is not a mere tool for other things.

Claude as a Better Grammarly?—NOTES

Results are mixed. Perhaps unsurprisingly.

Your Real Assumed Audience—NOTES

There’s who you think it is, and who it actually is.

Platform Reality↩︎—❈—NOTES

Riffing on Robin Sloan on Substack and the open web.

Don’t Conflate Intelligence with Value↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE

In Christianity Today’s July/August 2025 issue on artificial intelligence.

Naming Policy: ‘Large Language Models’, Not ‘Artificial Intelligence’—NOTES

Because I am pretty well persuaded at this point that “AI” obscures far more than it illuminates.

Writing and Revision Time—NOTES

More than you think, probably, for most writing worth reading!

Write Good Commit Messages—NOTES

It doesn’t take long and you never know when it will pay massive dividends.