topic: writing
Everything I’ve written on the subject, from the beginning of this version of the site.
-
2019
-
Nov
-
17
-
18
-
Writing Requires Reading—JOURNAL
…as my November-writing adventures make clear!
-
-
26
-
Travel is my Kryptonite—JOURNAL
It ruins all my normal habits and rhythms and tanks my productivity.
-
-
27
-
…but Running is Sunlight—JOURNAL
(Why yes, that is a riff on Superman.)
-
-
30
-
25,462 Words—JOURNAL
Reflections on a month of writing.
-
-
-
Dec
-
01
-
Some Thoughts on micro.blog—JOURNAL
I like the service. But I’m not using it.
-
-
13
-
Endings and Edges—JOURNAL
Reflections prompted by Michael Sacasas’ wrapping up a decade of blogging.
-
-
19
-
Writing Implements—JOURNAL
Sheer delight—by way of writing in a Pano Totebook with a Uniball Signo RT1 0.38mm.
-
-
31
-
Adieu to 2019—JOURNAL
A year of rest and recovery, for which I’m profoundly grateful.
-
-
-
-
2020
-
Jan
-
01
-
A Decadal Kind of Change—JOURNAL
Rethinking this site—and my own vocations—as the 2010s give way to the 2020s.
-
-
10
-
Epistemic Status—JOURNAL
Making explicit just how confident I am (or am not).
-
-
12
-
Tell Me Your Priors!—LIBRARY
A gap I wish David H. Kelsey’s introduction in Eccentric Existence had filled.
-
-
18
-
Please Don’t Just Screenshot Books!—JOURNAL
A PSA to writers-on-the-web about how we share text.
-
-
-
Feb
-
09
-
How I Publish This Site—JOURNAL
Explaining how I run this site—everything.
-
-
15
-
Scripting Affiliate Links in Alfred—JOURNAL
Perhaps weirdly, I haven’t done much of this before!
-
-
-
Jul
-
24
-
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.
-
-
-
Aug
-
13
-
Polemic is Hard—LIBRARY
One can only take so much bludgeoning-of-bad-ideas before growing weary of a book.
-
-
16
-
Twitter and Me, Redux—JOURNAL
A 2020 update on my take on that particular social medium.
-
-
29
-
Can You Recommend a Book on This?—JOURNAL
Probably not, unfortunately. Maybe I can write something up, though?
-
-
-
Dec
-
31
-
Wrapping Up 2020 and Starting 2021—JOURNAL
Goodbye, good riddance, won’t look back fondly on this one.
-
-
-
-
2021
-
Jan
-
04
-
Just Write—JOURNAL
Even if you only have five minutes: write anyway.
-
-
-
Jun
-
01
-
Miscellaneous Updates—JOURNAL
Or: it has been months since I wrote anything, so I’m scratching that itch.
-
-
-
Dec
-
24
-
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.
-
-
-
-
2022
-
Jan
-
01
-
Buy Me a Book—JOURNAL
Moving from Patreon to BuyMeACoffee for folks to support my writing if so inclined.
-
-
12
-
Don’t Sprint the First Mile of a Half Marathon—JOURNAL
On establishing a sustainable pace at the start of a new year.
-
-
-
Mar
-
02
-
20
-
Don’t Universalize from Your Own Experiences—JOURNAL
Snappy writing, careers in software development (and other fields), advice-giving, and over-generalizing.
-
-
27
-
-
Aug
-
27
-
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?
-
-
28
-
Flow State—JOURNAL
Maybe it’s less important than we like to think?
-
-
-
Sep
-
24
-
Long and Short—JOURNAL
The value of different kinds of writing.
-
-
-
Oct
-
Dec
-
05
-
John Cook and Brief Notes—JOURNAL
-
Journaling—JOURNAL
But in a very specific way.
-
-
06
-
Journaling, One Day Along—JOURNAL
A progress report: It had the desired effect. I like it!
-
-
29
-
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!
-
-
-
-
2023
-
Jan
-
01
-
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.
-
-
04
-
Generative Work and Productive Puttering—JOURNAL
They sometimes feel similar, but they aren’t the same. (And both can be good!)
-
-
13
-
-
Mar
-
18
-
❡ 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.
-
-
-
May
-
Jun
-
15
-
Writing Tools—JOURNAL
Obsidian, Bear, high-quality native apps vs. cross-platform Electron apps…
-
-
-
Jul
-
30
-
Extended Time Off Report—JOURNAL
What I got up to over the past month! Because I relax by learning and doing.
-
-
-
Aug
-
08
-
Just Keep Climbing—JOURNAL
Or: how to make progress.
-
-
13
-
Writing and Prestige-Building—A Reply to Will Larson—JOURNAL
On “infrequent, high-quality content” as a tactic.
-
-
14
-
-
Nov
-
12
-
Now: Sabbatical—JOURNAL
Resting well and (by?) working hard.
-
-
-
Dec
-
-
2024
-
Feb
-
09
-
Being a Fast, Cogent Writer Is Useful—JOURNAL
It is also something you can get better at!
-
-
-
Mar
-
30
-
music.chriskrycho.com—ELSEWHERE
A new one-stop shop for all things musical from me.
-
-
-
May
-
15
-
How I Currently Use Social Media—JOURNAL
Aspirations and actualities.
-
-
18
-
Microblogs Without Social Media—JOURNAL
Feeds. Feeds are great. More feeds.
-
-
-
Jun
-
Jul
-
02
-
05
-
10
-
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.
-
-
13
-
30
-
PSA: Do Not Use Blockquotes for Admonitions—JOURNAL
Markdown leads you into this trap, but you don’t have to fall into it.
-
-
-
Oct
-
10
-
Programming Language Learning: A Rant—JOURNAL
Or, what makes programming language learning materials so hard to do really well.
-
-
-
Nov
-
15
-
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!
-
-
16
-
On My Current Writing Output—JOURNAL
Or, why mostly only “Read the Manual” posts lately.
-
-
-
Dec
-
01
-
Life Update, Advent 2024—JOURNAL
Present goings-on and general life status as we come into the start of a new liturgical year.
-
-
03
-
No AI on This Site—NOTES
A statement and a pledge.
-
-
09
-
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!
-
-
14
-
Buttondown’s Alternatives Page—NOTES
Would that all software companies acted this way.
-
-
19
-
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.
-
-
25
-
Why the Jujutsu posts are all about differences from Git—NOTES
After all, it can do all the normal Git workflows, too…
-
-
31
-
2024 in Review—JOURNAL
A weird year—not a bad one, sometimes a great one, always a strange one.
-
-
-
-
2025
-
Jan
-
13
-
Against Hard-Wrapping Text Documents—NOTES
Let your text editor do the work for you instead. Please.
-
-
16
-
What Distinguishes Newsletters from Blogs?—NOTES
Genre, medium, content… delivery mechanism?
-
-
22
-
mdBook tip: Redirects and the
SUMMARY.md
file—NOTESThe “helpful” creation of files named in
SUMMARY.md
might trip you up.
-
-
-
Feb
-
03
-
The
twitter:label
andtwitter:data
meta tags—NOTESI have never seen these documented, but they are useful!
-
-
09
-
Authoring This Site in Obsidian etc.?—NOTES
Why I don’t, and what I do instead (at least at present).
-
-
14
-
21
-
The Rust Programming Language, 2024 Edition—ELSEWHERE
That’s my name in the authors list! Whoa!
-
-
-
Mar
-
11
-
Quoting Jane Scharl on Poetry Magazine↩︎—❈—NOTES
Art is not a mere tool for other things.
-
-
-
Apr
-
16
-
Claude as a Better Grammarly?—NOTES
Results are mixed. Perhaps unsurprisingly.
-
-
17
-
Your Real Assumed Audience—NOTES
There’s who you think it is, and who it actually is.
-
-
-
Jun
-
23
-
Platform Reality↩︎—❈—NOTES
Riffing on Robin Sloan on Substack and the open web.
-
-
-
Jul
-
03
-
Don’t Conflate Intelligence with Value↩︎—❈—ELSEWHERE
In Christianity Today’s July/August 2025 issue on artificial intelligence.
-
-
-
That’s it for this topic… but there are many, many more!