Welcome, wanderer.

This is just an online space for nerding out and running stuff. Not much to see here for now — but you found it, and that counts for something.

A small place on a big web

I believe the internet works best when it's made of real people with real pages — not feeds optimized for engagement, but spaces shaped by curiosity and care. This is one of those pages.

Own your content. Publish on your own domain. Link generously. Build things that last longer than a news cycle. The web is not a product — it's a commons. Tend to your little patch of it.

What I'm pointing at

Good ideas leave traces. Here are some worth following.

Book · Media Theory

POSTMAN, Neal: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. London: Penguin Putnam Inc., 2011. 208 p. ISBN 9780143036531.

Written in 1985 about television, reads today like a dispatch from the future. Postman's argument that the medium shapes the message — and therefore the mind — has only gotten sharper.

Book · Fiction

SLOAN, Robin: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012. 288 p. ISBN 9780374214913.

A love letter to books, code, and the people who obsess over both. Sloan makes the tension between old knowledge and new technology feel genuinely alive.

Book · Design

WILLIAMS, Robin: The Non-Designer's Design Book. 4th ed. San Francisco: Peachpit Press, 2014. 240 p. ISBN 9780133966152.

Four principles — contrast, repetition, alignment, proximity — that quietly explain why some things look right and others don't. Deceptively simple, permanently useful.

Book · Fiction

NÁDAS, Péter: Biblia. Budapest: Helikon Kiadó, 2023. 96 p. ISBN 9789636200374.

Early Nádas — raw and precise. Children navigating fear, cruelty, and the quiet violence of power before they have words for any of it.

Essay · Politics & Culture

KUNDERA, Milan: Un Occident kidnappé, ou la tragédie de l'Europe centrale. Le Débat, 1983.

Kundera argues that Central Europe — culturally Western, geopolitically swallowed by the East — was erased twice: once by force, once by Western indifference. Still uncomfortably relevant.