I'm Ev in Chicago. Kayaking instructor by summer, developer by winter, blogger whenever the web starts getting stupid again.
This site is my independent publishing desk: new dispatches about the web, small tools, autonomy, and the strange business of staying human online — plus recovered work from Far Beyond The Stars, the minimalism blog I wrote when blogs still felt like they could change your life.
The point is simple: publish directly, own the archive, keep the stack small, and let the writing do the damage.