Wygle Wide Web

A quiet field journal of digital archaeology. Reconstructing a life from 25+ years of digital traces, with occasional help from ChatGPT when things get weird or surprising.

Day: August 22, 2026

  • Song Why‽

    I accidentally invented game. It goes like this: I give ChatGPT a song I love. Not necessarily my favorite song. Just one that has stuck around. Something I keep returning to, or something that immediately makes me think of a person, a room, a road, a period of my life, or occasionally absolutely nothing I…

  • WordPress Is Easy, They Said

    Today I learned that WordPress has spent the last twenty years solving problems I did not know I had. I wanted a blog. Not a website. Not a publication platform. Not a content-management system with reusable patterns and global style presets and template parts nested inside groups nested inside columns nested inside some other thing…

  • I Was Tweeting Before Twitter

    One of the things I’ve noticed while going through Adam At Last, the blog I started when I was 20, is that I apparently had already invented Twitter. Not Twitter Twitter. I would like my billions of dollars anyway. But mixed in among the long posts about music, girls, work, God, girls, music, girls, and occasionally something other…