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.

  • 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…

  • Hello World, Again!

    I suppose the traditional way to start a new blog is with “Hello World.” Which feels especially appropriate when the project I’m starting a blog about involves spending an unreasonable amount of time digging through all the other places I said hello to the internet over the last 25 years. Welcome to Wygle Wide Web. This…

  • The $50 ADHD Tax

    A forgotten $50 cancellation fee opens a much deeper archive hole: couples counseling, Mars Hill’s long shadow, Theo’s birthday, and a moment in 2019 when I genuinely believed we had found a way through.

  • New photo added to “VSCO Cam”

  • New photo added to “VSCO Cam”

  • New photo added to “VSCO Cam”

  • New photo added to “VSCO Cam”

  • New photo added to “VSCO Cam”

  • New photo added to “VSCO Cam”

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