This is a /now page, inspired by Derek Sivers. It's a snapshot of what I'm focused on right now. Updated regularly to reflect my current work, projects, and life.

Life

“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted. ” —Sylvia Plath

I'm 30 years old. I'm currently living in Calgary, Alberta, on Treaty 7 territory and I'm planning to move back to my hometown of Winnipeg, Manitoba soon.

I hold myself accountable on a large number of daily tasks and habits with Beeminder: seventeen goals and counting, everything from steps and sleep to word counts and chess puzzles.

I'm trying to start a community and accessible spaces for writers, makers, and learners through my self-hosted server and in-person events.

I recently deleted my corporate social media accounts (Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads, X, Reddit, and Discord). If you want to reach me, see /accounts or /contact.

Work

Regarding work, I have a few plates currently spinning. My biggest commitment is now this website, Brennan.Day! I've been writing full-time for about eight months now: over 450,000 words and 200+ posts. I syndicate my work on Medium to make a living with the Medium Partner Program. I try to write longform (2,000-3,000 word) essays on a daily basis about tech criticism, culture, and identity and many other things.

You can help support my work here.

I also am focused on the company I founded, 🍓 Berry House. I'm the lead developer of this little web development studio, taking on new clients. One of our projects is building a wayfinder for Calgary organizations, called Calgary Groups.

I'm also the sole operator of Folk Zone, a self-hosted attempt to build the IndieWeb/Fediverse commons myself, running on four machines in my own living space. It hosts a federated social community, writing tools, a wiki, pastebin, URL shortener, and more, currently invite/application-based while I work out the kinks.

I host and run fanfiction.lol, a fork of Archive of Our Own that is silly, fun, and low-takes, which took off unexpectedly after a viral Tumblr post. Fanfic.lol has more options for archive warnings and relationship dynamic types, no invite queue, and prioritizes the canonization of tags.

I built brennan.click, a wiki-linked digital commonplace book / digital garden with auto-generated stubs and pure-CSS hover transclusion and footnotes.

I'm also an organiser (not the lead) for the Web Writers' Collective, a loose effort to help writers find each other and build community across the IndieWeb.

The pilot cohort I was preparing to teach at 🔥 Fireweed Writing School remains on hold.

Writing

Beyond my essay writing, I write 750 words daily. I write technical articles on dev.to. I write in a public diary on DreamWidth. I also try to write a new poetry occasionally on my Tumblr, BK Poetry. I've been having a wonderful time microblogging on Bluesky and the Fediverse (@brennan@social.lol). I'm also on the wonderful 32-bit cafe and MelonLand forums, and I've recently joined the ~tildeverse at tilde.town and tilde.club.

I am writing a book, a memoir focusing on the craft of writing and an imagist poetry chapbook. The working title for both is Poetics of Grace. I am also helping my Mom write her autobiography.

Education

I graduated in April 2025 with a Bachelor of Arts in English (Honours) from Mount Royal University with a 3.8 GPA. My honours thesis, How the English Degree Will Save the World, examined the transformative potential of literary studies and introduced "bloodwriting" as a bridge between Indigenous knowledge and digital practices.

I am currently enrolled at the University of the People, obtaining a 4-year Bachelor of Science, majoring in Computer Science.

Hobbies

I love coding open-source projects (like this site!) on GitHub but plan to move to Source.tube and GitLab. I keep track of my daily coding with WakaTime. See my projects for more details.

I play chess regularly, usually a couple games of bullet chess a day and at least one rapid and puzzle a day.

I practice my French on Duolingo and Clozemaster once a day.

I read a little each day and keep track with StoryGraph. And I track my movie-watching on Letterboxd.

I meditate with my Apple Watch for a few minutes each day. I try to reach 10,000 steps per day and 7.5 hours of sleep, tracking with both my FitBit and Apple Watch.

I've gotten into the retro handheld scene, mostly playing my backlog of emulated classics on a Retroid Pocket 2S.

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Want to work together? Check out Berry House services or get in touch directly.