Badges
This article documents the why behind each badge I use in the footer of this website.
CC BY-SA
The bulk of creative work on this website is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribute-ShareAlike. Promoting free cultural works is critical to fostering human relationships and intellectual development. Artificially constraining human thought has far-reaching consequences and shifts even more power to people with capital. Creativity should be shared and discussed by everyone.
GNU AGPL
The bulk of the code used for this website is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License. Promoting free/libre software is critical to fostering user freedom and intellectual development. Non-free/libre software (as well as hardware) is constantly being used to undermine user autonomy and enshittify everything. The tools you use everyday, either by choice or because you are forced to, should act in your best interests, not the interests of its creator. A tool is a user agent and it has a corresponding Duty of Loyalty.
Internet Archive
I strive to distribute my work in durable formats. The Internet Archive is an invaluable digital library which stores and makes freely available millions of cultural artifacts. They have tasked themselves with the goal of providing Universal Access to All Knowledge. Their Wayback Machine allows anybody to travel back in time and explore websites from many years ago. As evidence of their quality, they are a congressionally designated depository for U.S. Government documents.
Queer
I love the word queer. It is delightfully ambiguous. Not only do I identify as queer, but I also believe queerness to be a moral statement of immense importance to the human condition.
IndieWeb
Despite being primarily a lurker as of July 2026, I still consider myself to be a proud member of the IndieWeb. It is a community of independent websites focused on producing tools and guidance to help people take back control of their presence on the web. Their wiki covers hundreds of topics and perspectives on just about everything related to web-publishing. Like Wikipedia, I continually find myself perusing the articles and following each article's list of references. Eventually, I realized that subscribing to their weekly digest was the most convenient way to watch what's going on.
Microformats
This website uses microformats as a method of making HTML the preferred interface for humans and machines alike. Microformats are a good idea for numerous reasons. Principally, they encourage keeping data visible for human reading.
Debian
Most of my machines run Debian. Given the critical role of operating systems in our daily lives, everybody deserves one that is secure and community controlled. Debian, the self-proclaimed universal operating system, fits the bill. It is a project run by thousands of volunteers from all over the world, committed to building and maintaining a stable platform for computing.
Firefox
This website is developed with and tested against Firefox, both on desktop and mobile. When it comes to fully featured web browsers, there is currently only one true alternative to Google Chrome right now, and that is Firefox. Unfortunately, the organization behind Firefox, Mozilla, receives the vast majority of its funding from Google, casting doubt on its ability to be independent. However, on the whole, Mozilla is pushing for an Internet that respects people and their privacy. Mozilla is also connected to the Thunderbird email client, which I use everyday.