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Brennan Kenneth Brown 👻 BOO! @brennan.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 21h

fanfiction.lol just hit 500 works! woo! :prami:

Screenshot of the fanfiction.lol homepage. A purple header with the edge of a rounded search box sits above a pastel rainbow stripe, and below it a yellow notice, cropped on the left, warns that features may break, data may be accidentally deleted, and people should not store important content there. The heading reads “fanfiction.lol: a small, independent archive of fanworks and original works,” followed by the site stats “267 fandoms | 362 users | 500 works” and the tagline “meant to be fun! spread joy, be excellent to each other, and express yourself creatively!”

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Brennan Kenneth Brown 👻 BOO! @brennan.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

I'm having so much fun messing around with this little guy!

A black handheld gaming device displaying a pale green ASCII-art and the word “Retroid” sits above a compact mechanical keyboard on a wooden desk. The keyboard features red, black, white, and peach keycaps with English and Japanese characters. A USB cable connects to the top of the handheld, and warm pink and purple lighting illuminates the setup.

A black handheld gaming device displaying a terminal system information (fastfetch) screen sits above a compact mechanical keyboard on a wooden desk. The keyboard has red, black, white, and peach keycaps with English and Japanese characters. A USB cable is connected to the top of the handheld, and warm lighting casts a pink and purple glow across the desk.

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Brennan Kenneth Brown 👻 BOO! @brennan.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Been trying to make a theme for Geany (my Markdown editor of choice for older hardware) based off of Moonflower.

Screenshot of the Geany text editor with a dark theme, showing a Markdown file called theme-kitchen-sink.md. Each heading level has its own colour and weight: the H1 “The Long Winter” is red, H2 “Chapter One” orange, H3 “Scene: the cabin” green, H4 “Beat: a knock at the door” blue, and H5 “Note: unreliable narrator” purple. Below them are Setext-style H1 and H2 headings with red and orange underlines. A section called “Emphasis and Inline Styles” shows italic, bold, bold italic and struck-through text, followed by a blockquote mixing bold, italic, inline code and a blue link. A task list at the bottom has two checked items, “Set up writerdeck” and “Install themes”, and two unchecked ones, “Actually write the novel” and “Procrastinate”, the last of which is struck through.

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Brennan Kenneth Brown 👻 BOO! @brennan.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

:janky_cake: HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE SYSADMIN THAT PUTS THE "SERVE" IN SERVER, girlonthemoon.xyz !! :janky_cake: Melo has been such a great friend on my journey through the IndieWeb. She has been a major inspiration to me, and is the only reason why […] [Original post on social.lol]

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Brennan Kenneth Brown 👻 BOO! @brennan.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

It's so frustrating how people just forget this.

MS Paint-style diagram of a ricochet. A stick figure labeled “You” fires a red line labeled “Bodyshaming” at a second stick figure labeled “Guy u don’t like but will never care.” The line bounces off him and hits a third stick figure at the bottom left, labeled “Person you care about with the same trait who now knows you think they’re ugly.” Red lines radiate from the point of impact on that figure’s chest.

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Brennan Kenneth Brown 👻 BOO! @brennan.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

For the first time since I started my blog, brennan.day has gotten a redesign! Goodbye gruvbox, hello moonflower! 🌻 Apt for the spooky season?

Screenshot of the newly designed brennan.day homepage in dark mode with a pink/rose accent colour. Header reads "brennan.day" with nav links for Now, About, Pages, Guestbook, Search, and RSS. Below, a "Brennan's Weblog" section shows a black-and-white maneki-neko cat illustration, an intro paragraph about the site, a pink "Start Here!" button, and a cursive signature reading "Brennan Kenneth Brown." A teal-bordered banner announces a new Collections feature for browsing essays by theme. The Recent Posts section lists post #294, "Kindness as First-class Citizen in Programming," by Brennan Kenneth Brown, dated September 27, 2026, tagged Community, with an excerpt about kindness as a design constraint in tech culture. A sidebar shows Brennan's bio with photo and a Support section.

Same brennan.day homepage layout as the other screenshot, but in old design of sage-green/gray accent color instead of pink, the "Start Here!" button and other accents are muted green-gray. The same post, "Kindness as First-class Citizen in Programming," appears without a post number or category label but instead a list of hashtags is shown (#personal essay, #Social Commentary, #kindness, #empathy, #ruby, #programming, #open source, #IndieWeb, #Digital Culture, #activism, #web development), followed by the excerpt.

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Brennan Kenneth Brown 👻 BOO! @brennan.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Years ago, there was an amazing, free, open-source online community bootcamp called Learn.co by Flatiron School which was primarily Ruby-focused. Of course, all of the infrastructure hasn't existed for a long time. But the repositories are still on GitHub. Over […] [Original post on social.lol]

Screenshot of the Learn.co Curriculum Archive site, showing Module 12: Sinatra. Section 1 (Sinatra Basics) lists lessons including What is Sinatra?, Sinatra from Scratch, Sinatra Basics, Using the Shotgun Development Server, Sinatra Hello World Lab, Sinatra Routes, and Sinatra Basic Routes Lab. Section 2 (MVC and Forms) lists Intro to MVC, Sinatra MVC File Structure, Sinatra Views, Sinatra Basic Views Lab, Using ERB, Sinatra Views Lab II, and Video Review: Forms. Section 3 (Forms) lists Intro to Capybara Tests, Dynamic Routes, Dynamic Routes Lab, HTML Forms and Params, Passing Data Between Views and Controllers, Basic Sinatra Forms Lab, Layouts and Yield, and Integrating Models for a Full MVC (partially visible at the bottom). Each lesson title is a hyperlink followed by its repository slug in monospace text.

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Brennan Kenneth Brown 👻 BOO! @brennan.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Been working on my own custom syntax theme, specifically for when I'm writing my blog posts in Markdown in my IDE that prioritizes both readability and joy. Trying to figure out a name. 🤔

Code editor showing a Markdown file with sections titled "Error-Checking," "Meta Descriptions," and "Filters." The Meta Descriptions section explains that descriptions should be between 70 and 160 characters, with part of the paragraph struck through. The Filters section shows a Nunjucks code block setting a pageDescription variable that falls back to a site description and truncates it to 155 characters, then uses it in meta description and Open Graph tags. Below that, a bulleted list notes pages with descriptions that were too short, linking to /now/, /search/, /slash-pages/, and /guestbook/ on brennan.day. A final Markdown code block shows a before-and-after example of a page description, expanded to mention "recent updates."

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Brennan Kenneth Brown 👻 BOO! @brennan.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

My case was escalated with Apple Support, and there was absolutely nothing server-side on their end that indicated the wipe. (MDM was also ruled out) Regarding backups and data, I'm fine as all of my work is on git and my homelabs, only the *how* of what happened […] [Original post on social.lol]

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Brennan Kenneth Brown 👻 BOO! @brennan.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Spent the entire day updating and adding to my Gemini capsule. I'm really happy with it now! :prami: gemini://tilde.pink/~brennan

Screenshot of a tilde.pink file browser showing the directory tree on the left (docs/, various tilde users, with ~brennan/ expanded to reveal various files) and the rendered Gemini capsule homepage on the right, titled "Brennan Brown's Gemini Capsule!" in ASCII-art-style text. The page introduces Brennan describing him as Queer, Métis, 30 years old, born in Winnipeg and based in Mohkínstsis/Calgary. Below that are linked sections: Guides,, Pages,, Writing,, and the start of a Shelf section.

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Brennan Kenneth Brown 👻 BOO! @brennan.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

I've had relatively no bot traffic for my site's entire existence up until two weeks ago. No idea why.

Stacked bar chart titled 'Banned Bots by Country' showing daily bot-ban hits from August 1–31, 2026, broken down by 27 countries. Totals stay low (under 50) through mid-August, spike sharply to ~215 hits on August 15 and ~415 on August 20 (both almost entirely from the United States), then rise steadily from August 22 onward, peaking around 300–360 hits per day in the final week with contributions spread across many more countries, led by a combination of countries.

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Brennan Kenneth Brown 👻 BOO! @brennan.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

*time traveller bumps into Will Keith Kellogg* the timeline:

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Brennan Kenneth Brown 👻 BOO! @brennan.social.lol.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Update on my Netlify: My sites continue to be online and new updates are deploying despite the overage continuing to increase. I have no idea why and I am too scared to ask.