Welcome to joshuaw.xyz, my home at the end of the internet.

My name is Joshua Whiting (he/they). I am a dad, a husband, a media specialist / librarianish person in the educational technology department of a school district, a sometimes writer, and maybe some other things.

I want to learn about, write, and make more things, and I wanted a place of my own to put those things, so I created this site. This is my main venue for creative activity and publication on the internet.

You can scroll down for links to recent notes, or find a menu of additional features by clicking on the [ + ] sign in the top right corner of this web page.

Thanks for visiting.

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2022.03.26

‘Album Released’ notifications might be my favorite phone notifications.

These are:

two of my favorite albums
two of my favorite albums to listen to on vinyl, that I own on vinyl¹
two of my favorite albums that sound like spring to me, though I can’t say why²
two of my favorite albums that I am listening to on vinyl right now, and noting on my website on this day, for these reasons

[ Full post: Spring Listening 2022: Turn Into and Everybody Works by Jay Som ]

2022.03.22

dead thistle blossoms shaking in the wind near the shore of Little Dell Resevoir, still mostly frozen in February

I went to Little Dell a month ago, and this is what it was like.

[ Full post: Little Dell February ]

2022.03.21

Screenshot of my website with updated domain joshuaw.xyz as listed in the Netlify management dashboard

Upgraded the primary domain for this site to its final form here at the end of the internet:

Welcome to joshuaw.xyz

[ Full post: welcome to joshua w dot xyz ]

2022.03.20

Updated the home page of this site today, adding prominent links to RSS feeds, a gallery of recent post images, and returning a link to the “Featured / Longer Things” post collection. Now I need to update the front matter of all the other missing posts that belong in that “featured” collection.

And with the images back I feel like I should start taking and posting more photographs of things other than just screenshots and shit I bought.

[ Full post: Home and Taxonomy Updates (March 20, 2022) ]

2022.03.20

I had in mind a new reading update rule for 2022 - I wasn’t going to post a reading update about any book (neither here nor on Goodreads) until I was at least 10-15% of the way into the book.

But I forgot my rule, and now the books I barely started and haven’t continued to read are hanging over my head, and I hate all you big invisible jerks for holding me silently accountable for every random thing I post here.