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I’m Dan Ott. This is my website. It is hosted at danott.website. You can subscribe to Dan Ott’s Website RSS Feed. Here’s a list of things I’ve written in reverse chronological order.

• Weeknotes: 2024, Weeks 39–41
• In Search of a Publishing Workflow
• Weeknotes: 2024, Week 38
• Weeknotes: 2024, Week 37
• Weeknotes: 2024, Week 36
• Weeknotes: 2024, Week 35
• Weeknotes: 2024, Week 34
• Keystone
• Badlands
• Sioux City or Falls
• Weeknotes 2024: Weeks 28–33
• St. Louis
• Weeknotes: 2024, Week 27
• Weeknotes: 2024, Week 26
• Weeknotes: 2024, Week 25
• Weeknotes: 2024, Week 24
• Weeknotes: 2024, Week 23
• Weeknotes: 2024, Week 22
• Weeknotes: 2024, Week 21
• Weeknotes: 2024, Week 20
• Weeknotes: 2024, Week 19
• How to bulk text in 2010
• Weeknotes: 2024, Week 18
• Weeknotes: 2024, Week 16
• Weeknotes: 2024, Week 15
• Weeknotes: 2024, Week 14
• Weeknotes: 2024, Week 13
• Weeknotes: 2024, Week 12
• Oh, the places you’ll write
• Near-field communication exploration
• Weeknotes: 2024, Week 11
• Weeknotes: 2024, Week 10
• Weeknotes: 2024, Week 9
• Of Subdomains & Subdirectories
• Weeknotes: 2024, Week 8
• There is life outside this device
• Unplug
• Weeknotes: 2024, Week 7
• Weeknotes: 2024, Week 6
• Weeknotes: 2024, Week 5
• Weeknotes: 2024, Week 4
• Allow Empty
• Weeknotes: 2024, Week 3
• Weeknotes: 2024, Week 2
• Hello World!
• Forty
• Weeknotes: 2024, Week 1
• 2023: Year in Review
• What you’ve seen is what you’ll give
• Introducing Complexity
• Communication is everything
• Do Repeat Yourself
• I will benefit from being wrong in public
• The Arboretum
• Notifications are the water we swim in
• Corrections
• Hope for Ai Future
• Planning a Feature
• Start a blog
• Booking a haircut
• Thirty-Nine
• More Indieweb Goofin
• Indieweb Goofin
• Beginning Climbing
• Looking for an Indieweb Failure
• Action Begets Action
• My Bookmarking Bookmarklet
• Simplification
• Need for Speed
• Leadership failures
• I kicked this off with a bookmarklet of my own design!
• Proof of concept
• Why though?
• Bring your own static site generator
• Action and ideation
• How I write to readonly databases in tests
• Recently
• Recently
• Recently
• Immutability, Meet Premature Abstraction
• I Love Writing
• Starting over
• One Week Until Turkey
• PDA. No, the other kind of PDA.
• Dismal Times
• Promises
• Fish Hands
• Sabbatical
• The War on Tumblers
• My Kingdom for an Abstraction
• Heres the thing
• Extreme Precautions
• Anti-Racist
• Freaky Fast Subs
• The 100% Correct Integration of Technology
• The Screwtape Legacy
• Play
• Coming up empty
• Millennium Hip-Hop Party
• Covidcado Toast
• VOID-0
• Im an introvert
• Pizza Night
• Cynicism
• Strait & Narrow
• Love. Fear.
• Thirty-Six
• Generating ActiveStorage Fixtures
• Life comes at you pretty fast
• Seeding a Rails Development Environment with Test Fixtures
• Unlimited Dada
• Integrating Rails Encrypted Credentials with VCR
• New Year, New Ewe
• 20 Twenty
• Potter
• Welp. You did it.
• Deploying Rails to Netlify
• Christmas Milk
• Good Enough to Ship
• Server-generated React Responses
• Using React Context for Suspenseful Data Fetching
• Deconstruct Conference 2019
• Free to Ignore
• I Built a Hook
• How I use Slack
• Books I Read in 2017
• Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
• Immutability
• Green
• MySQL on Suffering