About Me

I’m a systems librarian at CUNY, which means I spend my days thinking about library platforms and the people who use them. I’ve been in CUNY libraries since 2008—essentially my entire adult life.

Like a lot of people my age who ended up in tech work, I grew up online. I had Geocities pages, ran fansites (‘N Sync, Linkin Park, the works), got hosted on friends’ sites on .nu domains, and ran a Greymatter-powered blog. For a brief time, I even self-hosted a site on a box in my bedroom.

That early tinkering eventually turned into a path: Computer Science led me to Library & Information Science, which led me to systems librarianship. These days, I help maintain and improve the systems that libraries rely on to connect people with information.

Outside of work, I knit (started in library school and never stopped), cook vegan food, and ride my bike. I live in Philadelphia with my partner, kid, and cat, though I work in New York City. I also fold laundry with more care than most things deserve—a habit from working at a laundromat in high school.

I’m trying to read more and watch less TV. It’s a work in progress.

For a periodic snapshot of what I’m up to right now, see my /now page.

About This Site

A personal blog, a reading log, a knitting notebook, and an excuse to stay weird on the internet. Part IndieWeb experiment, part archive, part nostalgia for when people owned their little corners of the web.

Built with Jekyll and hosted on GitHub Pages. Reading data comes from Calibre Web and manual entries; knitting projects from Ravelry. Webmentions sent and received via webmention.io and jekyll-webmention_io. Colors are Flexoki by Steph Ango. Dark and light modes follow your system preference but can be toggled manually.

I also keep a /uses page listing the hardware, software, and other tools I rely on.