About this site

Hi! I'm Brent (link to my main website). I'm a programmer/artist/"creative technologist"/person who has trouble picking a title based in Brooklyn, New York. I'm not a big fan of social media, but I maintain a Bluesky account for professional purposes/shitposting, so feel free to DM me if you like something you see here or want to give me money.

I write about tech and culture, projects I do in those two spheres, and occasionally about less interesting topics like my life, goals, and dreams. This is a personal blog (don't call it a digital garden) so you get it all in one feed. I started this blog in 2022, but you can also find posts from my old Medium that I've imported here in preparation for Medium eventually paywalling the documentation I made of my mediocre grad school projects in 2018.

Lesser daemon is a silly little programmer pun, combining the concept of a "lesser demon", a class of not-so-strong demons usually found in old videogames, with a daemon, a background process that keeps running on your computer. I found out after coming up with it that it's also a Warhammer thing. Please don't hold it against me.

This website is hosted on Hetzner Cloud, and uses Ghost as a content management system. It also hosts a TiddlyWiki I am slowly sunsetting and the occasional web project that I don't want to purchase a domain name for. It collects some basic analytics with Plausible, which has a pretty good rep for respecting people's privacy. I intend to keep any data collection to a minimum unless for some reason my blog becomes popular enough that it can pay my rent.

Disclaimer: this site is in a perpetual state of being "under construction", I experiment with it a lot, and I would not count on URLs staying the same or content remaining up permanently. I do try to keep blog posts up unless I deeply regret them for some reason or other.