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. You can also email me (brent bailey at duck dot com) if you so wish - I am not always great at keeping up with emails, but it's always nice to hear from someone who liked something I wrote.

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.