// home
This is my corner of the web — a small archive of things I've made, things I'm reading, and things I keep meaning to think more carefully about. Wander around. Click anything that catches your eye.
— last tended on a quiet Thursday
currently reading
Rebecca Solnit, slowly. The chapter on the color blue, twice.
marginalia
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
— attrib. Dorothy Parker
recent writing
A small essay on light through library windows, the difference between rest and idleness, and why I keep all my favorite bookmarks on paper. Written between rainstorms in March.
read it →
Small things I built to scratch an itch. A weather diary, a field-recording archive, a footnote generator.
// misc
things I keep returning to
elsewhere
"To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work."
— Mary Oliver
/now
making soup, learning ocaml, walking longer routes home.
field notes — march
A collection of overheard sentences, café receipts, things the cat dragged in.
07: a sparrow in the bookshop, refused to leave.
14: rain on the skylight, page 142.
22: someone left a tulip on the bench.
pinned
slow is also a pace.
trust the second draft.
leave the porch light on.
Half-finished essays, small experiments, and notebooks made public. A place where things are still wet.
archive
2019—2026
"keep going."
— a postcard from my grandmother
/about
I'm a software engineer by trade and an accidental archivist by temperament. I make small things, keep notebooks, and believe the open web is still worth tending. This site is hand-written, served as plain HTML, and updated whenever a thought finishes itself.
est. on a Sunday in 2019.
colophon
Set in Libre Baskerville, Nunito Sans, Inconsolata, and Kalam. Built by hand. Hosted on a small server in a quiet rack. No trackers, no cookies, no funny business.
hello@yongjoon.net — I read everything, I answer most.
© 2026
made slowly.