Writing
Essays & half-finished thoughts
Originally written for wolfbiter.medium.com, reproduced here in full.
January 17, 2024 · 3 min read
Local Control for Yeelights using Home Assistant
A short guide to cutting Yeelight bulbs loose from the cloud and controlling them locally through Home Assistant.
July 15, 2022 · 3 min read
A Night Owl's Worst Nightmare: The Capitalistic Nightmare
On being wired for the night in a world built around sunrise — from school assemblies to the 9-to-5 grind.
May 28, 2022 · 3 min read
The Scam of Online Blogs
A former content writer on cost-per-word incentives, SEO-driven filler, and why most blog advice is a starting point, not a solution.
May 28, 2022 · 3 min read
The Deterioration of Democracy — Habib University Edition
A small campus meeting becomes a lens on how institutional dysfunction trickles down from the national to the personal.
July 10, 2021 · 4 min read
Companies or Us? Who Bears the Weight of Sustainability?
BP invented the personal carbon footprint to shift the blame onto consumers. It worked. It's still working.
May 17, 2021 · 3 min read
A Contrary to Social Conditioning
Why the people most punished for their emotions as children sometimes end up the most fluent in them as adults.
April 3, 2021 · 1 min read
An Ode to All Those Unheard
Distressed, depressed, and repressed emotions — a short, unpolished poem.
April 1, 2021 · 3 min read
Things I'm Still Learning
Notes to self on adult friendships, the lie of the highlight reel, and investing in the one relationship that never ends.
October 23, 2020 · 2 min read
Corpus Delicti and Trauma
A jurisprudence term about proving a crime happened becomes an unexpectedly precise metaphor for holding on to pain.