THE PERSONAL WEB IS ALIVE AND WELL

Scripts, stories, and a lot of breakfast.

I'm Wes. I fix and build things for a living, then come home and build more things. This is where I write it all down.

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Personal Thoughts

Waiting for My Real Life to Begin

Somewhere past 40 I decided time was short and answered it by working harder, and now I'm working my way back.

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Three printed reference pages in a strict black-and-white serif layout, fanned out on a beige background.

Design & Identity01

The Vignelli Document Engine: Every PDF I Make, in One House Style

A small Python library that turns plain data into Word documents with a strict Vignelli-style grid, black-and-white charts and zero color, so every reference sheet I print looks like it came from the same shop.

A glass jar full of coins on a wooden table.

Personal02

A Quarter a Star: Setting Up a Chore Chart Economy for Three Kids

How I priced chores for three kids on our wall calendar, why every task earns stars, and why one star ended up worth a quarter instead of a penny.

Green plastic toy soldiers lined up in formation.

Personal Thoughts03

The G.I. Joe With One Leg

A secondhand G.I. Joe missing a leg taught me more about what things are worth than anything I've owned since.

A hand writing a letter in ink with a fountain pen in low light.

Prompt Library04

How to Keep AI-Drafted Emails and Messages From Sounding Like AI

The tells that make people ask "did AI write this?" in short emails and messages, a paste-in style block to hand the model, and a 30-second checklist to run before you hit send.