User:Someguy.us

Scott Killen

Scott is a CPA and preacher who has been quietly publishing on his own domain since the mid-nineties. SomeGuy.us is his personal blog.

Charleston, South Carolina

https://someguy.us/

Contact: @scott@social.scottkillen.com

About

SomeGuy.us is my personal blog. I've kept a personal site in one form or another since the mid-nineties, when publishing on your own domain felt like a small act rather than a marketing exercise. It still feels that way to me.

Most of what I post is short: poems, small reflections, and occasional notes from the corners of software I still like to tinker in. I'm working toward writing more about scripture — not sermon transcripts, but the smaller studies that come out of preparing to preach: a passage that opened up, a word worth sitting with, a connection I hadn't seen before.

The rest of my week I spend as a CPA running Killen & Associates, the firm my father started decades ago. Before that I was a software developer and web designer, which is why this site exists at all. I preach on Sundays at the Edisto Island Church of Christ.

Topics

Topics I write about on my blog, drawn from the site's current tag set:

Jesus, prayer, supplication, veneration, redemption, renewal, awakening, sin, slavery, accountability, morning, light, humor, haiku, fair

Longer-term I expect the mix to lean further toward scripture study notes alongside the poetry and short reflections.

my indie web setup

https://someguy.us/ is my primary home, where I post:
- short poems, haiku, and reflections as articles
- occasional scripture study notes as articles
The site publishes an Atom feed for subscribers and includes a blogroll.
Fediverse creator attribution (rel-me-style linkage back to my Mastodon account) is set in page metadata so replies and shares on the fediverse can be traced back to me.

authoring practices

Posts are authored as Markdown (with some Nunjucks templates for structural pages) in Visual Studio Code and committed to GitHub. See the colophon below for the full build stack.

silo presences

I treat silos as places I show up rather than places I live. Current presences, in rough order of how often I actually touch them:

Mastodon — self-hosted at social.scottkillen.com/@scottkillen. Because I run the instance, this is closer to indieweb than a typical silo.
GitHub — ScottKillen (site source, other public projects)
Flickr — photos/scottkillen
Pixelfed — portfolio.pixelfed.social/scottkillen
Spotify — sdkillen
X — @scottkillen (mostly historical)

I am not currently running an automatic POSSE pipeline; cross-posting, when it happens, is manual. Adding a proper POSSE flow (starting with Mastodon, since I control that endpoint) is on the list of things to work on.

colophon

Full details at someguy.us/colophon. In short:

Static site generator: Eleventy (v3.x on the current build)
Hosting: Cloudflare Pages
Source: GitHub (private repo)
Editor: Zed
Content formats: Markdown for posts, Nunjucks for templates
Styling: Bootstrap 5 with a custom Sass layer
Icons: Font Awesome (Sharp Duotone Regular), with unused icons stripped per page at build time

working on

Rough, honest order:

Writing more small scripture study notes here rather than letting them stay in preaching prep files
Adding a modest automatic POSSE flow from my site to my self-hosted Mastodon
Cleaning up and republishing older poems that have drifted through various site iterations since the nineties

want to work especially with

other bloggers writing about scripture from their own domains
Eleventy users with an indieweb bent
people running their own Mastodon instance who have thought through the site ↔ instance bridge