User:Zacharykai.net

Zachary Kai

Pronouns: he/him/él

Space fantasy writer, offbeat queer, traveler, zinester, and avowed generalist.

Kosovo

https://zacharykai.net/

Chat Nickname: zacharykaiwrites

Elsewhere: All my links, GitHub, LinkedIn, StoryGraph, Ko-fi, Metalabel

Contact: zacharykai.net/contact

Zachary Kai

Intro

Hi! I'm Zachary Kai, a space fantasy writer, offbeat queer, twenty-something, curiosity enthusiast, traveler, zinester, and avowed generalist. I'm Australian, and oscillate between living there and overseas (right now: Kosovo).

I started my site in 2024, when I moved from publishing as Leo Flynn to writing under my own name, and have loved tinkering with it ever since.

My sparkline and chat nickname: zacharykaiwrites

Seeking Remote Work

I'm looking for new remote work opportunities! Here's my CV. If I'd be a good fit for your organization or project, get in touch.

Elsewhere

• GitHub
• LinkedIn
• StoryGraph
• Ko-fi
• Metalabel
• Everything else: lunaseeker.com/elsewhere

Websites

• zacharykai.net: my personal site.
• lunaseeker.com: my independent press, with zines on Metalabel.
• Road Less Read: my book blog.
• lab.lunaseeker.com: inspired by capjamesg and Joe Crawford, a lab where I publish experiments that didn't fit anywhere else.

With Claire Houck, I help run the Indie Press Webring.

Setup

• Hand-typed HTML and CSS in VSCodium, transferred over SFTP, hosted on an Ubuntu VPS. See my colophon.
• A handful of PHP scripts for automations, plus a self-hosted FreshRSS instance for myself and my sites.
• Public domain (CC0), no analytics, scripts, tracking, or cookies.
• Source: github.com/zacharykai/personal

IndieWeb Building Blocks

• h-card on the homepage, with rel-me links
• Webmention receiving via webmention.io, shown at /webmentions
• Self-hosted IndieAuth (authorization and token endpoints, plus indieauth-metadata)
• Micropub endpoint
• RSS feed at /assets/rss.xml, plus a newsletter

Slash Pages

Has slash pages, including:

• about at https://zacharykai.net/about
• accessibility at https://zacharykai.net/accessibility
• blogroll at https://zacharykai.net/blogroll
• bookmarks at https://zacharykai.net/bookmarks
• changelog at https://zacharykai.net/changelog
• colophon at https://zacharykai.net/colophon
• contact at https://zacharykai.net/contact
• guestbook at https://zacharykai.net/guestbook
• hello at https://zacharykai.net/hello
• now at https://zacharykai.net/now
• random at https://zacharykai.net/random
• search at https://zacharykai.net/search
• subscribe at https://zacharykai.net/subscribe
• support at https://zacharykai.net/support
• trades at https://zacharykai.net/trades
• unoffice hours at https://zacharykai.net/unoffice-hours
• uses at https://zacharykai.net/uses
• Also: /art, /bookmarklets, /cv, /interests, /photos, /press, /visited

Directories

I curate several of these, each with a different theme:

• Crosswinds + Currents
• Fanfic Writers Collective
• Guestbooks Galore
• Oceania Web Atlas
• Proust Questionnaire
• Queer Web Directory
• Static HTML Sites
• Title Traders

Webrings

Hosting

I love these! So I had to host a few:

• Star Wars Webring
• Vintage Car Webring
• Indie Press Webring (with Claire Houck)

Member Of

• IndieWeb Webring (🕸💍)
• XXIIVV Webring
• Web Writers Collective
• A11y Webring
• CSS Joy
• Design System Club
• Meta Ring
• Unoffice Hours
• Femslash Ring
• …and more in my site's footer.

IndieWeb Events + Challenges

2026

• HTML Day: announced and joined HTML Day: Online, then wrote up what we made.

2025

• Weird Web October: made a webpage each day of the month.
• no-vember: made a webpage each day of the month, each with a different constraint.

IndieWeb Carnival Hosting

Book Club

• Oct 2025: The Creative Act by Rick Rubin

Carnival

• Feb 2026: 'Intersecting Interests'

Fiction Carnival

• Feb 2026: 'We've Got To Dream Past It'

Movie Club

• Apr 2025: The Castle (1997)
• Sep 2025: The Wild Robot (2024)

Related Projects

On Road Less Read, I also showcase interviews with the hosts of past carnivals:

• IndieWeb Book Club
• IndieWeb Carnival

Writing About The IndieWeb

• How To Join The IndieWeb Wiki
• Weaving A Closer-Knit Web
• More under #indieweb

Itches

All

To Do

• Writing more often!

Done

• Making my code easier to read, by indenting it and a liberal amount of comments
• Creating a search function for my sites
• Automating my RSS feed
• Self-hosting IndieAuth and adding a Micropub endpoint

Personal Site

To Do

• Turning it into something I post on more frequently
• Filling out my projects page

Done

• Reorganizing the content structure
• Adding a changelog and accessibility statement

Road Less Read

To Do

• Fix up the existing pages and build out the site!

Done

• Switching from WordPress to static HTML