Thank You Stranger

May 23, 2026 ·

A few interesting things are happening in parallel nowadays. I recently removed the blind view counter on this website and now have a more focused (though non-creepy) tracker set up noting who views it and how they interact with it. I am also working on my book project, more on which in a second below. Maybe this was always happening and I just notice it now because of how I've set things up, but I've been noticing how bots interact with this site, and in contrast how people do it. So these past few days, I've been waking up to reports of people showing up and downloading rough copies of my book. Good news, one hopes. And it's only a handful of people so nothing major or crazy or anything like that. But that also means that the behavior is surgical and with intent. I don't know what someone in Ludhiana, Punjab is doing with a working copy of my book. But whoever it is, God bless you and I wish you well in your journey. You are free to copy, mock, and edit my work freely. At least someone is interested in it.

Updates on the book. I’ve scratched my last methodology, though it was a great learning experience and taught me this book publishing ordeal isn’t as easy as it sounds. Like filmmaking and music, a lot goes into it, and a casual outsider can make comments that hit the producers of the work a certain way that consumers don’t mean or think about. There were a lot of decisions, and some of them went off the rails so badly that I was losing motivation to continue with the project. I’d already spent time standing this website up and making it work in a way that I like, so the book should match its look and feel more closely rather than figuring that out from scratch all over again. I now have a new version that looks much more like this website than the original did. It’s simultaneously enabling and overpowering to realize I can make the book look like anything.

Anyway, I want to thank the stranger from Ludhiana who downloaded a working copy of the book this morning. I just hope they come back and get this new version, too. It still has a few bugs here and there, but it's much closer to done I'd say. I think in a week or so I can send it off to get printed. I can put it at the store front at that point.

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