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_posts/2026-05-11-survey.md

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-My fellowship with the Software Sustainability Institute is trucking along!
+My fellowship with the Software Sustainability Institute keeps going. 
 
-There were 32 people who filled out the survey. They were distributed across a few geographies:
+There were 32 people who filled out the survey. They were distributed across a few geographies: ranging from
 
 In the months since this survey was released, it's been interesting to track how m 
 

_projects/2020-02-26-leyendos.md

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+---
+layout: post
+title: leyendos de litio
+range: 2026
+category: blog
+published: false
+image: "../assets/img/100-mountain-preview.png"
+---
+
+**Leyendos de Litio** was a project proposal about lithium extraction in the Bolivian salt flats.
+

_projects/2025-08-11-internet-walking-tours.md

@@ -13,11 +13,13 @@ image: "../assets/img/walk-preview.png"
 
 Building off of the work of artists like <a href="https://mhpbooks.com/books/networks-of-new-york/">Ingrid Burrington</a> and <a href="https://internetour.com">Mario Santamaría</a>, I'm keen to bring our digital infrastructures beyond the comfort of slide decks and auditorium-style presentations to something more experimental, something that shifts how ideas can be communicated through performance, movement, and spontaneous exchange.
 
-_<a href="https://programme.openhouse.org.uk/listings/13284">The first internet walking tour took place at the Open House festival</a>. Please <a href="https://luma.com/internet-infra-walks">sign up on luma</a>, or <a href="https://www.aleesteele.com/writing">join my newsletter</a> if you're interested in joining other internet tours!_
+_<a href="https://programme.openhouse.org.uk/listings/13284">The first internet walking tour took place at the Open House festival</a>. Feel free to <a href="https://luma.com/internet-infra-walks">sign up on luma</a> or <a href="https://www.aleesteele.com/writing">join my newsletter</a> if you're interested in joining other internet tours._
 
 During the first internet walking tour, we traced the routes of fibre-optic cables beneath our feet, decoded the markings on ubiquitous manholes covering British Telecom tunnels, and explored the emergence of 5G masts, public Wi-Fi networks, and even a functioning internet exchange point.
 
-I’m interested in expanding this work into a broader series of “digital heritage” tours – mapping how London’s landscape has evolved alongside communication technologies. Could we walk through the former sites of the General Post Office, or trace the transformation of BT from a public utility to a global telecoms giant? These are the stories of connection, communication, and control that define the modern city.
+I’m interested in expanding this work into a broader series of “digital heritage” tours – mapping how London’s landscape has evolved alongside communication technologies. Could we walk through the former sites of the General Post Office, or trace the transformation of BT from a public utility to a global telecoms giant? 
+
+These are the kinds of stories of connection, communication, and control that define the modern city.
 
 ![tour-1](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/H1ZRjlC-Wx.jpg)
 ![tour-2](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/HkWCig0Z-l.jpg)

_projects/2026-01-15-digital-cairns.md

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 title: digital cairns
 range: 2026
 category: blog
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 **Digital cairns** draws inspiration from cairns and shrines to explore digital formats for wayfaring, marking, guiding and tracing forest relations on the web.
 
 More about the SUPERB project: 
 
-The systemic solutions for upscaling of urgent ecosystem restoration for forest-related biodiversity and ecosystem services, also known as SUPERB, project is led by the European Forest Institute and involves a consortium of 36 project partners and 90 associate partners, and receives €20 million in support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme.
+> The systemic solutions for upscaling of urgent ecosystem restoration for forest-related biodiversity and ecosystem services, also known as SUPERB, project is led by the European Forest Institute and involves a consortium of 36 project partners and 90 associate partners, and receives €20 million in support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme.
 
-King’s contribution will focus on exploring how humanities-based digital methods can be used to understand forest issues and broader societal contexts and engagements around restoration, drawing on approaches from fields such as science and technology studies, environmental humanities and Internet studies.
+> King’s contribution will focus on exploring how humanities-based digital methods can be used to understand forest issues and broader societal contexts and engagements around restoration, drawing on approaches from fields such as science and technology studies, environmental humanities and Internet studies.
 
 _This work was commissioned by the <a href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/superb-upscaling-forest-restoration">SUPERB project</a> with Jonathan Gray and Liliana Bounegru._

_projects/2026-02-26-100-mountains.md

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-**100 Days, 100 Mountains** is a meditative endurance practice grounded in repetition.
+**100 Days, 100 Mountains** is a meditative endurance practice, grounded in repetition.
 
 Over 100 days, I'm drawing 100 mountains. 
 
 As of 15 March, I've drawn 22.
-As of 22 April, I've drawn 59.
+As of 22 April, I've drawn 59.
+As of 12 May, I've drawn 79.
+As of 4 June, I've drawn 102.
+
+Maybe I'll make 100 more.
+
+<img src="../assets/img/mountains-preview.png"/>
+
+_A few photos, from June 2026. Photos by David Littlejohn-Carrillo._

design.md

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ I wrote that this website was made by me with peace in mind. But what does that
 
 # Principles 
 
-### On snails
+### On snails and slowness
 
 First and foremost, the lovely snail that you see at the bottom of every page was illustrated by <a href="https://mikehankin.com/folk-film-club">Mike Hankin</a> originally for <a href="https://offbeat.film">OffBeat Film Festival</a>. I emailed him to ask if I can use his snail for this website.
 
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ The rise of the phrase "move slowly and make things" (as opposed to all-too-famo
 
 Grace Lee Boggs also wrote <a href="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e2b1eb9509d4862f6e435ef/t/64206bd917728c27ce623c26/1679846362608/1972+-+Organization+Means+Commitment+-+Grace+Lee+Boggs.pdf">a lot about the time and patience</a> required build a better world, which I think is very snail-like, too.
 
-### On the Quiet and Meditative Web
+### On the quiet and meditative web
 
 The internet is noisy. In a time of [information glut](https://mcluhangalaxy.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/neil-postman-on-technologys-faustian-bargain/), I aim to create work that decreases that noise, or at least makes it easier to navigate. For me, that usually means using less, not more design features.
 
@@ -71,8 +71,22 @@ That is to say, I've learned from others' openness in the most expansive definit
 
 So for now, I'm still practicing with an open ethos, though I'm all too aware of its nuances in the present day. We'll see if that changes (and yes, I'm allowed to change my mind if I do)!
 
+### What's so wrong with 
+
+While I do aim to practice an open ethos, I believe firmly in privacy practices on the web.
+
+My website doesn't use any kind of tracking, cookies, or ad technology. I recently started using <a href="https://www.goatcounter.com">GoatCounter</a> in June 2026 to collect very basic information about how many (and from where) people are navigating to my website. GC is widely known as an open source alternative to Google Analytics and others. 
+
+It doesn't collect any identifiable information, which you can check here. This is why you didn't see a cookie consent banner when you came to my website.
+
+I've gone back and forth on on whether collecting data here is valuable, or simply a form of a vanity metric. 
+
+Ultimately, my own justification is a sense of wonder and curiousity: I'm simply curious about who's .
+
+So, I suppose they are vanity metrics after all!
+
 ### License
 
 Everything on this website is licensed CC BY 4.0, but I've love for you to be in touch if there's anything you found here that is meaningful or useful for you.
 
-_This page was last updated on 13 May 2026._
+_This page was last updated on 5 June 2026._