Hi! I’m Joel Dueck, a fractional CTO, and a designer of small books and small websites (a publishing nerd).
My spare-time programming skills mostly support a practice of making elegant and effective artifacts on the web and in print (Projects).
I live in Minnesota with my wife Jessica and two children.
Notable entry points
- 2025
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AI is right about em-dashes
Humans invented them and should keep using them.How I license
Open source with a ‘show and tell’ requirementStrategy of Attention Economy
A filter for the new year. - 2023
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Vagrant writers
Seems like the really good writers let other people do the publishing?Northern Minnesota, October 2023
Short retrospective, with photosMind Palaces
A ‘mind palace’ is any cognitive system or lever built by a person or small group. - 2021