Joel Dueck

Joel

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

Notes on ‘Don Quixote’
Recording thoughts while reading.

Color Reception
Environment as brush, mind as canvas.

Manually type punctuation
Enter correct quotes and dashes while you write. Computers and other people will screw it up.

AI is right about em-dashes
Humans invented them and should keep using them.

How I license
Open source with a ‘show and tell’ requirement

Strategy of Attention Economy
A filter for the new year.

2023

Vagrant writers
Seems like the really good writers let other people do the publishing?

Northern Minnesota, October 2023
Short retrospective, with photos

Mind Palaces
A ‘mind palace’ is any cognitive system or lever built by a person or small group.

2021

Being in the Graph Mind