I'm Kelcey Swain. I write here when something is worth writing down: ideas, thoughts, the occasional argument. I also collect tunes: mostly British and Irish traditional music, transcribed and annotated in ABC notation.

This is a slow site. No feeds to optimise, no metrics to chase.

Recent writing

  • On Building Things Nobody Asked For

    A short reflection on the odd pleasure of building tools for yourself, and why the most useful infrastructure is often the kind you prototype at midnight.

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Tunes

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