Inflatable Ink

Undernotes: Plain text

A few text-based links and, inevitably, some murder and politics

For this undernote, it seems I have accidentally alighted upon a few text-based links. I have a particular liking for text. While I'm no purist, I like text editors, text-based formatting, text adventures, command line interfaces and, of course, I love books and poems.

My holiday season listening turned a little political, which is not uncommon

Today's undernote covers just a few of the articles, podcasts and radio shows I encountered over the holiday break. A political skew this time, since I take in right wing conspiracies, Labour factions, the unpopularity of Keir Starmer.

A project for 2026. Reading. Thinking about reading.

I'm staring down an uncertain year with lots of work ahead of me and no guarantees. Still, I want to start putting out new words here. How do I square that? Perhaps the answer is to make a virtue of my vice.

  1. Undernotes: Plain text

    A few text-based links and, inevitably, some murder and politics

    While I'm no purist, I like text editors, text-based formatting, text adventures, command line interfaces and, of course, I love books and poems.

  2. My holiday season listening turned a little political, which is not uncommon

    A political skew this time, since I take in right wing conspiracies, Labour factions, the unpopularity of Keir Starmer.

  3. A project for 2026. Reading. Thinking about reading.

    Trying out an experiment to make procrastination work for me.

  4. A story by Matt Zandstra (first published in Free Radicals Magazine 2021)

  5. Poems by Gwyneth Lewis, William Bonar, Courtney Kampa and Antonella Anedda

  6. A story by Matt Zandstra (first aired on the Termination Line podcast August 2023)

  7. Poems by Damir Šodan, Meghan O'Rourke, Pierre Joris and Alexandra Petri

  8. How I'm building this site

  9. How many hello worlds do we have in us?