AARON M. AIKEN
Human // Harrisburg, PA // 🇺🇸
Maker by instinct — software, leather, words. Coffee addict. I build my own tools, take the long way on purpose, and spend my best hours with my family 🙂
→ See my /now page for what I'm currently up to.
I’m terrible lately at sharing what I work on, something in an of itself to work on. I have a few things “finished” to share. The first is a small book I wrote (PDF) about the debt I took on as my marriage fell apart. More words about it here.
03:37 PM June 19, 2026 EDT
// My Words
I make things. Software by trade, leather goods by hand, and words wherever they land. A few years ago I built this site as an experiment — static pages on Jekyll and GitHub Pages, with a little Python app I wrote to post my status. It's dead simple on the front end and was a real climb on the back end, and it's become the online home I'd been looking for a long time.
Getting here took the long way. I spent years scattered across the internet — Xanga and Facebook in 2005, Twitter in 2006, then LinkedIn (🤢), WordPress (so many self-hosted sites), and more recently Micro.blog, Scribbles, omg.lol (especially my status), and as of February 2026, Pika. Trying more than one thing is core to who I am; life is an experiment. But the scattering is settling now, and most of it runs through here.
If you want the how-it's-built version, that's the colophon. Otherwise the buttons below go deeper down the rabbit hole.
Thanks for visiting, and thanks for reading,
Aaron Aiken
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