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.
🤪 crazy next few days in store. Final three days of mind steward kids theater camp and I’ll be onsite full time each day. Will be fun, invigorating, but I’m definitely looking forward to some rest this weekend.
07:59 AM July 1, 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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