Scraps!

a home for longform miscellany (longposts, ephemera, ideas, experiments, prompts, provocations) — like a personal blog but more spontaneous & social

by brendan @schlage.town

On fun simple social building blocks…

Replying to Jared's thoughts on decomposing social media experiences into building blocks (identities, data, interfaces) with some building blocks I'd like to explore in Leaflet!

September 17, 2025

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On three ideas for speculative shops…

Thinking about three experimental store concepts I'd like to try, including a bookstore in a fridge, an experiential lemonade stand, and a roving consignment shop.

August 07, 2025

On a snapshot from the Morgan Library…

Exploring and annotating a list of (very old; rich with intrigue) book titles jotted down on a library visit, ten years later.

July 31, 2025

On publishing and the doc web…

A thread of thoughts on websites, documents, metaphors of post and page, and the aliveness of the web.

July 15, 2025

On the ultimate social recommendation engine…

Ideas for making super intensive bespoke social recs, for one single user at a time.

June 24, 2025

On getting weird with Wikipedia…

Exploring some favorite aspects of Wikipedia, and speculative project ideas for putting them to use.

June 23, 2025

On good learning tech…

Thinking about how we talk about technologies for learning, with an initial list of tools that enable learning in meaningful ways.

June 20, 2025

On keeping things scrappy…

Or, welcome to Scraps! — a new publication for miscellaneous long(-ish)form, with a focus on being unfocused, but also on writing about things I love and wonder about and want to share.

June 16, 2025