DeSiena

Blogging on Life, Tech, and Urbanism

Now

What I’m building, reading, and listening to right now.

Updated October 6, 2026 · New York

Lucca in a green dinosaur costume, watching Peppa Pig from the couch
Bought a Halloween costume for our dinosaur.
Citi Field from field level behind home plate, Mets against the Giants on a sunny afternoon
Watched the Mets game from Jerry Seinfeld’s box with my dad.

Working on

Releasing Valencia, a WordPress theme

A clean-room recreation of a favorite blog silhouette, rebuilt as a modern block theme.

Next milestone: shipping it to production and writing up what porting a design between themes actually teaches you.

Reading

Technopoly

Neil Postman

Neil Postman will go down (in retrospect) as the best modern thinker on technology if our AI path continues the way it is.

Listening

Little Blue

Jacob Collier

I first saw Jacob with my friend Matt and have him back on repeat. Incredible song.

Little Blue

Jacob Collier feat. Brandi Carlile

Play on Spotify ↗

Watching

Silo

Season 3 · Apple TV+

It’s Comic-Con week, and while Hugh Howey won’t be there, I’d check out this series based on his books.

Thinking about

All the wrong ways we’re thinking about AI

We’re going to repeat the same mistakes we made with the blockchain.

Inspired by Derek Sivers’s /now. Updated monthly or when life shifts enough to warrant it. Previously.