I'm Phil and I have a web site. Now I also have a pod cast where I talk to my friends about their web sites, or web sites they like. Sometimes we also talk about internet culture, information work, and all the ways that technology intersects with daily life. You can listen to as many episodes as you want, for free!
008: scottsmitelli.com with smitelli (Scott Smitelli)
Host Phil interviews writer Scott Smitelli about his early internet experiences, programming passion, and navigating moral lines in a careless age.
15 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
007: domesticatedincels.neocities.org with sarah.jk.jk (Sarah-Jane Katanning)
Host Phil interviews artist Sarah-Jane Katanning about maintaining artistic integrity and self-actualization in the digital age.
7 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT
006: daniel.observer with danielthedaring (Daniel Patterson)
"The rewarding experience of seeing a bug on a flower of a plant that you planted, that's a really special thing. I'm a part of the ecosystem."
Web Developer slash naturalist Daniel drops by the Cast to talk about using the nascent internet to post about Mortal Kombat, being known as a "webmaster", discovering a spiritual community on Twitter, finding the other people who love "birds and bugs and weird little plants", hiding easter eggs in web sites, and using the web to find your passion and your people.
Daniel's web site is daniel.observer (https://daniel.observer). Follow Daniel on Mastodon at @danielthedaring@mastodon.online (https://mastodon.online/@danielthedaring).
Phil, along with his partners, will make a good web site for you at Tiger Pajamas (dot com) (https://tigerpajamas.com/).
Visit phil's web site, the coolest web site on the entire internet, at phils-web-site.net (https://phils-web-site.net/).
Music: Out of Tune by Bad Custer. Phil is one fourth of Bad Custer. Listen to more of our music at badcuster.com
4 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT
005: pinterest.com with squeegeetreemagee (Luree)
"You want to get into a flow state when you're in your slop."
Joining the show this time, live on our anniversary, is my damn wife. We cast our gaze back to our most formative internet moments, remember when Facebook was just a book of faces, and Luree recounts her discovery of the occulted world of Butt Plug Pinterest.
Visit phil's web site, the coolest web site on the entire internet, at phils-web-site.net (https://phils-web-site.net/).
Music: Out of Tune by Bad Custer. Phil is one fourth of Bad Custer. Listen to more of our music at badcuster.com
23 Jul 2025TRANSCRIPT
004: mirawelner.com with pi_chef (Mira Welner)
“That’s it, I’m not dealing with this WordPress bullcrap anymore. I’m going to make my own site. What’s the most self-hosted I can get, away from all this tomfoolery?”
Mad Scientist (Biomedical Machine Learning Researcher) Mira Welner drops by the ‘Cast to talk about hosting a ludicrously cool web site on a Raspberry Pi. When your website lives in your bedroom, you have maximum control over your infrastructure, but also your roommate tripping over the cable can take your online presence down at a critical moment.
Along the way we discuss how Millenials and Gen Z approach technology, finding a job in 2025, and how academics and tech bros are different kinds of crazy.
Mira's web site is mirawelner.com (https://mirawelner.com/).
Phil, along with his partners, will make a good web site for you at Tiger Pajamas (dot com) (https://tigerpajamas.com/).
Visit phil's web site, the coolest web site on the entire internet, at phils-web-site.net (https://phils-web-site.net/).
Music: Out of Tune by Bad Custer. Phil is one fourth of Bad Custer. Listen to more of our music at badcuster.com
3 Jul 2025TRANSCRIPT
003: 8ofpentacles.com with leelee1624
Ashley McQuaid, a web designer, recounts her experiences as a Neopets microcelebrity and reflects on her design process, discussing the joys and sorrows of working on computers in an interview with Phil.
29 Jan 2025TRANSCRIPT
002: ludic.mataroa.blog w/ Ludic
“Redditors are scum and they belong in prison.”
Pugilistic wordsmith Nik "Ludic" Suresh hops on the Cast to answer the question: Is blogging so fucking back? What follows is a spirited conversation about his chosen platform, unlocking the secrets of Extreme Networking, getting accused of hacking Hacker News, why Squarespace sucks ass, and, most importantly, comic book movies.
Ludic's web site is ludic.mataroa.blog (https://ludic.mataroa.blog). Learn more about his company, Hermit Tech, at hermit-tech.com.
Visit phil's web site, the coolest web site on the entire internet, at phils-web-site.net. Phil and his friends will make a good web site for you at Tiger Pajamas (dot com).
6 Dec 2023
001: taalumot.space w/ תַּעֲלֻמוֹת
"I am not supposed to pretend to be Millenial Gray. I am supposed to be as loud as I want."
Taalumot talks to Phil about juggling multiple online personas, crafting a website that would eventually unify his online presences, and the challenges and rewards of moderating an online community.
Taalumot's web site is taalumot.space. Check out the Householders membership program (https://taalumot.space/membership) for acess to a private messageboard.
Phil's web site is phils-web-site.net.
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008: scottsmitelli.com with smitelli (Scott Smitelli)
Published 24 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And that is... overwhelmingly brutalist uh it is just full windows on all sides so you know boy direct sunset light is beaming into your face um like all of the lighting is very very uh very very cool uh cool blue point light led that just It reflects off of my keyboard. Whose idea is this? […]
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