9 May 2026
Building a virtual garage for hobby projects
I wanted my GitHub Pages hobby projects on-domain without a complicated workflow; Vercel rewrites turned out to be the cleanest path.
Hello.
I am Ken Hawkins.
I help complex organizations turn their digital presence from information graveyards into measurable systems that work for human and machine audiences alike.
I ship systems that deliver impact. I understand technology and human organizational dynamics equally — and how to make them work together. Twenty years with UN agencies, international science, and media have sharpened that.
Recent writing
6 May 2026
My daily routine assumes the internet survives the disaster
A new UNDRR report maps the disaster nobody is preparing for: the failure of digital infrastructure that has no analogue fallback.
3 May 2026
Eye-tracking heatmaps in your browser, no lab needed
Stop guessing whether users will notice your CTA. Foveacast predicts attention from a screenshot, entirely in your browser, nothing uploaded.
29 Apr 2026
Stop converting SVG text to outlines
Converting SVG text to outlines breaks accessibility, search, and translation. SVGOMG-Font embeds a subsetted font instead, in your browser.
23 Apr 2026
Why 'reviewed' should be a protected verb
A newsroom AI policy that closes the quote-attribution loophole and treats 'reviewed' as a protected verb.
22 Apr 2026 | Project note
Designing analytics infrastructure that measures audience quality, not just traffic
24+ websites, no existing benchmarks, and a fundamental question: how do you know if the right people are finding your content?
20 Apr 2026 | Project note
Putting GA4 where the work happens: an in-browser analytics overlay and its MCP bridge
Content teams shouldn't have to leave the page to learn how it performs, and neither should AI agents.
20 Apr 2026
Let AI worry about the code, you worry about the work
Cultivating LLM productivity requires comfort with the vernacular of code, not the writing of it.
8 Apr 2026
EmDash won't beat WordPress. Drupal just needs to wait.
EmDash doesn't need to win to matter, and Drupal's quiet modernization work means it doesn't either.
8 Apr 2026
How to write one skills for both Claude Code and GitHub Copilot CLI
Tips on where the shared appproach doesn't share, and plugin.json gotchas that break Claude Code silently.
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