my strange little home on internet
halvar.co is the gravitational center of my public creative work. My essays live here. My newsletters are published here. I document projects here – design work, photography, my research interests, and so on. If I someday write a book or sell any of my artwork, those will be available here, as well.
Me
I’ve been writing for decades. Mostly toiling in anonymity as a consultant and copywriter for renewable energy firms. I’ve also worked in publishing (as a back-of-the-book indexer), in tech (first, IT; later, as co-foundeder of a web-development firm), and science (research tech in university labs and ecological fieldwork experiments).
Halvar is my nom-de-guerre. It was my grandfather’s middle name before he Anglicized it upon arriving in the United States. It means something like “rock guardian”, in the sense of a defender of a fortification (probably). It’s from the Old Norse name Hallvarðr, from hallr (“stone”) and varðr or vǫrðr (“guardian”).
I like it, so I use it.
Collophon
The site itself is cobbled together using Hugo (a static site generator), GitHub, CloudFlare Pages for hosting, and Buttondown for email.