# Cailin Pitt

> Photography, software projects, and writing by Cailin Pitt.

## About

- [About](https://cailinpitt.com/about): About Cailin Pitt.

## Now

- [Now](https://cailinpitt.com/now): What Cailin Pitt is working on, thinking about, and listening to right now.

## Projects

- [Projects](https://cailinpitt.com/projects): Personal software projects I've been building.

## Setup

- [Uses](https://cailinpitt.com/uses): The hardware, software, services, and things Cailin Pitt uses day to day.

## About this site

- [Colophon](https://cailinpitt.com/colophon): How cailinpitt.com is built: a prerendered React site, seven Cloudflare Workers, and photos on R2.

## Blog

- [Big Tech Execs Are Clueless](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2026/9/23/big-tech-execs-are-clueless): Tech executives in big tech have no idea what they are doing
- [Gripes](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2026/9/12/gripes): A running list of personal gripes
- [City Boosters Annoy Me](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2026/9/7/city-boosters-annoy-me): You shouldn't love your home without also wanting to make it better
- [Using my transit card data to create a year in review experience](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2026/9/1/chicago-transit-authority-wrapped): Building an unofficial wrapped experience for the CTA
- [Shortlinks](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2026/8/28/shortlinks): I built a personal shortlink service – cailin.link
- [re: I turned my RSS feeds into an e-ink newspaper to stop reading on my phone](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2026/8/23/reading-rss-feeds-on-my-xteink-x4): Automatically sending new RSS feed entries to my Xteink X4
- [Atlanta has grown up](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2026/8/21/atlanta-has-grown-up): Atlanta has improved a lot in the two years I've been gone
- [Meta has ruined smart glasses public perception](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2026/8/20/meta-has-ruined-smart-glasses-public-perception): I'm frustrated that Meta has singlehandedly ruined the public perception of smart glasses
- [I love electric scooters](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2026/8/08/i-love-electric-scooters): A reflection on electric scooters.
- [Everyone is so annoying about AI](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2026/8/01/everyone-is-so-annoying-about-ai): Pleaseeeee shut up. I have a headache
- [Paramore — This Is Why (2023)](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2023/3/3/paramore-this-is-why-2023): Thoughts on Paramore’s 2023 album This Is Why.
- [Interpol — The Other Side of Make-Believe (2022)](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2022/7/18/interpol-the-other-side-of-make-believe-2022): Thoughts on Interpol’s 2022 album The Other Side of Make-Believe.
- [Ebikes completely changed how I get around](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2021/8/8/ebikes-completely-changed-how-i-get-around): How ebikes changed my relationship with bicycling, transportation, and getting around without a car.
- [Leaving Cities](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2020/9/4/leaving-cities): Thoughts on leaving cities, personal change, and the pressure to justify where we choose to live.
- [Lost Cincinnati: Lincoln Park](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2020/4/25/lost-cincinnati-lincoln-park): The history of Cincinnati’s lost Lincoln Park and the urban renewal project that erased it.
- [Midwest Yearnings](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2020/4/8/midwest-yearnings): A New Yorker’s evolving relationship with Midwestern cities, public transit, and urban life.
- [2020 Vision: West End](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2020/3/21/2020-vision-west-end): How Cincinnati’s Kenyon-Barr urban renewal project displaced the West End to build Queensgate and Interstate 75.
- [Kanye West and God's Redemptive Grace](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2019/9/30/kanye-west-and-gods-redemptive-grace): A reflection on Kanye West, Christianity, and the difficult idea of redemptive grace.
- [Munich, Germany](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2019/8/28/munich-germany): Photographs from Munich, Germany.
- [Paris, France](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2019/8/24/paris-france): Photographs from Paris, France.
- [London, England](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2019/8/20/london-england): Photographs from London, England.
- [2018 in Music](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2018/12/6/2018-in-music): A reflection on the people who listened to the music I wrote and recorded in 2018.
- [Hungary + Croatia](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2018/8/13/budapest-hungary-split-croatia): Photographs from Budapest, Hungary, and Split, Croatia.
- [Cleveland](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2018/6/29/cleveland): Photographs from Cleveland, Ohio.
- [What Would Jesus Do?](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2017/1/29/what-would-jesus-do): A personal struggle with Christianity, American politics, and a church increasingly disconnected from the world.
- [2016 in Review](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2016/12/30/2016-in-review): A photographic look back at 2016.
- [untitled](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2016/7/8/untitled): A reflection on the killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile and the fear that followed.
- [We are all terrible at addressing sexual assault](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2016/6/5/we-are-all-terrible-at-addressing-sexual-assault): A response to Brock Turner’s sentencing and the institutional failures surrounding sexual assault.
- [I accidentally created a mean Twitter bot](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2016/4/23/i-accidentally-created-a-mean-twitter-bot): What happened when I trained a Markov-chain Twitter bot on my own posting history.
- [I Am Ashamed To Be A Buckeye](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2016/4/7/i-am-ashamed-to-be-a-buckeye): A response to Ohio State’s treatment of student activists during the 2016 Reclaim OSU sit-in.
- [California](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2016/3/18/california): Photographs from California.
- [Why I'm Writing in Haney/Henry for USG](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2016/2/24/why-im-writing-in-haneyhenry-for-usg): Why I supported a write-in campaign for Ohio State’s Undergraduate Student Government.
- [Coldplay is the greatest band of all time](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2016/2/7/coldplay-is-the-greatest-band-of-all-time): A joyful defense of Coldplay after their Super Bowl 50 halftime performance.
- [Dear Christians: step out of the bubble](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2016/1/31/dear-christians-step-out-of-the-bubble): A call for Christians to move beyond the church bubble and engage honestly with injustice and suffering.
- [I am a minority](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2015/11/20/i-am-a-minority): A personal reflection on race, identity, and discussing racism as a Black man in America.
- [America's 45th 2015 mass shooting happened, and we're not going to do anything about it](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2015/10/1/americas-45th-2015-mass-shooting-happened-and-were-not-going-to-do-anything-about-it): A reflection on America’s recurring mass shootings and its unwillingness to confront gun violence.
- [Create](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2015/8/20/create): A reflection on creativity, photography, music, and the human need to make things.
- [Fail fast. Fail often. Fail forward.](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2015/7/7/fail-fast-fail-often-fail-forward): Lessons about experimentation, failure, and agile work from an internship at GE Aviation.
- [Transient](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2015/6/22/transient): adjective lasting only for a short time; impermanent.
- [I fear for my life](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2015/6/18/i-fear-for-my-life): A personal reflection on racism, fear, and the Charleston church shooting.
- [Seasons](https://cailinpitt.com/blog/2015/5/23/seasons): A reflection on life’s changing seasons and learning to accept difficult periods as temporary.