Wonders of Web Weaving podcast annotated transcript

James was kind enough to have me on his podcast, Wonders of Web Weaving. The audio version will give you the best experience — go listen over there — but if you’re more of a text person, I’ve lightly edited and annotated the transcript below (originally transcribed by Zachary Kai). I’ve broken it up with topical headers, made some addendums / corrections as sidenotes, pulled out some quotes I liked, and added additional links to related blog posts I’ve written. Recorded late June 2026. My blogging eras James 0:12 — I like to start at the beginning of someone’s journey, so: when did you start blogging? Tracy 0:21 — My absolute very first website, I made in seventh grade, this was 1997. There was an after-school thing, and I made a horrendous Monet fan site. I don’t know if it was published to the web, but I credit it with setting it early in my mind that websites were a thing I could do. I had different websites on and off through high school. my college blog When I went to college (I…