Wayward House is a writing practice.
Long-form essays, a monthly digest, and books on geography, mathematics, and the modern energy economy. Written from the prairie edge of the Rockies, in public, slowly.
What's here
Essays. Long pieces, edited carefully. No engagement loop, no hot takes. They are meant to be re-read.
System Signals. Once a month, plain-text email with a single signal worth attention.
Library. Books in progress on computational geography, mathematics, data engineering, and systems thinking. Each book is its own Quarto deploy.
Who's writing
Paul Hobson — engineer, geographer, and longtime maintainer of small open-source things. Trained in the foothills, currently in Calgary.
The stack
This site is an Astro static build deployed to Cloudflare Pages. Books are Quarto projects deployed independently and routed under the apex domain. Search is Pagefind, indexed at build time.