About

I’m Zach Phillips, a dad in Philadelphia who makes films, builds tools, and writes things down. This site is my place on the web: little posts, longer essays, photographs, and the full archive of everything I used to post elsewhere.

It’s called The Little Rebellion because most of what matters gets done in small, daily, slightly stubborn acts. Writing a paragraph. Taking one photograph. Keeping your own words on your own domain. The Great Rebellion is the argument at full volume. This is the quiet version, practiced daily.

The argument itself fits in a breath: for fifty years, people adapted to computers. Now computers can adapt to people. And the question under all of it, the one that actually gets me out of bed: what if you could do your greatest work while still being a person? Every time we learn how the people we idolize made the amazing thing, we learn they killed themselves to do it. It was never humane, the way they had to live. I think that deal just expired. I spend my working days building the replacement, at the Kitchen for clients and in the projects that came from me. This site is where I write it down and show my work.

Everything I build, I publish the recipe for. The recipes are free; hiring me is optional. Most of them are still write-ups in progress (I build faster than I document, like everyone), and they land on the Pantry as they’re ready.

Everything here is plain files generating plain HTML, built to be hosted anywhere and to outlast whatever platform is currently fashionable. The originals live with me, on paper and in files I hold. Copies go wherever people already are.

If you want to reach me, I’m zach@thekitchen.co. It’s really me on the other end.