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In recent times, society has developed a disliking or ostracizing towards performative actions. However, I think doing something performatively is crucial to developing habits, especially maintaining hard habits against our own will and training discipline. Here is a small anecdote. Ever since coming back from my trip to China where I indulged in at least two milk teas a day and an almost…
Some days I mindlessly scroll through my personal journal and find something that need not stay private for the joy of sharing. Today is one of those days. 2026-02-12 Exciting Human Interfaces. I miss innovative UX designs. I've been watching this talk: Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10 I'm only half way through, and every slide was provocative. I was most…
Re: ev-fae.quest/bear-blog-carnival-an-album-that-got-you-through-a-hard-time I've never participated in any Blog Carnival before, mostly because the last time I blogged consistently, I never overcame my writer's block as some of the themes aren't very easy to write. I've only recently gotten back to blogging and saw this post in the Bear Blog trending feed that caught my eye; this is a theme I…
when you yearn for a connection to the rest of the world, to your friends, to your old self, you reach for the phone. there's nothing on the phone though? you reach for the internet. but the internet is a choose-your-own-adventure platform. if you open the browser, you need to know where to go, what to search for, which web page to click on. if you open social media instead... and scroll endless…
It's been a while since I've written anything. Due to life events I've had to step away from maintaining my blogs and participating in the indie web space. For some reason, writing also went along with it. Off goes all the plans and new-year resolutions, writing challenges and all that jazz. I used to enjoy writing. English language and literature courses piqued my interest. It inspired me, nudged…
GenAI seems so convenient these days. There aren't even any ad banners in most of the interfaces... Unfortunately that will likely change very soon. However, enshittification can go much more than that. Consider GenAI Engine Optimization (tribute to SEO). Consider paid advertising that causes GenAI output to be biased a certain way just because companies paid the GenAI provider. We are now growing…
I didn't get to write reflections for week three of my July Experiment where I tried to limit my daily screen time. At the end of week four, procrastination kicked in yet again and I thought I'd wait a few more days and write a final reflection post at the end of July. Here it comes. I'll start off with reports of the screen time from weeks three and four. Spoiler: one of the reasons I skipped the…
It's mildly annoying that there's a set of apps on our phone that collectively, as a society, everyone needs to use and everyone knows everyone else can't really avoid unless they try really hard to. This include major browser apps, office suite apps and social media platforms, among others. The issue is, we all know that these apps can be unbearably annoying at times -- lack of handling of edge…
I found out about Manu's rather interesting experiment to set goals for himself for a month and write about his progress at the end of each week. In Manu's case, it was removing almost all forms of digital inputs from his life and replacing it with activities like reading and meditation. I decided to try doing something similar this July. Experimental July Experimental July: Week 1 Reflection The…
A few days ago I decided to set myself some goals to hopefully achieve this July and write about my progress every weekend. No manually extending any app's time limits Daily screen time of 2 hours for my phone Opt for a book, podcasts, or writing when I'm about to reach for my phone to procrastinate or "relax" I started on Thursday morning; so until today, it has now been 4 days. How did I do? I…