Short one. One the way to the airport I left my phone with both sims in a rental car. It's probably stuck in that country for a couple of months. The flights were delayed, there's a heatwave, so generally it was a long and frustrating day and I didn't have any food in. Have you ever tried to pay for anything online in this situation? The EU makes it all but impossible. Some places only accepted…
Someone asked me today why I use Bear Blog when I generally selfhost everything. Mostly it was wanting to support indie developers (I also pay for Mataroa and Paper Website even though I wasn't actively using either of them). Partly it was because I wanted to have somewhere to write without thinking about hosting it, even though static websites are one of the easiest things to host. But I was…
It's been looking for half an hour or so that there was a storm coming so I made a coffee and sat outside waiting. Storms have always given me the urge to be outside, to feel nature. Storms give me that urge more than a beautiful day does - maybe it's because they are so fleeting. The chance passes so quickly. I saw a post a couple of weeks ago from someone who is giving up being online. He's now…
Just a quick one. I'm tired recently. Home life and work life are converging and it's difficult to find the moments to rest enough to get back to baseline. So of course, I hate my job and I'm sick of it. But really, I'm just tired. Yeah it can be infuriating sometimes - dealing with pointless deadlines, people using AI all the time and forcing everyone else to as well, dealing with other people…
I didn't really want to post much about AI because as Don Draper says, "it's like politics, religion, or sex - why talk about it?" The point being that everyone has their opinion on it, and no talking will change that. But unfortunately, just like politics, religion and sex it seems it's all anyone talks about. More and more often, when I hear someone talking about why they dislike AI, they…
This is a work in process and more a brainstorm than something ready to present. I don't want to deal with the constant connection that's default now. I don't want my writing, working, relaxing or thinking to be always connected. I want to be able to read, watch, or listen to music without it triggering an update somewhere in a database that I started listening to a certain song at a certain time.…
One of the things that draws me to the indieweb - to blogging, RSS feeds and old fashioned webrings - is that it feels like a small piece of the old Internet that is long gone. A slice of nostalgia. Of course it's just LARPing in a way. The static sites with perfect SEO, fully knowing the success of the Internet and the possibility of making money here, can have nothing in common with the old…
Recently I've been thinking a lot about self-regulation. In the book Prometheus Rising, the author says that our brains can generally be explained as having two operating modes: The Thinker and The Feeler. The central idea is that The Feeler acts based on emotion and instinct - fully believing whatever it feels to be true - while The Thinker justifies based on logic and deduction. The Feeler came…