Bloglog

In the playa, looking west at the city. Hello world. I’m writing this on the heels of a week out in the desert at Burning Man: fully offline and thoroughly dusty. In the days since Savannah and I have returned to Boulder, we’ve been unpacking, cleaning, and de-muddifying all our stuff. Simultaneously I’ve been sorting through my thoughts and experiences, processing everything that I did and saw out there - and there’s a lot!

I haven't had much to do in recent weekends, and it's made me once again mull at length about the . On uneventful weekends like this it feels like time crawl...

There are moments when you realize you are living in the future. Watching a driverless car pull up to a stop sign, front seat empty, a handless steering wheel starting to turn. FaceTiming a family …

Yesterday evening I was laying by the fire and reading a book. It was my first evening off in a while; I had shut down my computer before heading for dinner, and I was thoroughly enjoying myself. At one point, after finishing the section I was reading, I remembered about

I made this: The internet used to be fun I feel like more people these days are starting to reject the notion that the internet is made up of Big Websites that represent Big Companies that are trying to take either the attention or the money of their visitors while adding minimal value to the lives and well-being of those visitors. Because a lot of us remember when the internet was mostly just fun, and the good parts of the old internet were by and large created by real individual humans who had no motives other than to explore the internet and just put stuff out there that was interesting and fun and random.

The web loves data. Data about you. Data about who you are, about what you do, what you love doing, what you love eating. Data about where you go and …

Writing, blogging, life, tech and mental health with a philosophical/psychological slant

I keep thinking about that 100 years of hosting thing. Without some fancy setup like that, this is how it normally works: You pay your hosting bill, you pay to renew your domains, and you stay up t…

It has been a while since I wrote about blogging, but I was lucky to get a fresh crop of new followers recently, so it prompted me to think about blogging in 2023, eleven years after I started. Som…

The way my link blog works is like this: I save an article, website, or book I thought was interesting to a database in Notion using

Denise Lu, New York Times Magazine (via Rusty Foster): I was still using iTunes until 2019, when Apple decided to sunset the app and replace it with a new media player called Music (not to be confused with Apple Music, the streaming service). The appeal of the app remains the same: a media player where […]

There’s a style of reactionary meme that takes a photo of like, empty store-shelves or a trash-strewn street, and applies the image macro “This is what Commu...

Discover the surprising wisdom in embracing 'dumbness.' Learn from a remarkable grandmother-in-law who mastered the art of asking for help by appearing clueless. Explore the benefits of reducing cognitive load, saving time, and focusing on your priorities. Uncover when to apply this strategy and when it's best to rely on your expertise.

Nobody cares about your blog, but you should keep writing!

Dealing with spam the fun way.

It’s the closest thing we’ve got.

I'm all for manufacturing an emotion. Maybe that sounds strange (), but it's something that I've always found helpful when I'm in a rough place. If I'm u...

Few phrases are better known than “prevention is better than cure,” and its message seems irrefutable. Prevention is the favoured answer to the accumulating woes of the NHS: if people don’t get sic…

A delightful sense of slippage occurs when you can’t decide if something is brilliant or awful.

Dug through the PDF of all the new features coming in macOS Sonoma on the 26th. This is an exciting release for me because I’ve seen multiple people describe it as boring, and the thing with boring macOS releases is they (usually) spend more time polishing things up while adding little quality of life features. Widgets on the desktop and the return of screensavers (why?!) is the big headliner this year, but it’s not 2005 anymore so those don’t excite me.

Listen to Jim: Get a personal domain and start all your side projects as a subdomain of that top-level domain. Do not buy a custom domain for every little idea you have. Save your money, give your …

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

Rediscovering the joy of good conversation made me realize just how bad it is out there. So of course I turned to Guy Debord for insights.

Posted on Friday 22 Sep 2023. 924 words, 9 links. By Matt Webb.

This is the 4th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Brian …

It's even worse than it appears..

If you filter out websites with ads, trackers, and noise, what of the Internet remains?