Bloglog

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

I went to a friend's (parents') housewarming on Sunday morning. Since most of our parents moved to my hometown for the education system, now that we've gradu...

Apple: With Visual Look Up, you can identify and learn about popular landmarks, plants, pets, and more that appear in your photos and videos in the Photos app. Visual Look Up can also identify food in a photo and suggest related recipes. Meal identification is new to iOS 17, and it is a feature I […]

Just days before Andy revamped his (more) Modern CSS Reset, Dave and I were line-by-lining it on ShopTalk Show. Mouthblogging is fun and all, but so is Writemouthblogging, known colloquially as &#8…

A few days ago, I wrote about how . So I set up a list that, when I look back on it now, is very random and I would like to ask myself what the frick I was t...

When you discover you don’t see pictures in your head.

It's even worse than it appears..

The whole point of me setting up this "notes" section is so I can write stream-of-consciousness short notes and publish them freely and frequently. But I cannot seem to overcome my fear of...

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the juxtaposition of mental health, eudaemonia or flourishing in the classical sense, and the sort of “mental health movement” that’s a heavily marketed form of …

I'd like to travel more, write a bit more, and display those geolocated blog posts on an interactive map.

Over the weekend, I went and wandered around a town a little bit out of the way with a friend of mine. It's a pretty small town () but my friend and I reall...

As somebody with no real ability to visualize, I am fascinated by the fact that other people can actually see things in their imagination: the existence of an actual mind’s eye. (Those of us …

It's a useful feature - but a problem for the ecosystem

Working solo has its difficulties. For one, my income is somewhat tied to my productivity, and my productivity highly correlates to my state of mind. This is...

(been feeling recently, enough to want to skip my therapy session today, but i'm glad i finally got this behemoth of a trip recap out of the way.) ...

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

My lab results came back today. They are, how do I put it... . I've regressed by pretty much every metric, and the worst part is I don't even know why. Wa...

A friend washed off all of the Playa mud and shared his experience of Burning Man 2023, Rain Edition. What was great? He arrived on Thursday before the official event began and enjoyed a week of &#…

Posted on Friday 6 Oct 2023. 738 words, 6 links. By Matt Webb.

This is the 6th edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Andrea …

An invitation to reply to Pablo Morales' reading list.

I'm getting brunch with my high school Spanish teacher tomorrow! I haven't seen her since August, and we don't talk nearly as much as we used to (pret...

(here's your as you make your way through this double post. life sucks but nina sure doesn't, thank god) Work has been stressful this week, but not for t...

Being a vegan for 10 years has been a rollercoaster ride of emotions. On the one hand, I feel proud of myself for making a positive impact on the world and the animals we share it with. But on the …